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In The City Unsigned - Paul Cockerton

Here's a strange one. The Subways are three skinny teens from Welwyn Garden City. The two brothers – guitarist Billy Lunn and drummer Josh Morgan – for some reason don’t share a surname. Meanwhile the third member of the trinity, Billy’s girlfriend Mary-Charlotte Cooper, is the type of mini-skirted blonde you’d expect to see gyrating on an American r’n’b video rather than attacking a bass guitar.

So how come they’ve perfected the kind of authentic dirty blues that the likes of The 22-20s have been flailing and failing to achieve for the last few years?

Morgan keeps a constantly peppy beat throughout their half-hour cameo set, while Lunn and Cooper take turns to rock backwards to shake their perfectly-placed hair and forwards into the mic to spit bittersweet lyrics at each other. It all comes to a giddy head on the last song when they crank up 1am, their forthcoming debut single that's stuffed full of clattering drums, loud and quiet bits and vibrant vocal interplay.

Having played to thousands at this year's Glastonbury and Reading festivals, and with radio stations already on their side, the only way is up for The Subways.