Founding member and original drummer Josh Morgan left the band for personal reasons in October 2020.

They later changed their name to Platypus, and began to tour small local venues, such as The Square in Harlow, Essex.

The band released several demos and EPs in their early days when playing the London circuit in the UK.

Through the use of their own home recording system they now had roughly eight demos worth of songs both on the internet and being sent out to local and London promoters at various venues.

The Subways then began touring in the local and London area playing regularly at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury and Islington.Having the home recording system also proved useful for production: the band felt that it would not only benefit themselves, but other local bands who could not afford the studio prices, even in the Welwyn Garden City area.

"I was producing a local Welwyn Garden City band in my front lounge one day and I noticed that it was quite good so I asked if they were going to send it to any London venues, because I knew a few that would like it.

The CD we sent off to Michael Eavis was literally one among a bunch of 30 that were being sent out to London promoters for a load of gigs we wanted to book.

The Subways appeared during the seventh episode of the third season of The O.C., "The Anger Management", performing two songs at the music venue 'the Bait Shop', "Rock & Roll Queen" and "Oh Yeah".

They played a "secret" gig in The Green Room in their home town of Welwyn Garden City on 16 June, and also as support for the Foo Fighters in Trafford at the Lancashire County Cricket Ground on 18 June (along with Eagles of Death Metal, Angels & Airwaves and The Strokes).

On 18 February 2008, the band recorded their live video at The Stoke Sugarmill for their first single, "Girls & Boys", which was released as a free download from their website on 25 March 2008.

On 24 February 2008 in an exclusive interview found on www.sundaymail.co.uk, Lunn revealed he and Cooper split up in June during studio-sessions for The Subways' second album, All or Nothing.

Rock and Roll Queen plays in Saints Row 2 The Subways perform three songs in episode 10 of Series 2 (2008) of Live From Abbey Road: "Oh Yeah" from Young for Eternity, and "Strawberry Blonde" and "I Won't Let You Down" from All or Nothing.

In 2009, the band played at the biggest open-air festival in Europe (400,000 – 500,000 rock fans every year) – Przystanek Woodstock[5] in Poland.

The band later embarked on a European tour in support of the album, including shows at the Manchester Academy 2, London KOKO and Madrid Sala Caracol.

On 16 February 2015, it was announced that drummer Josh Morgan was to temporarily leave the band after suffering from acute stage-fright caused by Asperger syndrome.

A professional drummer and friend of the band was asked to take over from Morgan's position while he sought help for his condition.

[12] On 19 October 2020, it was announced on The Subways' official Twitter account that founder and drummer, Josh Morgan, had left the band for family reasons.