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URBAN DOGS TIMELINE (including Gigography) Click here to view the timeline
URBAN DOGS NEW ACOUSTIC ALBUM UPDATE 
(August 2010) Charlie has confirmed to Time & Matter website that the new Urban Dogs album is very nearly fully mixed, and has also confirmed that the likely album title is going to be UNDERDOGS. Some of the songs are accoustic versions of Tomorrows Girls, War Babies and Warhead, as well as a cover of Hobo's Lullaby, which is a an old folk song covered by a few of Charlie's musical heroes, including Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliot. The opening line of Hobo's Lullaby is "Go to sleep, you weary hobo, let the town drift slowly by; listen to the steel rails humming, that's the hobo's lullaby."
Harper historians will know that one of Charlie's bands in the 1970s was called the Steel Hummers, who were named from these song lyrics. One of the brand new songs is called Not In Our Name, and there are also plans for a follow up Urban Dogs album in the not too distant future!
Latest info from Knox: (April 2010) This long awaited album is more than 3/4 done, recorded at Stan's (of Demented Are Go) studio, off Holloway Road, London. Songs include Urban Dogs' favourites such as "Limo Life", "War Baby", "New Barbarians", and the Subs "Warhead" to mention a few, plus some new songs. BORN A ROCKER DIE A ROCKER - THE MOVIE The excellent Vive Le Punk website has just (May 2010) exclusively announced news of a major documentary on the lives of two of punks’ most famous faces. Already in production, and with a host of well known stars already interviewed, there is more news promised soon from Eugene Butcher, who is making the film.
‘Born A Rocker Die A Rocker - the movie', will be the story of punk rocks' eternal flames, Charlie ‘UK Subs' Harper and the Vibrators' Knox, who have lived their life through music on a never ending world tour, because sometimes the music never stops...' Charlie and Knox have been filmed recording their new Urban Dogs LP in the studio since July 2009 and this promises to be a fabulous film homage to these two...
Coming to a screen near you in 2011’ More news when we get it...
URBAN DOGS BIOGRAPHY Taken from Knox's site: Started in 1982 by CHARLIE HARPER of the U.K. SUBS to play the 100 CLUB because the U.K. SUBS wouldn't... click here to read the full biography 
- Above: News Article, Noise magazine, 2nd September 1982.
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URBAN DOGS DISCOGRAPHY 
7" SINGLES: CD SINGLES: LPs: CD ALBUMS: CASSETTE ALBUMS: Click here for the 'Record Collectors Of The World Unite' discography URBAN DOGS TIMELINE (including Gigography) Click here to view the timeline KNOX'S U.K. SUBS PAINTINGS Pictured below are a couple of Knox's paintings, of obvious interest to visitors to this website. Thanks to Knox for permission to reproduce them, why not take a look at Knox's other art - click here Knox - brief art history:
"I went to art school in Watford around 1965 I think and then went on to art college in Bristol, then back to Watford. Although I was interested in painting I couldn't get on a painting course. I painted all the time between 1965 and 1992, that's what I was doing when I wasn't having to get money to live on when I was playing in the Vibrators, so I've accumulated quite a lot of work over the years. I've done portraits, landscapes, probably bits of everything, and if there was all the time in the world I'd paint a lot more." Painting 1:
"UK Subs" (2007) - Pen and acrylic on paper, approx 7" x 10 " (18cm x 25cm) 
Painting 2:
"UK Subs 1977" (2008) - Pen and acrylic on paper, approx 10 " x 7 " (25cm x 18cm) 
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