London’s multi-cultural outfit kick start the 1960s psych pop revival

London’s multi-cultural outfit kick start the 1960s psych pop revival

14 February, 2008 | 4.29AM

• Written by: Tunnel Rat
• Filed under: Music News : brikabrak, sunny day sets fire

Sunny Day Sets Fire serve up their tasty blend of lush, richly textured, epic, psychedelic, sunshine pop this April, bringing the Summer time a little closer to home.

‘End Of The Road /Lack Of View’ is the first double A side single taken off the band’s hotly tipped debut album, ‘Summer Palace’ and it looks set to sizzle!

A veritable united nations, SDSF have five members all hailing from four different countries with two singles and an EP under their belt in the past two years; all leading up to one very anticipated debut album.

Multi-instrumentalists Mauro and Onyee met while working as ushers at a London repertoire cinema. The two shared a vision of theatre, art and music and when Mauro began writing a collection of ambitious sunshine psych songs, mutual friend Max was asked to join the group. The founding members of Sunny Day Sets Fire (the name came simply from an internet band name generator) began experimenting with every possible trick to realise the impossible task of performing music written for a small orchestra.

Over the next two years, the original members released a succession of singles across Europe, the US and Australia and saw the incremental additions of Ed (bass) and Matthew (drums). Collectively hailing from Italy, Hong Kong, Sardinia, England and Canada; Sunny Day Sets Fire built a nest in East London and began working on their debut album, Summer Palace, throughout 2007.

The band will be touring throughout Europe and the US in 2008, supporting the release of Summer Palace, the upcoming singles and their ‘Stranger’ (another track from the album) remix EP featuring remixes by the likes of CSS, Diplo, XXXCHANGE (Spank Rock) and the Cool Kids.

It’s enough to make you burn your passport and declare yourself a converted citizen of the world.

End Of The Road will be released on Brikabrak Records on the 14th of April.

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