Transcribed by Craig Parker
There can't be many bands who command the same kind of respect as the Sundays after just two moderately successful albums. Nonetheless this is the situation in which the Sundays find themselves. When they first appeared in 1989 they were critical darlings, sounding like a cross between the Smiths and the Cocteau Twins they released just one single 'Can't Be Sure' which bizarrely only reached Number 45. Their debut album took a year in coming, but no new singles were released, rumour had it the band had no other song to put on the b-side. Two years later they returned with a new album 'Blind' and a second single 'Goodbye' which made Number 27 but yet again failed to translate their critical adoration into significant sales. Thankfully Parlophone records are more patient than most, a full five years on from their last release the Sundays have a new album ready and if this single is anything to go by it should be their best yet. The gentle 'Summertime' could hardly miss and it charges up the charts to give them their biggest hit single ever. We should enjoy it while it lasts, if their previous form is anything to go by it could be seven years until we hear from them again.