Song:Here's Where The Story Ends
Album:Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
The British group The Sundays had success in 1990 when the video for Here's Where The Story Ends was in heavy rotation on MTV. Unfortunately, they soon had record company problems. They never recovered from that. They had potential to be a lot bigger. Lead singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin met when they were students at Bristol University. They wrote all the songs together and they are also married with two children. Gavurin says that he wanted to write songs since he was a child. So they formed The Sundays with Bristol students Paul Brindley on bass and Patrick Hannan on drums and they moved to London. They sent out demos and signed with Rough Trade Records. They had distribution in the US with Geffen. They released the single Can't Be Sure in 1989. Legendary BBC DJ John Peel liked it and that gave them a big boost. Their debut album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic was released in 1990. The album sold a million copies worldwide. Here's Where The Story Ends did very well in the US when MTV put the video in heavy rotation. And The Sundays toured the US. But it all came crashing down when Rough Trade went bankrupt in 1991. The problem was Reading, Writing and Arithmetic was no longer available in England. And it remained unavailable until 1996. The Sundays signed a new British deal with Parlophone. They were still on Geffen in the US. They also started managing themselves which took time away from songwriting. The 1992 album Blind did OK but it didn't do as well as the first album. Then Gavurin and Harriet got married and had their first child in 1995. They finally released the album Static & Silence in 1997. It did OK and The Sundays could have continued. But they chose not to. Harriet had another child in 1999. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is available as a budget CD. It looks to me like they soured on the music business and choose to live off of The Sundays royalties. Comedian David Baddiel is pals with Gavurin and he says they still write and record. But they have no plans to release anything. He says they are paranoid about this. It reminds me of Lauryn Hill who does the same thing. It's unusual not to mention wasteful but not unprecedented. Here's the video for Here's Where The Story Ends by The Sundays.
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