The Sunshine Underground

The eureka moment in the making of The Sunshine Underground’s second album Nobody’s Coming To Save You arrived when the band ensconced themselves in a cottage in the Scottish countryside in a location that was beyond remote. Given the obvious benefits of being in such an isolated spot, the four decided to crank the distortion pedals. In other words, it was time for The Sunshine Underground – singer/guitarist Craig Wellington, guitarist Stuart Jones, bassist Daley Smith and drummer Matthew Gwilt – to get heavy.

The four first banded together in their schooldays, relocating from Telford and Shrewsbury to follow Gwilt to Leeds where he was moving to study. “It was gonna split the band up if he went and we didn’t,” Jones points out. “So we all followed him up there and then he dropped out! But we never really looked back. The city’s been good to us.” To the extent, it turns out, that chants of “Yorkshire! Yorkshire!” can be often be heard at The Sunshine Underground’s north-eastern gigs. “We haven’t got the heart to tell them,” the guitarist points out with a smile.

Doubtless the music contained within Nobody’s Coming To Save You will be received with the same wide-eyed enthusiasm. “We wanted to make sure that our second album was a step-up from the first one,” says Wellington. “We’ve slogged our guts out making it and we hope people will love it.”

That much is almost a given. Nobody’s Coming To Save You finds The Sunshine Underground on dizzyingly impressive form and will likely provide one of the key soundtracks to 2010.