UK alternative rock band The Subways have unveiled a new single “Love Waiting On You” off the trio’s long-awaited album, due out this fall. Uncertain Joys (set for release on January 13, 2023, via Bodan Kuma/ Alcopop! Records) is the band’s first album in 7 years and was produced by frontman Billy Lunn, mixed by Grammy Award-winning Adrian Bushby, and mastered by Katie Tavini. You can hear the single, and watch its accompanying music video below.

The song follows the recent release of the album’s first single “You Kill My Cool.” Lunn says, “Love Waiting On You is about the tension between desperately wanting to be with the one you desire and yet also relishing the suspense in being kept from them. From the confines of my bed on tour (or in my rooms at uni), I would yearn for the love of my life, waiting for her messages to ping on my phone, hoping to hear her voice at the end of the line, desperate to feel her touch. Caught in those moments, there was a joyful pain that made seeing her again unimaginably beautiful. Still, there was something wild and ecstatic about missing her so much.” 

To mark the band’s return to the studio, The Subways are also set to embark on an impressive UK and EU tour. Hitting the standard European festival circuit before eventually landing in the UK in September for an 8-night tour across some of the country’s most iconic venues. You can find full tour information here.

Back in 2005, with an average age of just 18, Billy, Charlotte and Josh crashed onto the international music scene with their debut album Young For Eternity, and their rock-club floor-filling single ‘Rock & Roll Queen’. The NME proclaimed them “The sexiest thing to sweep rock n roll off its feet in years!”.

The band have released four albums to date. Their sophomore, All Or Nothing, was recorded in LA with heavyweight producer Butch Vig and, is “Buoyed with emotional heft and supernova guitar riffs, wired around a maturing songcraft” (MOJO). The tracks were written at a time when Billy was battling to save his voice following surgery to remove nodules from his vocal cords. ‘Money And Celebrity’ followed in 2011, filled with “brilliantly anarchic punk-pop vignettes; each being a big musical finger that sticks it to financial greed, the mediocre mainstream and the fame fetishists” (ROCKSOUND) and included the Radio 1 A-listed single ‘We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time’. Their self-titled 4th album saw the emergence of singer and songwriter Billy Lunn as a producer, as he took control of engineering and mixing duties and is “On Par with the best things they have ever written… and finds the band energized, focused and battle-ready” Q Magazine.

In April 2021 the band signed to ‘Alcopop’ and released the politically-charged, Black-Lives-Matter-inspired single “Fight”, which they describe as “a letter in two parts: a gesture of solidarity with the Black community and communities of colour as they face their daily oppression at the hands of systemic racism, and a wake-up-call to the white community that such oppressions do in fact exist, and that we must acknowledge these oppressions and fight alongside marginalised communities as allies.”

“We will rock till we drop, as there is nothing more exciting for us than being on tour. The greatest drug in the world is seeing people screaming the words and dancing to the songs you’ve written. To get up onstage and to play rock and roll every day, to visit new towns, new cities, new countries, new continents and to make new friends along the way, it’s the most amazing experience we’ve ever felt!”

The Subways UK tour:

21/9/22 – Independent – Sunderland
22/9 – King Tuts – Glasgow
23/9 – The Sugarmill – Stoke
24/9 – O2 Ritz – Manchester
29/9 – Electric Ballroom – London
30/9 – Chalk – Brighton
1/10 – Mash –  Cambridge
2/10 – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff

Photo Credits : Laura Lewis