Getting to know The Sunday Estate
The Sunday Estate are a five piece from Sydney that have recently dropped their new single. We asked them to tell us more:
We are… The Sunday Estate! We’ve been playing together for the last couple years, originally just for fun. We only started taking things seriously in the last year or so, when we all realised we liked it a little more than a hobby.
We’re from all around Sydney. Tom’s from Western Sydney, and Dave is from the Northern Beaches. We’ve recently all moved to the Inner West – it’s where we put our roots down and started to practise, write, and perform as much as possible, which has been excellent.
We all sort of drifted together through mutual friends or uni, but we stayed together because we’re all huge music fans (dorks), and everything about the songwriting, performing, and production fascinated and excited us. It grabbed a hold of us as a collective pretty quickly.
Pray For Rain is… our newest single. We wrote it in late 2019 when there was a lot of discourse surrounding the government’s inaction on climate change. I (Conor) had never really thought about dying or death as a concept until this point in time when I really started to wonder what was going to happen to us. What if the world is ending? It was an anxiety-inducing time. ‘Pray for Rain’ tows the line between being incredibly scared about dying, but also realising that if we stand up together and make our voices heard, we can be a catalyst for change.
Home is… a big existential question! Obviously, we’ve all got our individual homes scattered through Sydney’s Inner West, but as a band, we spend most of our time together practising at our rehearsal space in Glebe. I guess we consider that our collective ‘home’ for the time being. One day we might get a sharehouse together and build our own little studio, who knows?!?
We spend too much time… listening to The National. In the last few months we collectively got really into them, seemingly at random. Now we’re all unapologetically sad, middle aged, and from New York on the inside.
We’ve never… had the chance to play a festival. It’s something we’ve all been itching to do for the longest time. Being on a festival circuit sounds like the dream – so many cool stories we’ve heard have come from bands playing Laneway, Primavera, or Splendour. Plus, you get to hang out with your idols and a whole host of inspiring people from around the world.
The past 12 months have been… a huge learning curve. It’s been tough and we’ve had to adapt to the many changes, but some great things have also come out of it. We played some of our favourite shows, and also recently signed to our record label, Mirror Records.
It might surprise people to learn that… collectively we have a really wide array of degrees. One relates to music, the rest are in Psychology, English Literature, Journalism, and Political Science, with a couple enrolled in postgrad degrees at the moment.
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THE SUNDAY ESTATE – TOUR DATES
Thursday 18 March | Waywards, Sydney NSW – early
Thursday 18 March | Waywards, Sydney NSW – late
Keep up to date with the band on Insta.
Interview by Bobby Townsend.
