Who Are Subset?

You know – you could have a look at the Wikipedia entry. Just click here

……….so yeah I went to see this 4-piece rock band based in North London.

4 tall guys with looks emerging from a dirty rock album; they’re disillusioned by the lack of honesty compared with the amount of egos on the scene and aim to rectify this.

They have little cash and a tendency to crash into amps and fall over beer glasses and wine bottles on stage.

The bassist looks like a tall dark yeti with native American ancestry kicking out some kind of new wave capoiera. The drummer is a shy, precise, blue-eyed rumbling engine hidden under pounding waves of cadence the likes of which are usually found in a submarine torpedo exercise. The guitarist, with looks straight out of a shampoo advert that went completely wrong; his eyes glazed, lost in a Ramones’ music video. Lastly the singer: completely full of booze, unbalanced, with a style that’s a cross between Serge Gainsbourg, Kurt Cobain and Julian Casablancas but without any of the prestige. He seems totally possessed by the beat.

They appear to come straight out of a secret rock squat with no lights and no nonsense.

They have been likened to Joy Division, The Rakes, The Pixies, The Strokes and Noir Desir.

• Rom – vocals and guitar
• Rob – guitar and vocals
• ‘Lovely’ Steve – drums
• Jay ‘The Sheriff’ – bass and vocals