GettyImages-1327646393.jpg© Getty Images Ethereal: Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays performs in Brussels in 1990 (Getty Images) ...

In 1990, Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin of The Sundays put out their first album, Reading, Writing And Arithmetic. Full of crisp, jangly pop—driven by Wheeler's sweetly lilting vocals and ...

Having essentially retired from music so that singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin could focus on raising their two children, they rarely give interviews and never release new material.

The band’s mercurial frontwoman Harriet Wheeler, her auburn hair piled atop her head, lilted through a run of pretty earworms that sounded like The Smiths if they were fronted by Bjork.

The band’s mercurial frontwoman Harriet Wheeler, her auburn hair piled atop her head, lilted through a run of pretty earworms that sounded like The Smiths if they were fronted by Bjork.

The Sundays seemed to vanish just before Christmas in 1997. That day, on 11 December, a 900-strong crowd in Islington’s Union Chapel stood unaware that they were witnessing the final public ...

Instead they present abstract images of ammonite fossils, ladybirds and pears. Cult classics: Paul Brindley, David Gavurin, Harriet Wheeler and Patrick Hannan of The Sundays in 1990 (Getty Images) ...

Instead they present abstract images of ammonite fossils, ladybirds and pears. Cult classics: Paul Brindley, David Gavurin, Harriet Wheeler and Patrick Hannan of The Sundays in 1990 (Getty Images) ...