THE SUBWAYS Head Back To ‘The OC’ With Appearance on ‘Welcome To The OC, Bitches!’ Podcast
THE SUBWAYS Head Back To ‘The OC’ With Appearance on ‘Welcome To The OC, Bitches!’ Podcast
Band Reminisces About Their 2005 Performance on the Hit TV Show with Hosts/The OC Cast Members Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke
Fifth Studio Album ‘Uncertain Joys’ To Be Released January 13, 2023 via Alcopop! Records/Bodan Kuma
Relive the Band’s 2005 Appearance on ‘The OC’ Here
2023 UK Headline Dates Announced
In November 2005, British alternative rock band The Subways took to the US airwaves, for an appearance on season 3 of the hit television show ‘The OC.’
They performed at the Bait Shop, a fictional venue that, over the course of the show’s 4 seasons, also hosted The Killers, Modest Mouse and Death Cab For Cutie, to name a few.
Now, 16 years later, Billy Lunn (guitar, vocals) and Charlotte Cooper (bass, vocals) reminisce about their time on the set of the show, on the ‘Welcome To The OC, Bitches!’ Podcast, with hosts and The OC co-stars Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke.
Listen to the podcast here: https://kastmedia.com/podcasts/welcome-to-the-oc-bitches/
Stream it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWiK0P2QZuM
Watch the band performing on The OC in 2005 here:https://youtu.be/ebRlGUezwjY
As Lunn recalled to NME back in 2021: “I don’t want to sound melodramatic, but walking onto the Bait Shop set felt like a spiritual experience. It was a place that I was familiar with, having watched The O.C., but as soon as you arrive and start touching the bar and the walls, and look out of the windows that aren’t quite windows, you feel, for a very brief moment, like the veil has lifted. The reality that this was all just make-believe suddenly hit home for me.
“This was our first trip to the US, and it felt very dreamlike because of that. Usually when we go to a new country, we play a bundle of gigs and it’s all very unwieldy and low-key and rock and roll. Here though, we weren’t playing a gig in a dingy venue, but on a TV show that was broadcast to millions of people.
“After we’d finished filming, we went to watch some of the other scenes. Rachel Bilson [who plays Summer] saw us, came over and was like: ‘Hey, guys, I saw you filming your scene. That was really cool. How are you? I’m Rachel.’ And I was like, ‘I know!’ And she didn’t just chat with us for a little while, she hung out with us for the whole day!
“Thanks to appearing on The O.C., we were able to do a huge headline tour, zigzagging across America playing to full capacity venues with these wild audiences. We did that for a couple years – and we can still go back now and play America.
“You can tell when The O.C. is airing, because we suddenly get an influx of new fans. If it’s rerun in the States, we will suddenly get this interaction from a completely new generation. It’s amazing – and makes a change from the usual process of being in a band, releasing albums and going on tour. It feels like we’re part of a different culture that goes beyond music. It changed everything for us.”
The Subways are gearing up for the release of their 5th studio album ‘Uncertain Joys,’ set for release on January 13th, 2023.
The band’s latest single ‘Love Waiting On You’ was accompanied by an 8-bit animated video, which is streaming here: https://youtu.be/a6UWq0_sY9Q.
‘Uncertain Joys’ was recorded and produced by front man and producer in his own right Billy Lunn, mixed by the Grammy Award-winning Adrian Bushby (Muse, Foo Fighters, Everything Everything), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Mykki Blanco, Arlo Parks, Nadine Shah).
Pre-order ‘Uncertain Joys’ here: https://bfan.link/uncertain-joys.
The Subways’ previously announced UK album tour dates have been rescheduled to January/February 2023 and are on sale now.
‘Uncertain Joys’ tracklist:
1. You Kill My Cool
2. Love Waiting On You
3. Uncertain Joys
4. Incantation
5. Black Wax
6. Lavender Amelie
7. Fight
8. Influencer Killed The Rock Star
9. Swanky Al
10. The Devil and Me
11. Joli Coeur
12. Futures
Rescheduled Jan/Feb 2023 UK Headline Tour Dates:
Jan 26th – Manchester Gorilla
Jan 27th – Stoke Sugarmill
Jan 28th Sunderland Independent
Jan 29th Glasgow King Tuts
Feb 1st – Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
Feb 2nd – London Scala
Feb 3rd – Brighton Chalk
Feb 4th – Cambridge Mash
The Subways are:
Billy Lunn – guitar and vocals
Charlotte Cooper – bass and vocals
Camille Phillips – drums
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Formed in 2002, by now The Subways should need no introduction. Nearly 20 years into their career the band have had multiple chart-worthy album releases including Young For Eternity (2005), All Or Nothing (2008), Money And Celebrity (2011), and The Subways (2015), spawning a slew of hit singles including ‘Rock & Roll Queen’, ‘Oh Yeah’, ‘Girls & Boys’ and ‘We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time’.
