The
band formed under the name of subterfudge in '96 whilst in the
final year at school, then aged 16. Rob (Lead guitar), Tom
(Rhythm guitar) and Andy (Now ex-bassist) got together at the
weekends, stocked up with beer and pissed around jamming. They
decided to form a band, with a drummer who later joined called
Si. They played at local venues, pubs etc. Tom got restless
after a while and left, leaving Rob, Andy and Si as a three
piece. Then as time went on, Si became restless and left to
join another band as a drummer leaving them short. They went
trough several stand-in drummers until they found one to their
liking.
After a short time, Rob got talking to Dave (drummer) who at
the time played guitar for the band Si left to join. Turned
out Dave actually preferred drumming and joined Subterfudge as
their drummer. They started to record an E.P, 'The real deal
with my burger meal?' during this time Tom rejoined the band,
making the line up Rob, Tom, Andy, Dave.
They played with this line up for a while, even introducing a
few brass players along the way for several gigs and
recordings (Beth - Saxophone, Lex - Trumpet). Several name
changes were made along the way and they continued to gig with
quite a following gathering.
After the recording of 'How's My Driving?' Andy the bassist
left. Kyle (douggie) - who played the organ on 'Hopeless
Romantic' and helped out with the recording of 'How's My
Driving?' , joined as a replacement bassist. They gigged
about, and later met Darren (manager), who helped them get
shit loads of gigs, and from there, with requests to bring out
an album, they recorded 'At Your Convenience', their debut
album - released on JAMDOWN records.
They enjoyed a good
year and a half with douggie in the band until september '01,
when Russ joined the band as a replacement, bringing us to the
current line-up of: Rob, Tom, Dave and Russ
Which brings us pretty much up to date, now with constant gigs
around the U.K, gaining recognition in magazines such as
Kerrang, and tracks being played on American radio stations
things are looking good.
They
signed to Golf Records over the summer, on which they released
their latest, and hugely selling album 'From Hero To Zero'. To
promote the album they joint headlined the Golfing On The Moon
Tour with Whitmore, Mixtwitch, and Gash!
RELEASES:
'From Hero to Zero' - Golf Records
1. Proud To Know You
2. Burn The Bridges
3. Bright Side
4. Walk Away
5. All Down Hill From Here
6. Confused
7. One Way
8. Last Man Standing
9. Emergency Manoeuvre
10. Busted
11. Doubt It
12. Eye For An Eye
13. Carpe Diem
'At Your Convenice'
1. Brickwall
2. One For The Road
3. Pictures
4. Slowly Sinking
5. Killing Time
6. Coffee Grinder
7. My Song
8. Drunkenville
9. Hopeless Romantic
10. Learn To Survive
11. Broken Bones
12. Sense Of Direction
13. Goodbye, Good Luck
The
band formed under the name of subterfudge in '96 whilst in the
final year at school, then aged 16. Rob (Lead guitar), Tom
(Rhythm guitar) and Andy (Now ex-bassist) got together at the
weekends, stocked up with beer and pissed around jamming. They
decided to form a band, with a drummer who later joined called
Si. They played at local venues, pubs etc. Tom got restless
after a while and left, leaving Rob, Andy and Si as a three
piece. Then as time went on, Si became restless and left to
join another band as a drummer leaving them short. They went
trough several stand-in drummers until they found one to their
liking.
