Billy Lunn - Guitar & Vocals
Charlotte Cooper - Bass & Vocals
Josh Morgan - Drums
Influences
Tunes for the stereo...
Future Of The Left Nirvana Mew Mclusky The Beatles Annie The Shins Blonde Redhead PJ Harvey Refused Neil Young Von Bondies Madonna Rage Against The Machine Kings Of Leon Don Caballero Radiohead Fugazi Regina Spektor Graham Coxon Larrikin Love Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Sonic Youth Elliott Smith Shellac Jon Brion Taking Back Sunday The Clash Oasis Björk Test-Icicles Smashing Pumpkins Lou Reed Stina Nordenstam TV On The Radio Beck The Dandy Warhols The Beatsteaks The Hives Muse Stevie Wonder Ladytron Nelly Furtado Bob Dylan The Flaming Lips Yeah Yeah Yeahs Death Cab For Cutie Ocean Colour Scene The Mars Volta The Cardigans Fiona Apple Biffy Clyro The Sleepy Jackson Sufjan Stevens Deftones At The Drive-In B.R.M.C The Brian Jonestown Massacre T. Rex The Coral Paul Simon Hole Pinback Suede Blur Jimmy Eat World The Zombies Air The Distillers The Culprits
Movies on the tour bus...
There Will Be Blood
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil’s Backbone
Cronos
No Country For Old Men
The Hudsucker Proxy
O' Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
Miller’s Crossing
Blood Simple
Fight Club
Zodiac
Brazil
The Fisher King
Time Bandits
INLAND EMPIRE
Mulholland Drive
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
The Elephant Man
Dune
A History Of Violence
Crash
The Fly
Naked Lunch
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
Heat
Miami Vice
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Chopper
The Doors
Natural Born Killers
J.F.K.
Batman Begins
The Prestige
Memento
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life
Sunshine
The Beach
Trainspotting
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Taxi Driver
Casino
The King Of Comedy
Goodfellas
No Direction Home
Mean Streets
Gangs Of New York
United 93
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Shaun Of The Dead
Hot Fuzz
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Sweeney Todd
Corpse Bride
Sleepy Hollow
Beetlejuice
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
Love And Death
Match Point
Gladiator
Blade Runner
Alien
American Gangster
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
The Frighteners
A Mighty Wind
This Is Spinal Tap
Best In Show
Day Of The Dead
Dawn Of The Dead
Land Of The Dead
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Usual Suspects
Superman Returns
X Men
X Men 2
I *Heart* Huckabees
Three Kings
The Seventh Seal
Volver
Casablanca
It's A Wonderful Life
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Wolf Creek
Lucky Number Slevin
The Great Escape
24 Hour Party People
Grosse Point Blank
Solaris
Stardust
Spiderman
Spiderman 2
The Host
Kalifornia
Logan's Run
Two For The Road
Children Of Men
Sideways
Sylvia
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Dave
The Wicker Man (Original)
Sin City
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Death Proof
Jarhead
Tell No One
Good Bye Lenin!
Secretary
Anchorman : The Legend Of Ron Burgandy
Factotum (Man Of Many Jobs)
Casino Royale
Severance
The Last King Of Scotland
Private Parts
BASEketball
The Constant Gardener
Interview With A Vampire
Million Dollar Baby
Mayor Of Sunset Strip
Tommy Boy
A Beautiful Mind
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
Dogma
American History X
A Fish Called Wanda
Stoned
The Dish
Kingpin
Thank You For Smoking
V For Vendetta
A Cock And Bull Story
The Dreamers
Boiler Room
My Cousin Vinny
Almost Famous
DIG!
Blow
The Machinist
Refused Are Fucking Dead
Charade
It's All Gone Pete Tong
The Shawshank Redemption
Gosford Park
American Psycho
Finding Nemo
Battle Royale
Candyman
Fierce Creatures
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Mallrats
End Of The Century: The Ramones Story
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
ENRON: The Smartest Guys In The Room
The Fog Of War
In Bed With Madonna
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)
There's an awesome/informative interview with Billy posted here: http://popwreckoning.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/interview-with-billy-lunn-of-the-subways/
ive seen you a few times now and i have to say the gig at the carling academy in birmingham was amazing, you just are the best at what you do. the best lead man in years!! billy rocks! i will definately come see you again when you're back! you get better with every show, plus three stage dives! haha how do you beat that?!!! you all rock, just keep it up :D
Hey Guys, Thank you for such an amazing night in Birmingham on Wednesday. You played at the Palace in Tamworth(my hometown) once but I missed that, so I was so glad to see you at the Carling Academy. Billy, thanks so much for coming out and meeting me and 3 of my friends afterwards! I cannot describe how much it meant to all of us. And thanks to the dude who went and fetched you for us :D He let us speak to your Mum over the phone! Haha.
Keep doing what you do guys cos you're awesome at it :D Please come back to Birmingham soon.
