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Making SMileS HaPPen
Making SMileS HaPPen
he Subways’ self-titled album, their
ne band that you can’t resist smiling at when they’re on Tfourth full-length album, hit shop and
Ostage, jamming out, or even just in your CD player/ipod at internet shelves on February 9th. It’s an album
home is The Subways. They’re a vibrant, exciting and exhilarat- that really means a lot, especially to Billy. He
ing three-piece from Welwyn Garden City with more enthusiasm tells us, “This is a very, very personal record
for me in particular because I not only wrote
than you can shake a stick at. In fact, they’re likely to snatch that the songs but I also recorded, produced and
stick off you, jump up and down with it and use it as a mic to mixed it. Throughout the whole process I was
scream through, with joy in a bag, bursting at the seams. Billy questioning whether I was capable of doing
Lunn, Charlotte Cooper and Josh Morgan are the talented trio – such a thing but also particularly ‘I’m In Love
And It’s Burning In My Soul’.”
who are as likely to be found in the corner by themselves (so ‘I’m In Love And It’s Burning In My Soul’ is
they say) being geeky kids, questioning their ability, as they are the second song on the album and a song that
whizzing around the stage impressing everyone. We caught up was kickstarted by a need for Billy to change
with frontman Billy and chatted about falling back in love with himself. He tells us, “I was going through sort
of a recovery process, because I’d just given
music, studying on tour and missing the chance to join The Char- up alcohol, I’d realized I was an alcoholic, and
latans on stage, despite being asked. that I needed to make a few decisions in my
THE SUBWAYS
