Vic Godard - Subway sect archive

"Mick is on every track bar one, I think...but he doesn't play one note of guitar on the whole album. It's mainly keyboards and percussion. I said Mick, it's the first time we've met when someone hasn't died"

"At a residency at the Gibus Club In Paris the following year, the group performed with their backs to the audience, and ducked out of a potentially headline-grabbing jam with Nico..."

Vic describes the sound that he's aiming at with Subway Sect: "It's very caypso orientated. Should go down well in disco's but probably won't".

"Vic's a New Wave John Noakes"

"..my uncle Don, who was a postman and a Chelsea fan. His delivery was in Bond Street and then he went on the TPO (Travelling Post Office) to Scotland,....He taught me all the counties of Scotland before I had a chance to go to school! "

 "The door squeak? Yeah, it’s just one of those great moments that had to happen. I love intros to songs, they’re a big thing for me. You can’t always get that; something that’s an accident which makes for a great intro is special."

Guardian: November 2014.

Preview of the 100 Club show with The Subway Sect.

 " I don’t really plan things at all really, I just do as much stuff as I can and hope that as much of it comes out, but a lot of my songs never come out. A very small proportion of songs that I write actually see the light of day."

"Um ...I've always listened to the old standards, I've always admired them but I never really thought that I'd be able to do it" ... but, the more I learned, the more I got towards it and then, one day, I just decided that's what I was gonna do."