The Subways new album

With eight years rocking under their belts and with an average age of 24, explosive UK three-piece The Subways are back. Billy Lunn, Charlotte Cooper and Josh Morgan are set for a September 2011 release of their third album ‘Money and Celebrity’ (COOKCD549) to coincide with a massive 50 date autumn 2011 European tour. Recorded and mixed by famed producer Stephen Street this explosive UK pop/rock record melds their debut’s melodic, pop/punk immediacy with the highly energetic, rock power of 2008’s ‘All Or Nothing’

The simple beginnings of this album came from Billy “I was recording in the front room of my flat, getting up in the middle of the night to record vocal and guitar parts or sitting in front of the TV with my acoustic guitar and picking up on things that both excited and annoyed me: the circus of the celebrity rise and breakdown, love and loneliness, partying hard (sometimes too hard!), big money and the impact the financial crisis is having on us all ” This writing inspired much of the album with tracks like, soon to be teenage anthem, “We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time” written as a tonic to this crisis. And melodic album centrepiece ‘Popdeath’, a comment on the fast turn over of TV show generated celebrity.

The band admits writing and rejecting fifty or more songs before settling on twelve self recorded demos to send to their first choice producer Stephen Street. Billy comments that “Stephen liked our demo tracks so much that he ended up using them as a template for the main recording, even using some guitar and vocal parts from the home demos in the final mixes”

Having now cemented their reputation as a formidable live act (this summer they played their first headline festival appearance in Cologne in front of 60,000 people) the band states that “There is nothing more exciting for us than being on tour. We never want to do anything else. To get up onstage and to play rock and roll every day, to visit new towns, new cities, new countries, new continents and to make new friends along the way, It’s the most amazing experience we’ve ever felt.  We will rock till we drop!”

Tracks off the new album, such as recent free download ‘It’s A Party’ (www.thesubways.net) and sing along stand-out ‘I Wanna Dance With You’ were written with “A huge hunger to get up onstage and get everyone going absolutely nuts!” and that “The greatest drug in the world is seeing people screaming the words to songs you’ve written, dancing to the drums, clapping to your rhythms and screaming when you ask them to!”.

The Subways are:

Billy Lunn – Vocals/ Guitar

Charlotte Cooper – Bass/ Vocals

Josh Morgan – Drums

Brief History

In 2005, Welwyn Garden City three-piece, The Subways crashed onto the UK rock scene with their, now cult, debut album ‘Young For Eternity’ and international party mixtape classic ‘Rock & Roll Queen’.

On the International live circuit, The Subways have been earned praise from all corners. Five consecutive years at the Reading/ Leeds festivals along with appearances at Glastonbury and T in the Park cemented their reputation as festival favourites. Having recently played to 75,000 at Rock Am Ring German they are truly becoming an international phenomenon.

In amidst such a phenomenal rise laid darker problems. Vocalist / guitarist Billy Lunn was forced to undergo surgery to cure nodules on his vocals chords in 2007, caused by the strenuous touring. Suddenly the band’s very existence was in doubt. When Lunn eventually made a full recovery, The Subways headed to Los Angeles to record their second album with Butch Vig. (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth). The result, a sonically enormous, harder edged sophomore album ‘All Or Nothing’ which reflects the bands fight to survive. Lunn’s worries and frustration about being told he may never sing again alongside the emotional impact of the break up of his and Cooper’s long term personal relationship feature throughout the album.

Billy, Charlotte and Josh are now back with their third studio album, ‘Money and Celebrity’ in September 2011 and will be touring the UK.

Source:

www.thesubways.net / www.cookingvinyl.com