Writing in a rock band with Billy Lunn of The Subways

Billy Lunn is the singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer of the UK-based rock band The Subways. The Subways released their debut album Young for Eternity in 2005, and they’ve just released their fifth album, Uncertain Joys, on January 13, 2023. Billy grew up on a swirling mix of Motown, rock, disco, dance, hip-hop, and pop, which he gently weaves into the band’s own alternative rock sound. He writes and produces other artists’ work as well as The Subways’ in the studio he’s established in his hometown in the county of Hert-ford-shire. 2023 and 2024 are both shaping up to be exciting prospects, as The Subways look to tour Uncertain Joys the world over, writing the next album in the process.

Billy shared his song Alright – download the lyrics to follow along.

• Dreamtonics Synthesizer V virtual singer software
• Rhyme Genie – new low price!
• Physicists Have Unraveled The Secret To Swing
• The passing away of legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach
• How Billy finds that going on tour is a very fruitful experience for new songs, and how it compares to recording in the studio
• How collaboration in the band has evolved over the years
• How phonetics, rhymes, syllabic inflections, and meter are essential to Billy’s writing
• How editing your songs is super important
• Is it a chorus or is it an extension of the pre-chorus?
• When should you bring in your hooks in a short song?