Happy Friday to you all SUBSETTERs!

It looks like we in the UK need to brace ourselves for a bit of a freeze over the next week – but you know it’s going to be warm in your favourite drinking den

The gang will be up very early tomorrow as they will be shooting more pics and video footage around North London.

This is all in preparation for their next EP which will be out soon – want to know when this happens before anyone else? You had better make sure you’re on the VIP list

Good news – SUBSET has been confirmed for one festival already this year and is currently working with a few other organisers in order to agree slots in some more.

While we’re chatting about festivals, the fuzzy foursome are putting themselves up for a competition that will give them the chance to play Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park, London this year!

The only ‘Battle of the Bands’ thing SUBSET have attempted previously was when they had only been together for about 6 months – they ended up getting to the regional finals. So, who knows where they could get with 3 years behind them?

As with all these things they need your help.

Don’t worry – it wont cost you anything -in fact…

We’re GIVING you a FREE single!

All we need you to do is download Lucid Dreamer for free from here

The winners from the regional download sections will then go into live gig rounds until the winners are decided and it is they who get to play in Hyde Park.

Who would love to see SUBSET show the crowd what they can do on a big stage?

If you’ve subscribed to our newsletter you’ll be getting your latest dose of fuzz emailed direct to you in a week or so – if you’re not on the list then you’d better get on it like Technotronic!

Til next time

Cheers n beers!

Web Monkey Underling

Hey there SUBSETTERs!

It is, as near as damn it, the weekend!

What have you got planned? We hope that it involves plenty of drinking and dancing whatever you’re up to.

Things are nice and busy here at SUBSET HQ – but in a good way.

The lads are busy finishing off their brand-spanking new tracks at a secret French location. These will be released in the second-half of 2012 but don’t worry – the gang will have something for you to listen to a lot sooner than that. I told you that SUBSET never sleeps!

During a rare moment of not having newly formed Fuzz tracks kicking out of the studio monitors, Rom asked SUBSET (amongst many others) producer Zool to share his thoughts.

You see, Zool has worked on almost all of the SUBSET releases and has seen the group grow in to the current fearsome fuzz-monster you know and love.

It’s great to see that you are spreading the word as well – we have watched the Facebook Group grow since the new year and now it’s broken past the 900 ‘Likes’ mark! The SUBSETTER party bus is getting huge – we thank you all!

You will also be glad to hear that SUBSET have started to take gig bookings as well as continuing to pester the UK’s festival organisers. Keep checking the tour date listing.

You may have noticed that there’s a new photo gallery up – why not check out the larger version?

Well, I’d better get back to sorting out the next email newsletter. It has some very important news to let the subscribers know about first.

If you are not already on our mailing list then stick your details in the box over there on the right-hand side and you’ll be one of the lucky ones to get the breaking news first

Til next time.

Chief SUBSET Webmonkey

Greetings SUBSETTERs and welcome to the other side of the new year.

We all hope that 2012 has started off well for you and that you have plenty to look forward to over the next 12 months – SUBSET certainly has!

Everyone here at SUBSET HQ is busy chasing, hassling, poking and prodding various representatives of myriad UK festivals (as well as a few international ones) in order to get your favourite fuzzsters on as many festival line-ups this year as possible. They really want to get to play for you all and they enjoy a good festival as much as anyone reading this :0)

“Festivals are great, especially when you’re there with a bunch of buddies” enthuses Rob. “Yeah,” agrees Jay “the fact that you leave the real world outside and only have to think about three things: Which band to see next, what to drink next and what to eat next”. Rom adds: “sleeping is optional!”.

They are currently in contact with loads of festivals from the small local bashes all the way to the big boys such as Sonisphere, Download and Glastonbury.

“We hope that they all take us seriously no matter what size they are” says Rom “We want to play them all even if it is the first slot in the morning – once the dedicated music fans and seagulls see us and hear us they will remember us”. “We definitely need to play these festivals this year before the world ends on December 12th” states Jay. “That’s rubbish and you know it” says Rob “Marty McFly went to 2015 so the world can’t end in 2012!” Who are we to challenge Rob’s knowledge of the Back to the Future series of films?

If you are arranging a festival or have a favourite local one which we might have missed please let us know at the usual email address: SUBSETuk@gmail.com

The lads have kicked off their year with a very constructive first session at the Fuzz Cave and have started filming footage for a new video to be released very soon. During the shoot the very talented Adrien Daste snapped some behind the scenes photo’s which can be seen on the band’s Facebook page here.

Talking about video’s – in response to your Christmas wishes the lads have started to film interviews in order to answer some of the questions you have about them. The first in the series is a candid question and answer session with Jay ‘The Sheriff’ Garrett. The interview covers how long he has been playing bass, which other bands he has played in as well as his martial arts background and his day job and much more. There will be more to follow as soon as Rob and Rom are sober enough to answer questions.

You can catch up on any videos which you may have missed at SUBSET’s video channel here

Keep coming back for more videos and more news!

Here’s Jay’s interview:

Hey there festive SUBSETTERs!

We hope that we find you with glass in hand and snacking on crisps and chocolate

It’s that time of the year when we are all able to forget about the day job for a few days and concentrate on catching up with the people we care about – friends, family and the occassional overly-affectionate drunk on the tube. But it’s all good.

As it’s Christmas Eve eve we thought we’d better squirt out a quick crimbo message to you all – while we are still able to form sentances and get most of the spelling correct.

It’s safe to say that you have all made our 2011 memorable and that each and every one of you has made even the trickier times fun. We count ourselves very lucky to have had your support over the last 3 years and we can’t wait to show you what we have in store for 2012 – we’re kind of giddy about it already!

But, before we get into what we are planning for next year, we want to take this opportunity to thank every single one of you gorgeous SUBSETTERs for buying the Mahogany EP that we released in June. We are proud of it, you all made it happen, and everyone seems to like how it came out. Remember – Mahogany would never had been made if it wasn’t for you. Thank you.

We have another EP planned for early in the new year and we hope to be hitting more festivals in 2012!

Rob, Rom and Jay all look forward to seeing you in the new year and, hopefully, the three amigos will be joined by a full-time drummer in order to venture once more as the Fuzztastic Four!

Fuzzy Christmas and a Rockin’ New Year from all at SUBSET HQ

Much love and peace

How the devil are you all?

As you have probably gathered by the not-so-subtle title above, the lads are off being unsober right now celebrating their third year together as SUBSET

That’s right – it was a dark evening in Milton Keynes, back on November 29 2008, that first saw Rob, Rom, Jay and Steve step in to a rehearsal studio together as a band to start writing what would be first unleashed to the public 4 months later. When you think that Christmas and New Year was in amongst that time it’s pretty remarkable that they managed to stay away from parties for long enough to write anything!

Looking back at those early days Jay reminisces: “Rob, Rom and I had worked together in bands before and when we started toying with the idea of forming a back-to-basics, DIY, plug-and-play no frills rock band Rob introduced us to Steve – 4 months later we were on the line-up at The Motherbar in Hoxton; albeit as ‘But We Barely Know Each Other’. Good times!”

Over the three years there has been no sign of them slowing down.

Rom says: “We are always writing the next EP or the Album. We have always ideas and they are filed away in a secret bunker in Iceland ready to fill everyones headphones and speakers with fuzz!”

SUBSET has managed to self-release 2 EPs and 3 singles, a total of 12 tracks many with videos (check out their YouTube channel!) with another release pencilled in for early 2012.

Rob adds: “As well as writing and recording our main passion is playing live. We love to have a hectic gigging schedule and we’re often hitting 3 gigs a week with the occassional 2 gigs on the same day just to keep it spicy”

Adding to that spice SUBSET have decided to throw their collective hats in the ring and challenge Simon Cowell’s “Corporate Karaoke” X-Factor winner for Christmas Number 1. Even though the three amigo’s would love to see Lucid Dreamer on this year’s top spot they would like the single to generate some cash for Shelter.

“There’s lots of people sleeping rough and you can see it everywhere in London. People are spending £100s on gifts ignoring those that have no one to help them and nothing to celebrate, so we want to send the money from this campaign to Shelter so that it can help” says Rom.

To join the campaign and raise some money for a very good and much needed cause head over to the special Facebook page here: Lucid Dreamer for Christmas Number 1

Even though you might want to go and buy that track right now – WAIT! – buy it between December 12th and 16th so that it get’s counted for the Christmas chart, you never know

We look forward to sharing the next 3 years and beyond with you SUBSETTERs!

Happy birthday Fuzzsters!

Has it really been almost a month since we last chatted?

That’s ridiculous but just goes to show how time flies when you’re working hard and partying even harder!

So, I feel that an update as to what the lads have been up to these last few weeks is in order – what do you think?

That was a rhetorical question by the way – I’ve cranked up this computer so it’s going to get used!

Now then… where should I start…? (yet another one of those rhetorical things).

Well; Rob, Rom, Jay and Arran all took a trip to the south coast (granted, Arran was already there) to record some brand new SUBSET material. I realise that I am ever so biased but the rough mixes sound huge! RR&J would like to thank Arran for not only providing his most excellent skills as a drummist but for being the perfect host. Thanks also to Debi and Blyth for sharing their home with the terrible trio.

The fruits of their recent labour should appear early in 2012 but, as I said, the tracks do sound promising even though their temporary names are as silly as you’d expect from this lot.

The Diverse FM showcase went down a storm and the lads came away from the stage buzzing (and drinking). They knew it was going to go well when the bus driver on the way from Luton to Dunny asked for a CD! Many CD’s were handed out and the Three Amigos met and chatted with as many SUBSETTERs as they could – sorry if they didn’t get to you.

Thanks to all of you that made it to the show at Go Bowling in Dunstable – especially Daz for constantly feeding the guys with beer!

As the Chief Web Monkey mentioned last time, SUBSET are back at the Arc this coming Friday (11th November) and will then be playing some tunes at The Hideaway’s first Grunge Club Night. That’s right – SUBSET and their friends have been allowed to share their music collections in public! Come on down and check out their floor-fillers

It then goes a bit experimental with a host of Unplugged sessions at North 19, The Boogaloo and the Horatia but, come November 18th, they will all be back at full volume to help good friends Calling All Astronauts celebrate their debut single release at Nambucca!!!

Naturally, CAA will be headlining this special night and, as well as SUBSET adding some fuzz rock to the proceedings, Byron and Tribal Riot feature on the no-holds-barred line-up! After the live tunes have finished there then will be a club night with DJs from Teenage Kicks, Unbelievable and Beautiful People playing Alt Rock, Heavy Indie, Post-Punk, Emo, Industrial, Goth and Nu Metal favourites.

Add you name to the Facebook Event list here.

Click here for the £3 advanced tickets

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November 25th will see the lads back down on the south coast – this time at Felpham Community College in Bognor Regis helping to get the ‘Raise ya Hands’ event noticed and heard. Let’s face it, if there’s anyone that can make themselves heard it’s this bunch of mother-fuzzsters! This charity event is to raise money for deprived young people overseas – a VERY worthwhile cause.

November will be nicely rounded off the day after (that’s the 26th folks) with a special night hosted in SUBSET’s secret hideout – The Fuzz Cave!

As always – the full gig details can be found on the Gigs Page of the official SUBSET website – anything else you need to know, just hop on to the Facebook Page, the Facebook Group, squirt them an email or say hi on Twitter.

Sorted.

Wollop.

Hello SUBSETTERs!

It has been a while aint it?

It’s actually been over a month since we dusted off our futuristic typewriter and punched out a few words to be displayed on the interweblogosphere so it has fallen to me, Chief Web Monkey, to attempt to throw a few words, sentences and, should I be brave enough, paragraphs together in order to service an update to you – the mighty army of SUBSETTERs!

~there really should be some soul-stirring music right there but hey, we’re on a budget remember!~

Anyhoooo……

SUBSET Need a Permanent Drummer

What’s been happening at SUBSET HQ lately has been the continued quest for a drummer. We’re even getting to the point where talk about letters to Santa are being taken seriously.

They have assistance – Dan has been tremendous and Arran has been mind-boggingly supportive. You see, we are based in London and yet Arran, a music student, travels all the way from Chichester on the south coast on Saturday morning to spend 4-or-so hours with the lads in the Fuzz Cave only to then head back home. This is a round trip of 6 hours folks!

Now, if a fan, SUBSETTER and friend can do this surely there is a more local drummer that would enjoy touring with Rob, Rom and Jay? Is there?

SUBSET is a democracy – everyone has a say in what music is written and released. Everyone is free to bounce riffs, rhythms and rhubarb back and forth and the band already is actively seeking festival slots for next year.

This year it was planned to beat the 2010 achievement and hit the magic 100 gigs in 1 year – the fuzzy foursome were on target but as the three amigos are having to plead with drummers that are already busy doing what they do, unfortunately, some shows are having to be rescheduled.

RR&J hate having to give back-word to those hard working promoters and gig-setter-upperers but, lets face it, SUBSET wouldn’t be SUBSET without those pounding beats.

Still Planning

The lack of a fixed drummer does not mean that the fuzzy threesome have been sat drinking Sancerre in the Autumn sun – no way José!

There are a few new songs being prepared for the live shows and there are plans afoot to have a SUBSET drum-kit which will live in the Fuzz Cave so that the lads can release their inner Lombardo, Carey, Grohl, Benante, Freese or Bonham. Chances are it will sound more like them releasing their inner Animal though The upshot of this is that they can continue to write and record new material for the upcoming EP/Album without having to order in a take-away drummist every time.

Still Gigging

SUBSET do have some shows coming up too!

The nearest being a Halloween Special in Dunstable being thrown by Diverse FM featuring big friends of the fuzz: Dutch Order and As Daylight Dies. The party is happening at Go Bowling! and should be plenty of fun!

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The lads then head down south for gigs in Plymouth, Ivybridge and Gloucester before returning to The Arc in Angel, London.

The last time SUBSET were at The Arc they packed the place and so have been asked to come back to see if it was actually just a fluke. Come on down as it’s free to get in and the pizzas are amazing – so’s the deals on Jagermeister

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SUBSET are especially proud to have been asked to help with a charity fund-raiser down in Bognor Regis. The ‘Raise ya Hands’ event will be taking part at Felpham Community College so, if you’re in the area, please come along and see how you can help.

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Well, I hope you feel suitably updated and that I haven’t been too rubbish – I’m kinda out of practise with this kinda thing. I usually have my underlings perform such basic duties.

Oh, well – it’s what team work is all about I suppose.

Until next time SUBSETTERS – Drink, Dance and Burn!

All here at SUBSET HQ have been blown away (again) by the talent of you SUBSETTERs!

First it was the anonymous video for Silent Treatment that was passed on to us, then our good friend Dan Zagni produced a video for Ambrosia – and now comes a video treat from 11 year old Jay Sillito!

Yeah, you read that right people – this young dude has produced a video for Lucid Dreamer that cannot fail to leave you with a big ol’ grin on your face.

We can’t stop smiling every time we play it so we felt that we just had to share this with you :0)

Just in case no video appears above click here to see it on our YouTube Channel

Hello SUBSETTERS!

The lads are getting ready to ramp up the road-trippin’!

Last weekend saw the fuzzy foursome play a pair of festivals (Luton Aid 7 for Keech Hospice and The Hoops Inn Festival partnered by The Henry Moore Foundation). This coming week or so they have a stack more gigs which will get the fuzztastic four hitting the road.

Before we go any further, with all of these gigs coming up and none getting cancelled, you may have already worked out that the lads have found someone to step in to pound the skins!

Dan Hale has offered his services to cover the vacant position until someone more permanent presents themselves. Dan was thrown in at the deep end as he was on the Luton Aid 7 stage a mere 2 days after being recruited and then was put through the ringer again on the Sunday.

Luton Aid 7 was a success for all involved and Dan powered through his first ever SUBSET show. The Hoops Inn Festival was a lovely jaunt into the Hertfordshire countryside where fields and thatched cottages were in abundance – unfortunately the wasps were out in force too! Any new moves created by the band on stage were unintentional as they were more concerned with avoiding the stripy agro insects!

There’s more fun ahead for SUBSET starting this Wednesday:

August 24th has the guys opening a night of rock for Italian headliners The Sexual Disorders at The Standard in Jay’s neck-of-the-woods – Walthamstow.

Friday August 26th sees SUBSET returning to the famous Monto Water Rats – for some reason this place keeps asking them to come back.

Sunday August 28th is a roadtrip up to the Midlands and The Pulse Festival held at Coven Heath’s Four Ashes.

As it’s a Bank Holiday the lads have taken up the offer to rock the Peterborough Beer & Music Festival on Monday 29th August.

Never shy of beer the crazy quartet head down to Kent for the Beer & Music Festival at The Oak and Ivy on September 3rd.

Up to press the guys have the following week off to catch their breath, mildly detox before getting back on stage at The Grove Festival in Dunstable on September 17th.

The details of these and all of the other gigs booked can be found at SubsetBand.com/Gigs.

Hey there you sexy SUBSETTER you!

All here at SUBSET HQ have managed to stay well clear of the recent riots in the capital – to be honest, we passed out on Friday night and woke up this morning feeling a bit 28 Days Later.

As we got the bill to renew our domain name today it reminded us that another online year has been and gone which marks the second year of the fuzz rockers official online presence at this address.

Now, we’d normally have some jolity, some drinking and some dancing bears…. errrm… dancing bare naked women – but we find ourselves having to wave a cheerio to Hitman Higgs a.k.a. ‘Lovely’ Steve.

Steve’s world has changed and he feels that he is unable to juggle both lives as SUBSET steams ever forwards – the lads are all still good, close friends – let’s face it, they’ve lived in each others pockets and on each others floors for two-and-a-bit years so those bonds are going to be difficult to break.

‘Lovely’ Steve will still be gigging with SUBSET until a permanent replacement is found so make sure you drop by one of the next shows to give Higgsy a big hug!

There will be a roster of drummers covering some of the shows Steve can’t make so we ask you make Arran (Sassy Judys) and Joao (London sessionist) amongst others that shall be introduced to you all very welcome.

If you know of a drummer or, if you are indeed a drummer yourself and fancy jumping on to the fuzz train, then slip the lads a message on facebook or click the ‘mail’ icon at the bottom of the page or even use the ‘book SUBSET’ form on this site and let them know.

Their music can be found on Soundcloud but chances are you have it already.

The next two shows are:

Aug 12th: Top Bell Leighton Buzzard

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Aug 19th: Hat Factory – Luton Aid

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All the other gigs can be found on the Gig Page