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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAs they take to the stage, this sold-out room is packed, with no room to swing a cat. I make my way to the side of the room out of the way of the inevitable carnage that\u2019s about to happen. Young & old, men & women, black & white, everyone is welcome here, and it\u2019s great to see. There are punks, thrashers and Skinheads all enjoying themselves as Pizzatramp thrash their way through a breakneck speed set. Frontman Jimmy is on fine form tonight, both in playing and with his banter with the crowd. The rhythm section is extremely tight as the band rip through plenty of bangers, \u2018Millions of Dead Goths\u2019 being an early highlight. We get \u201cI Got Work In The Morning\u2019,\u00a0\u00a0\u2018There\u2019s Been Murder\u2019, \u2018Flagshaggers United\u2019, \u2018Mr Slam\u2019, the pit is chaos, bodies everywhere, this is thrashtastic. As the set is about to end, one young member of the audience gives a shout for \u2018Cop Fetish\u2019, which Jimmy responds with a barrage 4 letter insults, as he can\u2019t remember how it goes. After a moment of deliberation, he gives the young man what he wants as they race to the finish line. Nice one, boys, that got us warmed up lovely on this cold January evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the break I make way downstairs to have a gander at the merch and fill my boots with a couple of extremely affordable Subhumans records, the band could never ever be accused of doing anything for the money, \u00a310 to get in, \u00a315 a record, \u00a310 a CD this is how Punk should be, no \u00a380 hoodies in sight which is such a rarity these days it\u2019s a pleasure to see and a testament to the bands character that they can still do this year in year out and give everyone there money\u2019s worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I set up camp in the same spot back upstairs,\u00a0and the band take to the stage. Frontman Dick Lucas informs the crowd, \u201cIn case you\u2019re in the wrong place, we\u2019re the \u2018Subhumans\u2019 and they proceed to blast through a classic opener \u2018All Gone Dead\u2019 from one of the greatest punk albums of all time, ‘The Day The Country Died\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No Subhumans gig is ever the same, this band change up the set every night and plays songs from their whole catalogue. The early part of the set is frantic, we get \u2018Drugs Of Youth\u2019, \u2018Evolution\u2019, \u2018Parasites\u2019 from the early EP\u2019s, all of which were released years before I was even born, and all stand the test of time. The lyrics are just as relevant now as back then. <\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWhat sets them apart from their fellow arachno\/crust punk contemporaries is how damn catchy the tunes are, I dare anyone to listen to \u201899%\u2019 off the fantastic \u2018Crisis Point\u2019 and not be singing along the next time you hear it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We get the one and only slower moment of the set with the reggae\/punk inspired \u2018Human Error\u2019, which Dick Lucas would do more of in his excellent other projects, \u2018Culture Shock\u2019 and Citizen Fish. When I say slower, I really mean the first minute or so before the song builds into a frantic finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like I said earlier, the band change things up live all the time. During the middle of the set, we are treated to four classics from the vastly underrated album \u2018Worlds Apart\u2019, again a testament to the band that they can remember every note, beat and lyric from a vast catalogue. \u2018Pigman\u2019, \u2018Businessmen\u2019, \u2018British Disease\u2019 and the biggest singalong of the evening so far, the absolutely cracking \u2018Apathy\u2019. \u201cDrink, sex, cigarettes, Ford Cortina, household pets, bombs, war, famine, death, an apathetic public couldn\u2019t care less\u201d sings Dick, and the crowd scream it back at him, outstanding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From here on, things get intense. The band is blistering, Dick doesn\u2019t stop moving for a moment, ridiculous energy, how he does it, I\u2019ll never know. The rest of Subhumans are keeping things extremely tight, Phil and Trotsky on bass and drums respectively keep the rhythm section thundering. Bruce on guitar is one of the best at what he does. This run of the last seven songs I\u2019m not kidding is one of the finest I\u2019ve heard by any band live in sometime it was near perfection in the track listing, the bass line of \u2018Society\u2019 kicks in and the place loses its shit, it doesn\u2019t let up here though, straight into the double salvo of \u2018Minority\u2019 and fan favourite \u2018Mickey Mouse Is Dead\u2019, next we\u2019re treated to the epic debut album closer \u2018Black and White\u2019. Dick stops to say there are a few more to play and asks a member of the audience to count in the next song, but there\u2019s a catch it\u2019s gotta be in Welsh, someone obliges and after Un, Dau, Tri, Pedwar the band rip into \u2018Peroxide\u2019 after that it\u2019s almost over with two songs left what could they be? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, it\u2019s possibly not only the band’s finest two songs ever, but these are two of the best punk songs of all time and I will die on that hill. The opening bass rumbles and the words \u201cNo I don\u2019t believe in Jesus Christ, my mother died of cancer when I was five\u201d is one of the most brutal opening lines to a song I\u2019ve ever heard, the song is simply titled \u2018No\u2019 and a classic it is and to finish the night we get \u2018Religious Wars\u2019 the limbs are flying and the singing is loud and proud. What better way to spend a Monday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Same time next year, please? As long as Subhumans are still playing, I will be there, long may they continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Author: Chris Davies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2025 was a fantastic year for gigs and possibly my most prolific year to date. I waste absolutely no time in kick-starting this year with a bang! I was off to see the anarcho-punk legends Subhumans. This seems to be a annual tradition, this is the third time I\u2019ve seen them around the exact same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7333,956,2751,8154],"class_list":["post-27810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-newport","tag-pizzatramp","tag-subhumans","tag-the-cab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27822,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions\/27822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n