Sunday Driver
Sunday Driver are a UK group formed in 2000 and based around Cambridge and London. The line-up includes Kat Arney. The band develops a fusion sound that brings together English folk and classical Indian influences, and they become associated with the UK steampunk scene in 2009.
Background and style
The group’s name comes from a gene, SYD, which is commonly found in mice. Their material includes songs that were partly composed by lead singer Chandrika “Chandy” Nath while she is monitoring ice floes near the South Pole on a field trip in Antarctica for the British Antarctic Survey.
Activity and performances
Sunday Driver receive an Arts Council grant in 2004, which pays for training workshops with the sitarist Baluji Shrivastav. In 2009 they appear as the opening act at the first UK Steampunk Festival at The Lawn Asylum in Lincoln, and they also open the Cambridge Folk Festival that same year.
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