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“We’re here celebrating 20 years of being us,” says Charlotte to the a hotel, how ‘Popdeath’ is eternally for Amy Winehouse, and how the
audience before the flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll rapture of ‘We Don’t Need dancey ‘Just Like Jude’ is his dad’s favourite song. The personable band
Money To Have A Good Time’. The audience is definitely having a good politely thank the crowd after almost every song, always grateful for the
time, as their loud cheer at the end of the song shows. positive response.
‘Passenger’s Side’ is a new song from the band’s new ‘When I’m With ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ is forever one of our favourites, while Billy tells
You’ release. “Unfortunately, it’s not a TLC cover,” Billy tells the audience. the crowd how they prefer not to do encores and would rather just stay
The song is sublime and much preferred to TLC. on stage before playing ‘Girls & Boys’. ‘With You’ is dedicated to the
“Good evening, Birmingham,” says drummer Camille Phillips before crowd, with the band revealing how they feel genuinely lucky to do what
her favourite song, ‘I Won’t Let You Down’. “I want to convince these guys they get to do. Ending with the delightful ‘Rock & Roll Queen’, in which
that we have to still play this song, because it makes me so happy,” she Billy gets the two sides of the audience to cheer as loud as they can, the
says. She tells the audience to jump up and down, pogo and bounce to band go out on a dynamic high. With The Subways on stage, in front of
keep the song in the set. The song is a fun one to bop around to. us, it is us, the audience, that are really the lucky ones.
Charlotte mentions working with Butch Vig YYYYY
on the ‘All Or Nothing’ album before the band Shari Black Velvet
perform ‘Kalifornia’, Billy tells the tale about writ-
ing ‘Mary’ for his mother when he was working at The Subways Photos By Shari Black Velvet

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