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Review: The Subways, Carling Academy Birmingham
THAT The Subways appear as fresh and frenetic as ever given their inner turmoils and the strains of a never-ending world tour is credit to these fast-maturing rockers.
They tear through Kalifornia, the aptly-titled Young for Eternity, All or Nothing and Mary and the pace only relents when singer Billy Lunn appears solo for an acoustic Strawberry Blonde.
But even this offering sees the band reassemble to beef up the final section.
On only two occasions do they play consecutive tracks from the second album suggesting a lack of confidence in the newer material but they need not worry as Girls and Boys is as rapturously received as old favourite Oh Yeah.
“When I’m with you, it seems so easy”, Billy bawls on With You but in no way does it sound an awkward or painful reference to his split from bassist Charlotte Cooper rather a celebration of what they had.
Rowdy encore Rock and Roll Queen only reaffirms that.
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