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Harvey Williams
hails from Newlyn, just outside Penzance, at the western
tip of Cornwall. He made his first recordings over ten
years ago, using the pseudonym Another Sunny Day. Under
this name he released half a dozen singles on Sarah
Records - including two of the first ten releases on the
label (one of these being the infamous and much
misunderstood Anorak City flexidisc) - and
picked up a couple of Single of the Week awards in
the weekly music press along the way. All of these
releases were later collected by Sarah onto the
best-selling London Weekend compilation. There was
also a one-off 7" on Bob Stanley's Caff label,
featuring covers of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's Genetic
Engineering and The Bee Gee's Kilburn Towers.
After his fourth Another Sunny Day release, Harvey joined fellow Sarah act The Field Mice as lead-guitarist, keyboardist and occasional vocalist. And then, after The Field Mice split in 1991, Harvey played a similar role in the new 5-piece line-up of another Sarah act, Blueboy. It was also around this time that, for his solo work, he decided to drop not just his trademark guitar sound, in favour of a much more keyboard-based approach, but also the Another Sunny Day moniker. In 1994 the mini-album Rebellion - which Melody Maker refused to review on the grounds that it was only 15 minutes long - became the first work to be released under his own name, and to demonstrate this new musical direction. |
