Brand new version, 'Rock & Roll Queen (Taylor's Version)', released to celebrate 20 years since our debut 'Young For Eternity' dropped! Hope you like it!

Ben Hamilton-Kirby
Jul 4
3 min read

We today commemorate the 20th anniversary of our debut album ‘Young For Eternity’ by unveiling a fresh re-recorded version of ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ (Taylor's Version). The celebrations will continue throughout the rest of 2025, first with the release of ‘When I’m With You’ on Oct 17th 2025, our career-spanning compilation, and then with ‘The Subways For Eternity’ UK and European headline tour. Tickets HERE

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The new video compiles live performances of the track from a selection of recent major European festivals - Deichbrand, Open Flair and Bonn Harmonie for Rockpalast - as well as footage from a video shoot at the Gorilla in Manchester.

In putting this video together we would like to give special thanks to... Sara-jane Morley http://bureau-8.co.uk Rockpalast https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/rockpalast/startseite/index.html Deichbrand Festival https://www.deichbrand.de/en/ Open Flair https://www.open-flair.de/ D-Zentral.tv Blink Vivid Video https://www.blinkvividvideo.com/ Ben Hamilton-Kirby https://www.goomusic.net

Press release....

‘Rock & Roll Queen’ is a cornerstone of The Subways’ story. It has been played at nearly every one of the band’s 1059 gigs to date, while also exceeding 100 million streams and becoming a mainstay of rock radio and streaming playlists. It was also a cultural phenomenon of the era, which soundtracked a Rimmel / Kate Moss ad campaign, and which they performed in ‘The OC’ and Guy Ritchie’s ‘RocknRolla’. It was also the song they played when they stormed ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’.

This new version shows how the song has evolved over the years, led by Billy Lunn’s raw sneer and featuring a heavyweight breakdown that maximises the dynamics of its final explosive hook. Elsewhere, of course, it’s still the ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ that people know and love: that instant earworm of a chorus, Charlotte Cooper’s effortlessly cool backing vocals, and Billy’s blood-letting scream.

Charlotte says, “I always think of ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ as the song that’s taken us around the world, and we’ll always be grateful for that.

Billy adds, “It was punk, it was pop, it was everything we loved about music.”

It still receives a huge reaction to this day, as drummer Camille Phillips observes, “It’s always completely impossible for it not to be contagious for you as well, when everyone starts bouncing around, dancing around, and singing alone to that song.”

The career-spanning ‘When I’m With You’ is structured to reflect the band’s live set, taking in their high impact debut single ‘Oh Yeah’ and the original version of ‘Rock & Roll Queen’, through to early fan favourites like ‘With You’ and recent highlights such as ‘You Kill My Cool’. But there is much more to come in The Subways’ story, as represented by two new songs: ‘I Need To Feel You Closer’ and ‘Passenger’s Side’. The new recordings also mark the album debut of Camille, who joined in 2023.

‘When I’m With You’ is now available to pre-order with physical products coming in the shape of double white-and-black marbled vinyl with a signed insert, double red-vinyl and CD.

The Subways will play select festivals this summer, including UK dates at Harlow’s Sunset Sessions (July 5th) and a headline set on the Giant Squid stage at Y NOT? (August 1st). ‘The Subways For Eternity’ headline tour then gets underway in November across the UK before heading into Europe. Tickets for the dates, listed below, are available .HERE

NOVEMBER

5th - Bristol, O2 Academy

6th - Birmingham, O2 Institute

7th - Newcastle, The Grove

8th - Hull, Welly

13th - Manchester, Band On The Wall

14th - Glasgow, King Tuts

15th - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms

19th - Norwich, Waterfront

20th - Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

21st - London, Electric Ballroom

23rd - France, Paris, La Maroquinerie

24th - Germany, Cologne Bürgerhaus Stollwerck

25th - Netherlands, Amsterdam Melkweg Oz

26th - Belgium, Leuven, Het Depot

28th - Germany, Hamburg, Markthalle

29th - Germany, Berlin, Hole44

DECEMBER

2nd - Czech Republic, Prague, Lucerna Music Bar

3rd - Hungary, Budapest, Dürer Kert

5th - Austria, Vienna, Flex

6th - Germany, Munich, Technikum

8th - Italy, Milan, Magnolia

9th - Switzerland, Zurich, Exil

10th - Germany, Karlsruhe, Substage

12th - Germany, Nurnberg, Hirsch

13th - Germany, Osnabruck, Hirsch

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