Sunbirds - Cool to Be Kind (2020)

The Beautiful South founder member Dave Hemingway has a new band Sunbirds and this is their debut album Cool To Be Kind on the independent label Nectar Records. Having retired from the live scene at the back end of 2016, Dave has been keeping busy with guitarist, songwriter and collaborator Phil Barton, with Cool To Be Kind signalling the arrival of the new band, new songs and a new sound. Produced by cult producer Teo Miller, who was responsible for Daisy Chainsaw’s breakthrough single Love Your Money and subsequently worked with The Pretenders, Placebo and Robert Plant, the album captures truthful, open-hearted, funny and sometimes painfully honest songs, turning the page to a new chapter for Dave Hemingway and The Beautiful South story.