Sun & House

This Nottingham, England-based outfit were grouped with other English bands of the late 90s, including Gomez, the Unbelievable Truth and Witness, owing to their perceived musical and lyrical earnestness. This serious image gained them the rather derogatory and unrepresentative ‘stool rock' tag. Songwriter Gavin Clarke originally met film director Shane Meadows when both were working in dead-end jobs at the Alton Towers leisure park. Several years later, Meadows contacted Clarke to provide songs for the soundtrack to his acclaimed low-budget film, Small Time. Clarke quickly for...