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Album Review
by SashaS
22-6-2005
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| The Subways striving for eternal youth! |
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The Subways: 'Rock'n'Roll Queen'
(City Pavement)
The Subways: another single before future…
Imagine The Stooges meeting Styx over a bacchanalia of sex, drugs and Rock’n’Roll - and you may get an idea what The Subways second single is all about! It’s about rebellion, girls, fun, the mid-fingerin’ it! ‘Rock’n’Roll Queen’ should be the song of the Summer!
Alas, the kitsch epoch we are occupying will probably spit another sunny crap along the infernal Frog lines and thus prevent The Subways from reaching the top of the Charts. It rightfully should because it sounds like a 3-minute-symphony for ‘my generation’! It sucks the kids are too busy by hiding in the dungeons of nostalgia and shopping malls of Pop Idolatry!
The Subways’ pin-up looks, energy and “takin’-no-s**t” attitude are ingredients that ought to endear them to boys and girls with issues [personal/professional/whatever] as well as to the most casual record buyer. ‘Rock’n’Roll Queen’ is the first song that vocalist/guitarist Billy Lunn ever wrote.
It is produced, as the debut album, by Ian 'Lightining Seed' Broudie, and has had a difficult birth. The only finished version of the debut album was on the computer belonging to drummer Josh Lunn was stolen from outside the band’s hotel. They got it back and entitled ‘Young For Eternity’, it is released on 04 July.
The band will be touring extensively this summer and are to be seen by varied audiences, be it during the Oasis and Weezer tours or festival sites: Carling Weekend (Reading and Leeds), T In The Park, Guilfest and Glastonbury. The last one, taking place this weekend, came about after a personal invitation by Michael Eavis to play the opening slot at the festival that helped catapult The Darkness to fame two years ago.
There is no comparison - The Subways are infinitely superior!
8/10
SashaS
22-6-2005
The Subways single ‘Rock’n’Roll Queen’ is available now on City Pavement/Infectious
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