Subway Sect - The Revival

The Revival

However, in the 1990s a slow Godard revival began. Backed by the re-release of his work on CD and numerous compilation albums, (notably Motion Records' 20 Odd Years...The Story of...., and Singles Anthology) Godard has recently returned to recording. He released a new album Long Term Side Effect (Motion) in 1998, and a single on the Glasgow record label Creeping Bent, with more work promised.

The 21st century has seen Godard unable to progress from his cult status setting, but in 2002 a CD was issued credited purely to the Subway Sect, thus reviving the name, if not the original band. Named Sansend, it was a sample and beats heavy collection of new songs, and it was followed three years later by Motion's Singles Anthology, which collected all single A & B sides.

Plans were reported that Godard was working on songs for the musical to be called "Blackpool", but this was abandoned as the series used original 1960s and 1970s recordings, which were mimed to by the stage actors.

Original Subway Sect guitarist and bass player, Rob Symmons and Paul Myers resurfaced as The Fallen Leaves in 2004, although Myers has since quit the band. Rob Symmons still performs and records with The Fallen Leaves.

In 2007 Vic Godard and a different band released "1978 Now", which re-recorded the original 1978 album as (as Godard indicated) they originally sounded when recorded for the lost album.

In 2011 Paul Myers rejoined Subway Sect. His first official gig back was at Nambucca in London on 28 October 2011. The latest line-up of Subway Sect includes former Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook.