Sleeper

Sleeper are an English indie britpop band formed in London in 1992. The group had eight UK Top 40 hit singles and three UK Top 10 albums during the 1990s. Their music was also featured in the soundtrack of the pop cultural hit movie Trainspotting. The band split up in 1998, but reunited in 2017. At one point, the band called themselves Surrender Dorothy, after the smoke trail in the sky from the Wizard of Oz movie, but abandoned this idea after discovering that several other bands had done the same thing. They subsequently chose the name 'Sleeper' after the Woody Allen movie of the same name, and also because the word has a number of different meanings (a spy, an unexpected hit, etc.).
== Links to Peel ==
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Peel played tracks from the band during the hey day of britpop and had them do three sessions for his programmes. He also interviewed them on his 26 August 1994 show when they were performing at Reading in that year and a year later they performed at Glastonbury for his show. Listeners also voted two of their tracks in the 1994 Festive Fifty.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
* 1994 Festive Fifty: Delicious #20
* 1994 Festive Fifty: Swallow #48
== Sessions ==
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1. Recorded: 1994-01-11. Broadcast: 18 February 1994, no repeats
*Twisted / Pyrotechnician I Think I Love You / Bedside Manners / Hunch
2. Recorded: 1994-10-25. Broadcast: 26 November 1994, no repeats
*Bed Head / Little Annie / Inbetweener / Disco Duncan
3. Recorded: 1996-04-13. Broadcast: 11 May 1996, no repeats
*Dress Like Your Mother / Factor 41 / Nice Guy Eddie / Good Luck Mr Gorsky
== Live ==
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Live set from Glastonbury, recorded 1995-06-23. Broadcast: 23 June 1995
# Bedhead
# Pyrotechnician
# Delicious
# Hunch
# Swallow
# Inbetweener
# Vegas
# Alice In Vain
== Other Shows Played ==
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*Peel October 1993: Alice In Vain (7" - Alice EP) Indolent 
*19 November 1993: Alice In Vain (single) Indolent
*27 November 1993 (BFBS): Alice In Vain (7" - Alice EP) Indolent
*04 December 1993: Alice In Vain (12" promo - Alice EP) Indolent
;1994
*thumb|330x330px22 January 1994: Swallow (7") Indolent 
*28 January 1994: Shallow (7") Indolent 
*05 February 1994 (BFBS): Swallow (7") Indolent 
*22 April 1994: Delicious (single) (Indolent)
*30 April 1994 (BFBS): Delicious (single sided promo 12") Indolent 
*21 May 1994: ‘Delicious (7 inch )’ Indolent
*30 May 1994 (Ö3): 'Delicious (7 inch)' (Indolent)
*26 August 1994: 'Pyrotechnician I Think I Love You] (Various Artists CD - Volume Eleven)' Volume
*03 September 1994: Pyro Technician (I think I Love You) (CD Magazine: Volume Eleven) (Volume)
*10 September 1994 (BFBS): Pyrotechnician (v/a album - Volume Eleven) Volume
*21 October 1994: Bedhead (Live) (7" - Bucket And Spade) Indolent
*28 October 1994: Bedhead (live) (12" - Bucket And Spade) Indolent 
*29 October 1994 (BBC World Service): Bedhead (live) (7" - Bucket & Spade) Indolent
*07 November 1994 (Ö3): 'Bedhead (Live) (limited 7"-Bucket & Spade)' (Indolent)
*thumb|330x330px10 December 1994: Inbetweener (CD Single ) Indolent 
*10 December 1994 (BBC World Service): Inbetweener (single) Indolent
*17 December 1994: 'Swallow (7")' (Indolent) FF #48 (JP: 'Particularly like the last fifteen or twenty seconds of that.')
*23 December 1994: 'Delicious (7")' (Indolent) FF #20 (JP: 'That's the ninth Festive Fifty entry so far sung by a woman. You'd think I'd have better things to do with myself really, wouldn't you? At number 19, the tenth!')
;1995
*09 September 1995: Disco Duncan (Various Artists CD - Hold On) Melody Maker
*16 September 1995 (BFBS): 'Disco Duncan (Compilation CD-...Hold On)' (Melody Maker)
;1996
*thumb|330x330px20 March 1996: Sale Of The Century (single) Indolent
*02 April 1996: Sale Of The Century (single) Indolent SLEEP011
*09 June 1996: Statuesque (album - The It Girl) Indolent
*15 July 1996: Bedside Manners (John Peel's Classic Sessions)
*02 December 1996: Inbetweener (John Peel's Classic Sessions)
*08 December 1996: ‘Ha Ha You're Dead (7 inch - Alice EP )’ Indolent (JP: ‘I know it’s very indie, but it still makes my heart go bumpyty bump.’)
;1997
*01 October 1997: Inbetweener
*29 October 1997: Romeo Me (single) Indolent 
== See Also ==
*Record Collection: Auction
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
Category:Artists