THE SUBWAYS Reveal New AA Single ‘Uncertain Joys’/‘Love Me More (Mitski Cover)’ Out Now Alcopop! Records
"Swaggering power pop...broader, more nuanced than before" - The Arts Desk [disc of the day]
"The Subways have pulled it off...there’s still that indie-punk ferocity that they’ve honed so well" - Noizze
"Certainly worth the wait...Uncertain Joys is a fantastic record" - Distorted Sound Magazine [8/10]
“The English trio deliver the goods on the rocking Uncertain Joys” - Goldmine Magazine [4/5]
"The power trio tunnel in new and diverse directions...it's some journey" - Classic Rock
“A brave attempt to expand their sound” - NARC. Magazine
“A brilliantly crafted work” - Stereoboard
THE SUBWAYS Reveal New AA Single ‘Uncertain Joys’/‘Love Me More (Mitski Cover)’
Stream and share - https://bfan.link/uncertain-joys-5
Private listen on Soundcloud - HERE
Watch The New Video For ‘Uncertain Joys’
Watch and share - https://youtu.be/VgKh1GD8n8s
Fifth Album Uncertain Joys Out Now Via Alcopop! Records
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Spring 2023 ‘Uncertain Joys’ EU Tour On Sale Now (Germany Sold Out)
Tickets - https://www.thesubways.net/gigs
Hertfordshire, UK indie punk favourites THE SUBWAYS are pleased to reveal their new single ‘Uncertain Joys’, which is backed by an AA side cover of ‘Love Me More’ by Mistki.
The A side ‘Uncertain Joys’ is the title track from their fifth studio album of the same name, which is out now via Alcopop! Records, and comes with an official video directed by Joe Gist and Blink Vivid Video.
Commenting on the new single, front man Billy Lunn said: “Written and recorded in only a day, ‘Uncertain Joys’ is about coming to terms with a break up, and wanting to be a good person in the process. Given the tumult of the lyrical content, we wanted to fuse genres (rock, hip-hop, synthwave, pop) whilst still managing to get everyone bouncing at live shows.”
"I wanted to create a video with an experimental narrative component to it,” explains director Joe Gist of the music video. “I felt that focusing on this trio of stories that encapsulate some of the universal struggles of romantic relationships was a great way of experimenting with some interesting visual ideas. Merging these stories with Billy's vocal performance as he wanders through the city streets was a great skeleton to structure our stories around whilst still having plenty of awesome performance footage from the band's gig at Gorilla in Manchester."
Following a busy summer of festival appearances across the UK and Europe last year, the band recently wrapped up their 2023 UK headline tour dates and this week kick off their Spring 2023 ‘Uncertain Joys’ EU album tour dates, with all German dates sold out and remaining tickets elsewhere on sale now (see below for full listings).
The Subways’ fifth album Uncertain Joys was recorded and produced by front man and producer in his own right Billy Lunn, mixed by the Grammy Award-winning Adrian Bushby (Muse, Foo Fighters, Everything Everything), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Mykki Blanco, Arlo Parks, Nadine Shah).
Album singles ‘Black Wax’, ‘Love Waiting on You’, ‘You Kill My Cool’, and ‘Fight’ have so far garnered press support from The Independent, NME, Classic Rock Magazine, FLOOD Magazine, CLASH, Guitar Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, guitar.com, Gay Times, The Irish News and more, with international radio support from Steve Lamacq at BBC 6music, John Kennedy at Radio X, Jasper Leijdens at KINK, and KEXP, amongst others.
The Subways fifth studio album Uncertain Joys is out now via Alcopop! Records
‘Uncertain Joys’ 2023 EU Headline Tour Dates:
Mar 17th - Cologne - Artheatre
Mar 18th - Hamburg - Molotow Club
Mar 19th - Rotterdam - Rotown
Mar 21st - Berlin - Frannz Club
Mar 22nd - Krakow - Kradrat
Mar 23rd - Warsaw - Hybrydy
Mar 25th - Brno - Fleda
Mar 26th - Prague - Lucerna Music Bar
Mar 27th - Budapest - Akvárium Klub
Mar 29th - Vienna - Flex
Mar 30th - Bratislava - MMC
Mar 31st - Dornbirn - Conrad Sohm
Apr 01st - Milan - Legend Club
Apr 02nd - Treviso - New Age, Roncade
Apr 04th - Munich - Strom
Apr 05th - Rubigen - Muhle Hunziken
Apr 06th - Schaffhausen - Kammgarn
Tickets on sale now: https://www.thesubways.net/gigs
Stream lead single ‘You Kill My Cool’:
Watch - https://youtu.be/Pvq-jyI98Po
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The Subways are:
Billy Lunn - guitar and vocals
Charlotte Cooper - bass and vocals
Camille Phillips - drums
The Subways online:
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Formed in 2002, by now The Subways should need no introduction. Nearly 20 years into their career the band have had multiple chart-worthy album releases including Young For Eternity (2005), All Or Nothing (2008), Money And Celebrity (2011), and The Subways (2015), spawning a slew of hit singles including ‘Rock & Roll Queen’, ‘Oh Yeah’, ‘Girls & Boys’ and ‘We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time’.
They have toured with AC/DC, Foo Fighters, and Oasis, appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and graced the festival main-stages of Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Lollapalooza, Download, Soundwave, Hurricane & Southside, Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring and many more.
The band have worked with Nirvana and Garbage super-producer Butch Vig, as well as Blur and The Smith’s mastermind Stephen Street, and the band have appeared in several major films and videogames including Guy Ritchie’s Rock’N’Rolla, American smash-hit TV drama The OC, and Colin McCrae: DiRT 2, Saint's Row 2, Fifa Street 2, Forza Horizon.
The first track to be taken from their recently-completed forthcoming new album, ‘Fight’ was The Subways’ first release without long-time drummer and founding member Josh Morgan, who announced his departure from the band in October 2020, shortly after studio sessions were completed.
Produced by Lunn and mixed by Adrian Bushby (Foo Fighters, Muse, New Order), ‘Fight’ is a precursor to the sonic texture of the new album, without giving too much away too early. In the advent of COVID, Lunn is producing and mixing bands in his Welwyn Garden City-based recording studio (with social-distancing measures in place) until touring resumes.
‘Fight’ picked up a triumphant wave of support, with NME, CLASH Magazine, Steve Lamacq at BBC 6music, Gay Times, Broadway World, and more all championing the band’s long-awaited return, and demonstrating a renewed appetite for the band’s forthcoming fifth studio effort.
The Subways’ hit single ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ also recently appeared in Ladbrokes’ European Championship TV advert, partnering with #WeMakeEvents to light up music venues in red and lend support to the live entertainment industry. The advert features hundreds of skilled and experienced drummers performing as a player prepares to take a penalty.
