Subhumans
The Subhumans are an English punk band formed in the Trowbridge and Melksham area of Wiltshire in 1980. Dick Lucas joined later in the year, having formerly been in another local band, The Mental. Other members had been in The Stupid Humans. The band's musical style is typically classified as hardcore punk or anarcho-punk.
The band released a demo in 1981. It was heard by members of the band Flux of Pink Indians, after being sent to them by Graham Burnett of the New Crimes fanzine, and the band were so impressed that they offered the Subhumans a chance to put out a record on their newly formed Spiderleg record label. Shortly afterwards the Subhumans began to release material on their own Bluurg Records label.
Subhumans broke up at the end of 1985, with a final 12" record released the following year. Lucas formed Culture Shock in 1986 and then Citizen Fish in 1990. Subhumans had a brief reunion for a couple of shows in about 1991, and a more comprehensive one in 1998, which included UK and U.S. concerts and turned into a semi-permanent return of the band as a touring entity - including at least two major tours of North America in the 21st Century, (Live in a Dive was a product of the first).
Subhumans recorded a new album, Internal Riot, and self-released it on Bluurg Records in September 2007. They toured in Europe throughout 2007, and a month-long U.S. tour began on 24 August that year.
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