The Rest of Eternity with The Subways

I was playing drums in my first band at 14, it was the summer of 2005 when our guitarist walks into our practice space with a few CDs of new albums he’d bought. Among these was the debut album by The Subways called ‘Young For Eternity’. I remember him putting it on and loving the bounce of those songs straight away, the contrast of grit in Billy Lunn’s vocal with Charlotte Cooper’s punky edge. Then of course there was Josh Morgan’s drumming, the fierceness of which no one could fail to notice. So it was a pleasure then to see this whole record performed live by the band at London’s o2 Kentish Town Forum this past weekend, as well as interviewing the band about being back on the road.

The Subways: Charlotte Cooper and Billy Lunn. Image Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett.

The Subways: Charlotte Cooper and Billy Lunn. Image Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett.

It’s been somewhat of a rollercoaster for The Subways since the start of the pandemic. They began their 15th anniversary tour of Young For Eternity in March 2020, though had to call it quits after a few dates for obvious reasons. Following those cancellations, they got to work on their fifth album, and though little is known as yet about the record, the band insists it’s their most unique so far. However, after recording wrapped up, Josh Morgan decided to leave the band, with The Subways continuing as a duo.

With the winter lockdown hitting the industry worse than ever, the band were forced to sell some of their recording equipment to buy out their studio contract. Though fundraising allowed them to purchase some of it back, Billy Lunn later sold some of his guitars to further stay afloat until touring could resume.

In April, The Subways released the first single from their forthcoming album, entitled ‘Fight’, which saw Billy Lunn play some small acoustic performances around its promotion. Rescheduled for September, the Young For Eternity tour would be fulfilled with the announcement of Camille Phillips of The Ramonas behind the kit. Also supporting the original dates, Alcopop! labelmates Art Brut would be returning to honour the new run.

TheSubways_tour.jpg

After hearing the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Elastica before the show, the Dire Straits track 'Walk Of Life' seemed out of the ordinary. Seeing Art Brut walking out to it mid-song, it would soon start making sense. They opened their set with the introduction to 'Welcome To The Jungle' and after a track referencing R.E.M.'s 'It's The End Of The World…', had an extended musical break while lead singer Eddie Argos pretended to call his Mum. Later, the band would even play a song about Guns N' Roses vocalist Axl Rose. And after convincing us we didn't want to go home and telling us we were wonderful, Art Brut took their leave, and with it my heart. They certainly had a new fan here.

The lights dimmed, first on the stage, then in the audience. Sedate music came over the speakers and as the band slow-danced their way on to plug in their instruments, Billy Lunn addressed the room for the first time:

“Good evening London! We are The Subways and we’re gonna play for you the entirety of our debut album ‘Young For Eternity’. So here we go! This song’s called ‘I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say’.”

The audience were with them right from the get-go. Singing at the top of their lungs, Billy ceased playing to let the some two thousand strong crowd perform the lyric instead, all before even bassist Charlotte Cooper and Camille Phillips would augment the song. But when they did, it became a battle of who had the most energy – the audience, or the band.

“Before we go any further, I’d just like to make a declaration: it is so fucking amazing to be back! Oh! Another declaration, or proclamation I suppose, we’d like to reveal to you right now – our brand-new drummer, Camille Phillips everybody! And just to celebrate both of those things, this next song is called ‘Holiday’!” ­- Billy

Cooper was running around everywhere, and Billy with her when he wasn’t singing. Phillips and the amps were pushed right back on purpose to give the duo space to jump around. The band had lost none of the energy they’d had on their previous tours.

“This next song, never gonna get used to playing this third in the set, but it’s special. It’s entirely possible that we will play this song again at some point in the set. We love playing this song very much, so here we go, this song’s called ‘Rock & Roll Queen’.” - Billy

The love in the room was universal, criss-crossing in all directions. The crowd was bouncing, everyone was singing, the band clearly loved being back on stage so much. Having seen the Ladbrokes advert featuring Rock & Roll Queen and a small army of talented drummers, it was great to finally see a drummer as passionate as Camille Phillips performing it in the flesh.

“Ok, so this next song, along with all the other songs on this record, this next song was written, when I was working in a hotel, in Welwyn Garden City (a big cheer) – the contingent here! I used to collect the dirty sheets from the hotel rooms and package them up and send them off. And it was really great actually because it was just me, I just went about my job and I used to sing songs and write songs and I’d go back home with all the songs and that’s how we ended up with Young For Eternity. I came home from work one day about two or three o’clock in the afternoon, my Mum’s on the sofa looking really upset, just for no particular reason. So I thought, ‘Ok, I’m gonna try and cheer her up.’ So I went upstairs and wrote her a song, and I ended up writing her this song, it’s called ‘Mary’.” - Billy

Billy had switched guitars to an electric with a more acoustic and percussive sound. The crowd sang passionately once more. I noticed microphones pointing in their direction and wondered if fans might see a live album from this tour in the future. The mood in the room was certainly primed for it, as the non-band members sang the final word: ‘Mary…’

‘Beautiful singing, thank you!’ – Charlotte

“This next song is the title track and is therefore called ‘Young For Eternity’!” – Billy

Young For Eternity was recorded in early 2005 at Elevator Studios in Liverpool and produced by The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie. The previous year saw the band’s popularity surge when they won a competition to play at Glastonbury festival, followed by a Maida Vale session for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, and later their first headline tour. All when the band was hovering between their teenage years and forever becoming an adult.

“Thank you! So one of the joys of playing Young For Eternity all the way through is that we’re kind of, not forced I would say but, pushed into playing songs we never really played live around the time of the release because we were so enamoured by just losing our minds on stage when we played our show that the acoustic songs kind of got left at the side. So, it’s really nice to be playing these songs and, with that in mind, this next song is called ‘Lines Of Light’.” - Billy

Indeed, the care given to the tracklist gave the record a flow with peaks and troughs. It makes more sense to go balls to the wall when you’re playing in front of a hundred people for 40 minutes, but this was the Kentish Town Forum, and the show would be an hour and a half. You could see some swaying in the crowd, who moments earlier were shoulders deep in a mosh pit. It wouldn’t last for long though.

“This next song’s called ‘Oh Yeah!’” - Billy

Camille Phillips kicked into one of the classics from this record, and both Lunn and Cooper sang as if sixteen years hadn’t passed at all. Then just like 2005, they passed it back to the crowd, who became the lead vocalists for a time. ‘Let’s see those beautiful hands in the air!’ Billy led the audience in a fast clap-along, soundtracked with Camille’s thudding bass drum, though there was no stagediving or PA-climbing this time around! This song probably had the most energy in the room for the band’s entire set, it was electric, you couldn’t help but be involved. This is the kind of moment that inspires people to go home and start a band of their own.

The energy was kept up for City Pavement, a name the band would lend to their own record label from this era. It would be on the imprint for both the album and the singles and would continue with their second album ‘All Or Nothing’ too, resurrected for the re-releases of both these records in 2020.

“This next one is another song we’ve really missed playing live over the years, just through the kind of accumulation of new records, you kind of have to push certain songs aside, and this is one of the songs we pushed aside, even though it was a single. We were really pleased with that, and I’ve got these really fond memories of writing this song with Charlotte at her parent’s house, so, yeah this song’s called ‘No Goodbyes’.” – Billy

No Goodbyes returns to the acoustic sound of some of these tracks. Though recordings from Charlotte’s parent’s house aren’t included on the Young For Eternity re-release, there are plenty of home demos made in Billy and Josh’s house. A mixer stayed in the kitchen, with microphones going through a hatch into the living room. Among these demos was an early recording of the band’s debut single ‘At 1am.’

“Thank you so much! So, if it’s not too apparent generally, we feel so incredibly lucky and not only to be in this band, to be in A band, a rock and roll band, playing every night. It’s an absolute dream, don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise, trust me they’re all fucking bullshitting, this stuff is amazing! I feel personally lucky, to share my life with Charlotte and now Camille who’s absolutely incredible. By the way, happy fourth anniversary to Camille and her girlfriend Maxine! I only found out about that like ten minutes before the show. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we feel so incredibly lucky to have you all in our lives, we feel so, so lucky. So we’d like to dedicate this next song to every single one of you beautiful people, this song’s called ‘With You’.” - Billy

The sign behind the band hadn’t changed, their logo was still as it was back then. Camille’s drum set-up was slightly more elaborate than Josh Morgan’s, but the energy was the same. Seeing this video and comparing it to the band’s show in 2021 was like seeing the album’s title playing out in real life. It’s the same world in which the audience were hanging onto every word, and the band moved with every beat.

Billy introduced ‘She Sun’, a song that had been out of the setlist since the band’s original tour for this album. One of the things I like about this song is how the words stretch out over the track, with Charlotte Cooper’s backing vocal towards the ending. It’s a shame it took this long for it to come back, but it was well worth it. I wonder how many of these songs will stay as regulars on the tour following this one.

“This next song is testament to how pretentious I was at nineteen years old, I wrote this song after I saw a shooting star in the sky, and I was like ‘Oh my god, I have to write a song about this.’ And we put it on the album, so here we go, this song’s called ‘Somewhere’.” - Billy

I always loved Josh Morgan’s playing on this. One thing The Subways do really well is balancing heavier riffs with their lighter side, and Somewhere is the perfect example of this in action. As well, it’s another case of why Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper are both essential as vocalists in this band. When Billy brought the track down to just guitar, the audience kept the beat and the band sang over the top. Somewhere is a great song to have towards the end of Young For Eternity, because it feels like a celebration of everything you’ve heard up to that point.

Without introduction, Lunn began playing the riff to ‘At 1am’, and to his surprise, the audience started singing the first verse unprompted. Stepping up to the microphone, he restarted the verse, which was only seen as a good thing from the crowd, who had an opportunity to sing all the same words again. The Subways have come a long way from their debut music video as pictured above, featuring the original recording made for Transgressive Records before they cut the version included on Young For Eternity.

The Subways: Charlotte Cooper, Billy Lunn and Josh Morgan. Image Credit: Pomona.

The Subways: Charlotte Cooper, Billy Lunn and Josh Morgan. Image Credit: Pomona.

‘So that was Young For Eternity! We’re not gonna stop there, we’re gonna play some more, do you wanna hear some more?’ – Charlotte

Billy explained that the band took to social media to ask what kind of songs their fans wanted to hear on this tour, which they would be mixing in with a few favourites of their own. The next song was ‘Turnaround’, a track from their second album ‘All Or Nothing’. Partway through the song, Lunn brought the track down.

“Ok London, so we’re gonna build this song back up now. And what we want you to do, we wanna see a circle-pit going on, because very soon, I’m gonna say ‘London, let’s go crazy!’ And I wanna see you guys going crazy, are you ready!?” - Billy

The band slowly built the track back up, with Phillips adding more to the beat as the riff cycled round.

‘London, let’s go crazy!’

There wasn’t a circle-pit, but each side of the audience broke away from each other, leaving a few metres between them. Then on Billy’s instruction, ran in a wall of death and went into an all-out mosh pit for the remainder of the song. You would never have believed that outside of those doors, people were still social distancing, wearing masks and sanitising surfaces. Watching complete sweaty beautiful strangers smack into each other in the name of music filled me with the kind of sheer joy people only experience at the sight of their first new-born. What a time to be alive.

“Ok, so the next song, is one that for a good couple of years after our second album, a lot of our hardcore fans that started out on The Subways forum back in 2002-2003 really wanted us to play, so we’re gonna play it! This song is a B-side on our second album and it’s called ‘Clock’.” - Billy

Clock really hasn’t been played much over the years, so this was a total treat. A great thing about The Subways re-releasing their first two records is how they collect together a lot of songs that were released in obscure places at the time. So fans can hear songs like Clock easily on those collections, without hunting for them far and wide. I hope similar re-releases happen for the band’s third and fourth records too.

‘Ok so the next song we’re gonna play for you all, I wrote this song after a friend of mine lost his job.’ - Billy

Billy and his friends decided to take their friend out to the pub to cheer him up, but he didn’t really want to be there, preferring to go home and play FIFA. “I said, ‘Look, we love you, and we’re not gonna have you go home all by yourself, we’ll come with you. It’s about friendship man.’ So we’ve all got our jackets on and we’re in the cloakroom, and I saw this big smile on his face. And I said, ‘You alright dude?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah! Bill, everything’s gonna be ok, we’ve got each other. We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time!’” - Billy

I love when songs like this are inspired by something genuine. This was the first song the band played from their third album ‘Money And Celebrity’, which was released in 2011. This performance was a few days late of being the tenth anniversary of the album’s release. ‘Ok London, let’s see those gorgeous hands in the air!’ The energy stayed up as the audience clapped along. It was crazy to think the band had only been playing for an hour, but I feel like I’d experienced years of history encapsulated in this one gig.

‘Thank you very much! We’re just waiting, Charlotte’s like ripped her guitar strap completely. Maybe she’s feeling on a high. I’ve gotta say, this is one of the greatest feelings I’ve ever had in my entire fucking life, being here. How we doing, CC? Number two to the rescue.’ (The audience began chanting) ‘Thank you so much, you should be chanting your own names, you’re amazing!’

Billy Lunn explained the next song would be ‘Taking All The Blame’, once Charlotte’s guitar strap had been fixed. Then he asked the audience how they were doing, and I’d say everyone was in a pretty good mood. With one problem sorted, Charlotte seemed to run into another - her new bass didn’t have any sound. Billy asked if it was on mute, then one single bass note booped and the band was in business again.

‘In twenty years I don’t think I’ve ever snapped a strap in half.’ – Charlotte

Billy had switched back to the more acoustic sound, though he didn’t play an actual acoustic guitar for the entire gig. The last record from The Subways came out in 2015, so it’s fair to say their fifth album is long overdue. Though the band has toured on and off since this album’s cycle, it would be great to see them out playing new material again in 2022.

“So the next one we’re gonna play is a song that is always requested on tours, especially when we tour through Europe, but we never rehearse it. So we’re like ‘Ah shit, we can’t play it, sorry.’ But we rehearsed it! So we’re gonna play it this evening, this song is called ‘Strawberry Blonde’.” - Billy

The acoustic sound remained for Strawberry Blonde. Another track from All Or Nothing, which was produced by Butch Vig. As well as releasing a new album with his band Garbage this year, Vig also just celebrated thirty years since Nirvana put out ‘Nevermind’, the most enduring part of his production legacy.

“Thank you! We’d like to dedicate this next song to the man who produced our third album, ‘Money and Celebrity’ - Mr. Stephen Street who’s here this evening with his son James, this is for you, this song is ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’.” - Billy

It’s an understatement to say that I was happy to hear this. I’d tweeted the band on more than one occasion asking if they would play this song in London, but I didn’t see it happening. It hadn’t had much of an outing on this tour, and with every song post-Young For Eternity this evening, it seemed less likely. A fan favourite, I love the simplicity of the video with the animations, which has a viewership of over 1.7 million.

Billy walked around the stage, slowly teasing the introduction to ‘Girls & Boys’, the opening number to their second album. Like Somewhere, Girls & Boys also goes between heavier riffs and a cleaner sound, but the production and engineering of Butch Vig and Billy Bush really sets this album on fire. It’s notable as well that it was mixed by Rich Costey, who would work on important records by Muse, Birdy, Frank Turner and Kimbra, as well as many others.

Single artwork for ‘Fight’. Image Credit: Rhi Lee.

Single artwork for ‘Fight’. Image Credit: Rhi Lee.

‘Thank you! Thank you so much! The next song we’re gonna play for you is a song we released earlier this year with Alcopop! The wonderful Alcopop! records. I wrote this song after I attended the Black Lives Matter marches in 2020.’ There was applause amongst the crowd, which Billy thanked them for.

“A friend of mine contacted me on Facebook and she said ‘Look, I really wanna go to this march, I think it’s really important and most of my friends have said no, they said Black Lives Matter should go drown in the fucking river, and all this stuff. And I don’t know anyone else who goes to marches apart from you.’ So I went to university primarily just to go to demonstrations and bang pots and pans and she saw those photos on Facebook and she was like ‘Ah, cool. You go to marches, will you go with me?’ I was like ‘Yeah, let’s go together.’”

“So we turned up and I didn’t bring anything, I just brought a mask and a bottle of water, but she came armed with placards which she’d written out all by herself in her room. And she didn’t know what her parents were gonna think. So she kind of snuck out with the placards and her Mum caught her and was like ‘What are you doing?’ And she said, ‘Oh I’m going to the Black Lives Matter march.’ And she said, ‘I’m so proud of you, that’s amazing, why didn’t you tell me?’”

‘So we ended up in the demonstrations in parliament square, and she was seeing all these slogans and she got these placards out and they were obviously these really personal messages of her experiences as a black woman. All the people around us started seeing her slogans, and you could see it in her face, you could see this validation in her face. It was fucking beautiful to see.’

Billy Lunn explained the march was occurring right after George Floyd was murdered, and they decided to continue marching towards the U.S. embassy.

‘…and on the way over she turned to me, and it was one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard in my entire life. She said, ‘Do you know, I finally feel, I finally feel now, today, right now that I’ve got the language to articulate my experience as a black woman.’ And I just thought that’s so fucking- I can’t believe that, my friend felt that way for her entire life, that she couldn’t quite find the language to evoke or articulate her experience. And it just made me feel really fucking angry. So we’re gonna carry on playing this song, this is the first single off the new album, and this is for her, this song is called ‘Fight’.”

We wrote about Fight back in May, where we asked Billy Lunn more about the origins of the track. What I love about Billy’s passion that comes out in this song is that it isn’t a pose, it isn’t a trend that he’s trying to ride with this songwriting. It’s genuine anger and frustration, and there isn’t enough of that, enough outrage from people in their art. It’s easy to tweet or share something, but putting out this song was a brave stand for something the band believes in, and some fans recoiled from the single when it came out. You could feel the divide in the room also. Making a stand shouldn’t alienate people – it should empower them to do the same for their own causes they believe in.

‘Thank you so very much everybody. It’s wonderful to be back on tour again, it’s wonderful to be back on stage, to be back with our crew, it’s amazing to be back with them. So, just thank you everybody for continuing to support us for so many years.’ – Charlotte

“I’d just like to take this moment to thank our agent, he’s rebooked this gig like five times so we finally did it! Heroes. Them, and you! This is the last song we’re gonna play for you all this evening, I told you that we’re gonna play this song twice, and look, a lot of people ask us ‘Aren’t we sick and tired of playing this song?’ And the straight-up answer to that is fuck no! We love playing this song so much. It’s taken us round the world, these last fifteen years. And it’s also brought you guys into our lives, we can’t help but love it and play it again. So here we go, let’s have a party London! This is ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ again!” - Billy

Billy split the crowd up, creating a competition of which side could scream louder. I’d say the game was evenly matched. In terms of the actual lyrics, the crowd sang harder than the first time - everybody knew the band wasn’t coming back for an encore.

It was refreshing to see a band playing up to curfew rather than losing the time to leaving the stage and coming back out again. Consequently, they packed a good cross-section of their career into a set that already included one of those albums in full, plus a rare B-side, and the band was chatty and appreciative of their audience. Does it get any better than that?

A special thank you goes to Wall Of Sound PR for generously allowing me to review this gig. Continue reading for our Q&A with Billy, Charlotte and Camille. We ask about being back on the road, Camille’s assimilation into the band, and what the future holds in terms of touring and the fifth album. All this and more below!

The Subways, 2021: Camille Phillips, Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper. Image Credit: The Subways.

The Subways, 2021: Camille Phillips, Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper. Image Credit: The Subways.

1. Billy and Charlotte, the Young For Eternity 15th Anniversary tour was broken in two by the pandemic, how does it feel to be back after all the turmoil of cancellations?

Billy Lunn: It's a cacophony of emotions! Relief, a deferred sense of joy, doubt (can I still do this after so long?) - but relief is definitely the overriding emotion. Following the warm-up shows, I realised how essential being onstage is to my happiness.

Charlotte Cooper: It's awesome to be back on stage again - I've so missed the buzz of playing live. I've missed being with our tour family too - it's so lovely to all be back together again.

2. Camille, this is your debut tour with The Subways, what was the audition process like? When was the moment you found out you got the gig?

Camille Phillips: It’s a very wholesome and relaxed story to be honest! I believe Billy’s wife was playing a Ramonas song (another band I play drums for!) that week on her radio show Riot Diet, and I received a message from Billy around that time asking me if I would like to be a part of the tour we are currently doing now. It’s been the warmest welcome I could ever hope for, and I’m loving every minute of it!

3. As part of this tour, you're playing the Young For Eternity record in its entirety, what's everyone's favourite track to play from it and why?

Billy: I really love playing Mary. It's got such a lovely, happy, surging movement to it. I can't help but dance and bounce to the beat as we play it. It also nicely encapsulates the album as a whole: bittersweetness!

Charlotte: I'm really enjoying Somewhere at the moment. It's a song we've not played for years and that's the fun of playing an album in its entirety.

Camille: I love playing all of it, but playing Mary fills me with joy, especially now I know the back story of it after the first show!

4. Camille, how does it feel to play a record that's so integral to the history of this band and its fans?

Camille: Amazing and so surreal. I was listening to the album when I was 16 years old in high school. It almost feels like I’ve stepped in a time machine to a better alternate universe to be honest haha!

5. Tell me about a typical day on the tour. What does everyone do in their downtime?

Billy: First thing I do is brush my teeth. Nothing happens until that small but vital job is done. From there, it's all about the coffee, walks, talks, and laughter. It's really important for me that everyone is having a good time, not least because that invariably makes for a great show at the end of the day. In-between, there will always be food, sound check, a bit of reading, and warming-up/exercise. I'm now getting to the age where pulled muscles are becoming a very real threat! Haha.

Charlotte: Running has always been my thing on tour. It gets me some fresh air and a brief sight seeing tour of the city we're in. I use the time in the dressing room to work on new songs, making demos with the songs Billy has sent me. The past couple of years I've got into knitting and crochet - so rock n roll haha! But that's how I relax these days - so old! Then after the show, its white wine, snacks and hanging with the tour family.

6. Of course, 'Rock & Roll Queen' was used in the ad campaign for Ladbrokes this summer, what was it like to see so many drummers playing along to this track?

Billy: Seeing the faces of so many people we know drumming to our song was such a delight, especially given how we've not seen them for so long over the course of the pandemic. It made me realise just how much I miss being out on the road with my fellow musicians, making noises and making people dance!

Charlotte: It's super cool! We keep spotting people we know! It was such an exciting thing to be part of, especially as the England team performed so well in the European Championships.

7. There are some extra tracks from the Young For Eternity period as compiled on the anniversary re-release of the album. Were you tempted to tackle any of those more obscure songs live?

Billy: Yes, absolutely! We wanted to make sure that we covered all aspects of the Young For Eternity campaign, and beyond. So we've comprehensively rehearsed some choice b-sides, as requested by fans on social networking platforms.

Charlotte: There's a few more obscure tracks that we have rehearsed, ready to play if we get any requests. Camille has absolutely smashed learning the songs. She's learnt so many, old and new songs - we have a great selection to make a setlist from.

8. If you could augment the band with another element for one night, what would you choose? It could be a keyboard player, a brass section, anything! Go crazy.

Billy: A synth player! It would be so lush to add some cosmic sounds to the rock trio noises we make, like the kind you get from the Roland Juno 60. We've actually used a lot of Juno 60 sounds for the new album, so maybe that's why I've gone for this!

Charlotte: 80s style saxophone would be cool. I used to play in school, but I doubt I'd even know which way up to hold one now!

9. Some fans might not be able to make any of the dates on the tour. Can fans expect a live video or two to come from one of these dates?

Billy: That's a great idea. Maybe we should get on that... haha!

Charlotte: That's a cool idea...it would be nice to document it for when we're (even) old(er) too!

10. Could there be anniversary tours for your subsequent records? Or is this more of a one-off?

Billy: We're focussing heavily on the new album coming in time for 2022, as we believe it's the best album we've ever made. But I don't think any of us would turn down an All or Nothing anniversary tour in 2023! We are reliving so many wonderful memories and finding so many new kinds of joy in playing Young For Eternity all the way through in order.

Charlotte: There's a lot of love for All or Nothing from fans....and that's my personal favourite...so it's definitely possible!

11. It looks like 2022 will be all about the new album, is there anything you can tell us about the upcoming record?

Billy: I want to say so much, but all I'll say here is that I don't think anyone is going to expect what's on this new album. Three of the best songs we've ever written are on this new album (well, I like to think so), and they're all so wildly different. That said, you'll definitely know it's us, so we won't be freaking out our core fanbase! I just hope people get as much joy from listening to it as we did from making it.

--------

For more information about The Subways, including announcements about their forthcoming album, visit their official website.

Purchase CD’s, vinyl and t-shirts from The Subways official store here.

The Subways have announced a tour of Germany for May 2022, tickets and more information can be found here.

Follow The Subways on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @thesubways.

--------

Follow and interact with Moths and Giraffes on Instagram and Facebook @mothsandgiraffes, and on Twitter @mothsgiraffes.

We have a Spotify Playlist! Featuring almost every artist we've written about on Moths and Giraffes, find some new music here.

For submissions, or if you’d just like to send us your thoughts, don’t hesitate to contact us via our social media accounts, our contact page, or via email at mothsandgiraffes@outlook.com. We receive a lot of emails though, so please bear with us!

Teri Woods

Writer and founder of Moths and Giraffes, an independent music review website dedicated to showcasing talent without the confines of genre, age or background.

https://www.mothsandgiraffes.com
Previous
Previous

Swept Away - Anna Phoebe’s ‘Sea Souls’

Next
Next

8,700 Seconds with Steve Hackett