Cud, Autumn tour and London ‘Album’ shows
CUD return this autumn with UK headline dates, promise of new EP, plus London legs of classic album playback shows.
Leeds 90’s indie demigods, CUD, are set to return this autumn with a string of headline dates in support of yet to be titled new recordings.
Having more recently played gigs with 90’s contemporaries (including the excellent Gigantic all-dayer with Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, The Wedding Present, Chameleons Vox, The Sultans of Ping and The Frank and Walters), and two sell-out album playback shows at Leeds Brudenell Social in April, this first proper headline tour since summer 2012 is long overdue.
After the huge success of the two Leeds hometown album shows (When in Rome Kill Me and Leggy Mambo played in full on consecutive nights), two more special London dates have been incorporated.
York, Fibbers, Friday 24th
Birmingham, The Flapper, Saturday 25th
Newcastle, Think Tank, Wednesday 29th
**London, Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, Thursday 30th
***London, Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, Friday 31st
Manchester, Ruby Lounge, Saturday 1st
**Playing ‘When in Rome Kill Me’ in full.
*** Playing ‘Leggy Mambo’ in full.
All tickets go on sale at 10am on Tuesday 10th
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Emerging from the same art/design cauldron that produced fellow Leeds legends Soft Cell, Scritti Politti, and The Mekons, CUD were the pre-Britpop answer to doleful shoegazing bands – fun-loving, light-hearted,
romantic and downright catchy.
Alternatively loved or loathed like a yeast extract, CUD are indie rock for the unpretentious pleasure seeker, boasting as they do the rich deep-lunged voice of Carl Puttnam, edgy guitars of Mike Dunphy and tight, funky rhythm section of William Potter, bass and Gogs Byrn, drums.
CUD were initially lauded for their quirky Peel session cover of ‘You Sexy Thing’ in 1987. They soon built up a huge live following and buffed up their repertoire with a string of unstraight pop beauties, best exemplified by the 1990 album ‘Leggy Mambo’. This led to a major-label deal with A&M in 1991, front-page NME coverage, massive sellout gigs and proper Top 30 hits, ‘Rich and Strange’ and ‘Purple Love Balloon’.
Misunderstood by record companies and press, CUD packed away their guitars and sticks in 1995 but, bolstered by a greatest hits anthology (‘Rich and Strange’) in 2006, they agreed to tread the boards again and found an army of ‘Space CUDets’ still eager to sing along, dance like fruitcakes and invade their stage.
In 2012, CUD reunited with their original guitarist and key songwriter, Mike Dunphy, and the result is their first new material in 18 years, the perky 7” and download single ‘Louise’ b/w ‘Mexico’.
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