October 2008 Sunday Driver celebrated the completion of their debut album "In the City of Dreadful Night" at the Junction, Cambridge, with a night of music, comedy, poetry and burlesque.
Our hosts, having ensured we were exquisitely warmed up, delivered their knock out blow with aplomb. Producing the kind of Acid-Folk, Raga, and World Music with just a hint of Acker Bilk fusion that they do, they’ve every right to present a new work in such a lavish manner. I’ve seen them heave that massive harp around many an inappropriately cramped venue; moving forward suits them well and they fill this larger space quite magnificently. Chandrika Nath is a commanding presence as band leader whose voice never falters; the instrumentalists cook like a band that have taken their chemistry to another level.
/Danny Neill Music-Zine
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Much more than a mere album launch, this was an immersion into the strange and original world of Sunday Driver, whose songs transported us from London to Calcutta via the Antarctic, all with a melodramatic Victorian twist. Performance poetry (rap meets Edgar Allan Poe, courtesy of Mr Beyonder) and burlesque (a titillating take on a Grimm tale, courtesy of Tallulah Mockingbird) popped up between (and occasionally within) musical sets from Daniel Neal, Gabby Young and her Other Animals and Sunday Driver themselves......
/Craig Baxter - Playwright
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.......Compered by a suffragette (Helen Arney) on an opium-den of a set and populated by a cast of Kipling-era personages, it was as colourful and varied an evening's entertainment as you could hope to find anywhere, anytime. But it all somehow made mad, metaphorical sense, blossoming extravagantly out from Sunday Driver's singular songs (played on multiple instruments) on such subjects as the London Underground, a street in Calcutta, rats, spiders, squirrels and snow.
/Craig Baxter
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