Review by :
Playlouder.COM - John Robb

Just how good are The Subways?

What a great band.

Just when you thought that there could be no more twists on this blues rock'n'roll plot, someone comes along and does something really cool with it. And they're British. Something homegrown. From Welwyn Garden City!"

You culd be glib and say that it's sorta like the White Stripes with a bass, but that's lazy. Everything about The Subways is great. Let's start with the drums : the drummer is a fookin' maniac, he is a ferocious assault, a battery. It's pure raw energy that drives the blues flavoured rock'n'roll thing, and gawd do we like a good drummer

Mary-Charlotte Cooper plays a foxy bass. Strutting the stage with a hyped-up rock'n'roll confidence, she alternates between a maniac freak out thing and the sassiest hipswing thing as she hammers down phat bass on the tunes - when she shimmies up to main vocalist Billy Lunn it's pure sex, and surely that's what rock'n'roll is all about.

Lunn is a great rough-voiced rock of a singer, and he also plays a neat guitar switching between adrenalised chord rushes and neat lead licks. Oh, and they have a set full of great songs. A great band not in the making - a great band already arrived. Fully formed. The Subways will be big time in 2005.

The best band of tonight at In The City? Well that's obvious. The Subways - who are clearly about to blow up - they brought the tunes, charisma, attitude and energy to the day. Enjoy them now, soon they will be 'the best new band in the world this week forever' - hyped to fuck and getting on your nerves.