U.K. Subs

Yeah

... uh, UK Subs.

Almost could have put them in another category but, uh, they put out Brand New Age.

Feel like they typically get more lumped in with punk rock than necessarily oi! and street punk, but they are definitely prototypal for those genres.

Then we had Stiff Little Fingers with White Noise from Inflammable Material.

Following up with of course Suzy and the Banshees with Helter Skelter from The Scream and we finished with UK Subs and Disease from Another Kind of Blues.

I wanted to add Adam and the Ants but when I went back last time to get the vinyl from McKay's it was gone.

I knew I should have got it.

Yeah.

UK Subs.

Yeah.

Todo pinche band.

When we were get- when I was getting into that style of hardcore music, you know, again, like, coming from...

I was listening to a lot of the UK stuff, so, like, uh, Crass, Conflict, UK Subs, all that.

I had the jacket and everything, and I...

And it, like, I, it was new, so it was only a...

i want

But there is that sort of chanting chorus that it's got that I think is probably, I mean, maybe these bands came a year or two later, but things like UK Subs or Sham 69, you know, those real lads down the pub chanting kind of chorus things.

And this track and the other tracks on this album has that, which might make you think, oh, it's like that.

But that's to take one aspect of it in isolation and not look at it as a whole, I think.

Let's play a song that's probably more familiar to many of my listeners.

This is the UK Subs and their song, Warhead.

Hey, what's up? This is Noodles from the Offspring, and you're listening to MMH, the home of rock radio.

It's where all Midlands metalheads feel at home, and also some punkers and some old crusties, too.

We played places.

I believe we played the Che Cafe, which is a collective down on the campus of UC San Diego, etc., etc.

Anyway, before Offspring, we heard UK subs and their classic song, Warhead, that comes from their second record, Brand New Age.

from back in 1980, so there you go.

you drive a car, I'd sack for three If you try to sit, I'd sack your feet If you get too cold, I'd sack for heat If you take a walk, I'd sack your feet For your love I see a red door and I want to paint it black No colors anymore, I want them to turn black Painted black Both flowers and my love Never to come back I see people turn their heads And quickly look away Like a newborn baby It just happens every day I look inside myself And see my heart is black I must have it painted black Maybe I'll fade away and not have to face the fact It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black No more will my green sea turn a deeper blue I cannot foresee this thing happening to me And I want it painted black No colours anymore I want them to turn black

In 2024, the Dead Boys and the UK subs were both asked to collaborate on an EP.

Instead of each recording track, though, they decided to combine forces for a three-track covers EP called the Carnaby Street EP.

This features UK subs frontman Charlie Harper on vocals, bassist Alvin Gibbs, Cheetah Crone from the Dead Boys, and then there's also Steve Strahan, and drummer Stefan Haublein on the Sonnet.

They did a Stones cover, Painted Black, Yardbirds cover, For Your Love, and a Beatles cover called Taxman.

And ahead of that, you had three tracks from Sonny Vincent and his Rat Race Choir that all feature Cheetah Chrome.