Welwyn Garden City based trio The Subways have quickly established themselves as one of Britain's most undeniably “Arse kicking – will someone please turn that mutha up” bands. Live they will blow your brains clear through the back of your skull and leave your body flopping around like a helpless rag doll being shaken by a very petulant child who’s forgotten to take their Ritalin.
You won’t ever want it to end…ever…
Since their immaculate conception in a Suburban English town in the hot summer of 2002 they have blazed a trail around, first the British, 80 packed in a room and the sound systems a bit knackered (that means sh*t for you yanks), clubs to the 5000 plus capacity, and the light systems really flashy now, venues of our fair isles.
Around this point it seemed sensible to release the bands songs on an easy to store, wipe clean format and 500,000 Cds were hastily produced and sold by the bucket load by the bands fine record company. If you don’t have “Young For Eternity” then quite simply, you’re mad/ wrong and should take immediate steps to improve your life and those of your friends and family.
2 years of craziness followed! On came the U, S and A/ Japan/ Aus/ Germany and the rest of Europe. Festivals/ tours/ TV appearances/ Videos/ Awards/ Autographs/ Interviews/ Photo shoots… the mighty carousel of musical dreams was spinning and we all held on tight. Faster and faster…perhaps too fast we span and all our hearts stopped when Billy’s horse stumbled in April and finally fell in Sept 06.
n a January 07 operation Billy had Vocal nodes removed. (google it… it’s not very nice)
March 07 and Billy’s voice was stronger than ever. So the band packed their sunglasses and headed to Los Angeles to hook up with legendary producer Butch Vig. Having seen the band gig at the LA Troubadour Butch gatecrashed the tour bus to meet the band. The band love some the records Butch has worked on (Nirvana's Nevermind, Sonic Youth's Gish, Garbage's - Garbage amongst many others) making him an obvious and wonderful choice to record their second album. They recorded 16 tracks together over 7 weeks at Conway Studios LA and the result is the stunning follow up album 'All Or Nothing'. Described by the NME as 'The Rock Album Of The Year'. The album was released on June 30th 08, reaching number 17 in the UK charts.
2008 has seen a much loved return to the road with 2 UK tours/ 1 US tour/ 2 trips to Japan/ a German itunes show and an enormous summer of festivals. (Check out the photos).
and it's not over yet with a massive European tour kicking off in October! Get yourself a ticket and get your skinny butt down to the front row!
Goomusic
On Behalf of Billy, Charlotte & Josh
The Subways
ALL OR NOTHING
Strong on melody and big on volume the material here would work whether it were played on an acoustic guitar at sunset on Primrose Hill or through an amplifier the height of a prison wall at Donington Park......far to good for the band who created it to be taken for granted - KERRANG KKKK
Buoyed with emotional heft and supernova guitar riffs, their second album is wired around a maturing song craft. That's not to say it's all bluster and no substance, The recent split of singer guitarist Billy Lunn and bassist Charlotte Cooper has made for some inspirational writing - MOJO 4 * * * *
The Subways have created a cracking album here, producing the goods when under immense pressure, and rising like a phoenix from the flames. Passion sears through every track, and hopefully it'll propel them to the top - at last - ROCKSOUND (8) - Album of the month
Jammed to the ridiculous with memorable, meaty, yet intelligently crafted numbers. It's almost impossible to find fault with this album which throws down the gauntlet to the rest of the struggling pack of sophomores - DISORDER MAGAZINE - (9)
How many new fans have you got now that you've supported ac/dc? Certainly many many many... :-) Enough to become such a legend as ac/dc? *fingers crossed*! The subways would deserve it!
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Hey Guys! Check out our new videoclip of the song "Drive Me crazy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76tRYFFThSw Love your music ;) Kisses Claudia - DMC Crew
I dared you to rock my night and you did excellent...again....great show yesterday....thanks for the music that always makes me wanna rock....cheers Dana
Hi Guys, I love you and your music so much! I think your albums is fantastic! "All or Nothing" is fantastic. Thanks! Bye Bye- IL MURO DEL SUONO - from Italy \m/°_°\m/
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I went to see AC/DC at Hampden Park yesturday based on the fact you guys were supporting. And my god was the day good! AC/DC were amazing goes without saying, but you guys totally won the crowd over and got em all going, another fantastic show :)
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