Subhumans Announces West Coast Tour Dates; New Album “Crisis Point” Out September 13th!
SUBHUMANS ANNOUNCES WEST COAST TOUR DATES
NEW ALBUM CRISIS POINT OUT SEPT. 13th
FIRST NEW MUSIC IN OVER A DECADE!
SUBHUMANS have announced their new album Crisis Point, which will come out September 13th on 12″ vinyl, CD, and cassette! This is the band’s follow-up to 2007’s Internal Riot.”Sorry about the decade wait for something new, we don’t get to practice much! Anyways, it’s a stormer, with ten new songs about terror/pollution/mind control…and similar reflections on a world in crisis,” says frontman Dick Lucas.The band will be doing east coast and west coast tours this fall in support of their new record.
September tour dates w/ FEA
09/05/2019 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern09/06/2019 – Montreal, QC – Foufounes Electriques09/07/2019 – Quebec City, QC – Envol Et Macadam Festival09/08/2019 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall09/09/2019 – Somerville, MA – Once Ballroom09/10/2019 – Brooklyn, NY – Kingsland09/11/2019 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar09/12/2019 – Durham, NC – Motorco09/13/2019 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade09/14/2019 – St Augustine, FL – Sing Out Loud Festival*09/15/2019 – Orlando. FL – Will’s Pub* = no FEA
October/November tour dates w/ Neighborhood Brats
10/19/2019 – Alameda, CA – Pirates Press’ “Rock The Ship ’19″*10/20/2019 – Fresno, CA – Strummer’s10/21/2019 – Ventura, CA – Discovery10/22/2019 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex10/23/2019 – San Diego, CA – Soma Side Stage10/24/2019 – Pomona, CA – The Glass House10/25/2019 – Las Vegas, NV – Vinyl Room @ The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino10/26/2019 – Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge10/27/2019 – Lancaster, CA – American Legion10/28/2019 – Morro Bay, CA – The Siren10/29/2019 – TBD – TBD10/30/2019 – Sacramento, CA – The Holy Diver10/31/2019 – Arcata, CA – RampART Skatepark11/01/2019 – Eugene, OR – Whirled Pies11/02/2019 – Portland, OR – Bossanova Ballroom11/03/2019 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon* = no Neighborhood Brats
ABOUT SUBHUMANS:
Subhumans are one of the most influential bands from the UK Anarcho-Punk scene of the 80’s, filed right alongside Crass and Conflict, and just as relevant today as they were during the darkest days of Thatcher’s Britain. Take your choice in how to label them – Punk, UK82, Crusty, etc, – there lies the attraction and consequent reason for their popularity, the band epitomizes non-conformity and connects with people in many different scenes.Forming in 1980, recording and releasing a series of live and demo cassette tapes on their own Bluurg label, they continued to release music throughout the 80’s – building a powerhouse of a back catalog that completely stands the test of time. Their debut LP ‘The Day the Country Died’ (1983), with its Orwellian influence, is considered by many to be a classic and has sold in excess of 100,000 copies.
The second album, ‘From the Cradle to the Grave’, came swiftly the following year (1984), and although the same frenetic pace is in evidence, this marks a significant musical development for the band. In 1985 Subhumans broke up, citing the usual musical differences, although had managed to release a third, maybe ironically entitled, LP ‘Worlds Apart.’ A final EP was released posthumously in 1986, ‘29:29 Split Vision,’ a further demonstration of how far the band had come musically from their initial leanings.Dick Lucas subsequently joined Culture Shock and then formed political ska-punk band Citizen Fish in 1990, both bands releasing many albums, and still playing today. Subhumans had a couple of reunion shows in the nineties, before a more permanent return for the 21st century, including 2 major tours of the US, the first resulting in the ‘Live in a Dive’ LP. The Subhumans then released a further studio album in 2007, ‘Internal Riot,’ again on Bluurg Records. The band is still passionate and angry, illustrated by Dick saying “Being in a band is the source of most of my passion and drive!
The live experience of sharing it with people keeps it ongoing, the release of anger, frustration and initially negative/destructive states of mind is a release from the downward spiral of keeping it all bottled up and it feels positive/constructive as a result.”The band have recently written ten new songs, which Pirates Press Records are thrilled to be releasing, and are embarking on a year of touring in both Europe and North America! First a split with The Restarts before a 12” of their own comes out in October of 2019! The social and political commentary of bands like Subhumans forged a path, along with their contemporaries, for punk to change lives and opinions around the world. Sadly the things they sang about forty years ago are largely just as important now, sometimes more so in an age of Trump and Brexit. We can’t wait to hear more of what they have to say about the current political climate, the immense imbalance of wealth and power, and the causes they hold near and dear to their hearts.
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