The Subways are an English rock band, formed in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in 2000. They comprise frontman and guitarist Billy Lunn, bass player Charlotte Cooper, and drummer Josh Morgan.
The Subways named themselves after the underground walkway that they used to hang around in, and made a name for themselves in time-honored fashion; by gigging and recording prodigiously during their early years. They recorded everything they came up with, releasing new batches of home recorded songs via their website at the same time that they were playing as many love shows as possible. Their break came in 2004, when they won a competition for unsigned bands to play at Glastonbury.
They followed up that opportunity with appearances at Reading and Leeds, their first tour of the UK, and the release of single ‘1am’, which was played by John Peel on Radio 1. By the time they released their debut album, ‘Young for Eternity’, in 2005, they had secured a sizeable fanbase in their home country, and were playing to much bigger rooms. That secured them a contract with Warner Bros. for second album ‘All or Nothing’, which they recorded with Nirvana producer Butch Vig in Los Angeles. They followed it up with the ironically-titled ‘Money and Celebrity’ in 2011, having secured their position as one of the UK’s best-loved young rock bands. They remain more or less constantly active on the live circuit in the UK and Europe.
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