The Sundays - Summertime

What this video is

Released in September 1997, 'Summertime' arrived as the lead single from The Sundays' third and final studio album Static & Silence — their first release in five years following 1992's Blind. The song represented a mature, mellowed evolution of the band's jangle pop sound, with Wheeler and Gavurin citing influences including Van Morrison, Frank Sinatra, and 1960s French film music. The music video exists within the…

Why it matters

The Sundays were central architects of British jangle pop, and 'Summertime' stands as their commercial apex, reaching UK #15 and cracking the US Modern Rock Top 10. The video represents a textbook example of 1990s British indie performance aesthetics: warm-lit, casually framed, and focused on the…

The director

Pedro Romhanyi is a British music video and television director active from the early 1990s onward, closely associated with the Britpop and UK indie rock scenes of the mid-to-late 1990s. He is recognized for directing landmark music videos for Pulp (Common…