CUD live - celebrating 4 decades

"Celebrating four decades of rich and strange indie classics, CUD promise a medley of early earworms, chart hits and newly minted melodies."

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, with a further 
reunion following in 2012 (now with original guitarist and key songwriter Mike Dunphy) and continue to find an 
army of ‘Space CUDets’ still eager to sing along, dance like fruitcakes and invade their stage. 

Read more about Cud on Last.fm.