CUD 1992/2022 Tour

CUD are celebrating 30 years of Rich and Strange, and Asquarius with a UK tour this autumn.
Expect the best of 1992, old faves, fresh delights, big tunes and banter. We’re dropping in on some different venues this time, and finally returning to Scotland and Wales. Check out the dates below. Tickets available here.

SEPTEMBER
Sat 17: High Wycombe, Speakeasy Festival, The Venue

OCTOBER
Fri 14: Halifax, Town Festival, Square Chapel
Sat 15: Newport, Le Pub
Wed 26: Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Thu 27: Leek, Foxlowe Arts Centre
Fri 28: Sheffield, The Leadmill
Sat 29: Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

NOVEMBER
Fri 4: Huddersfield, The Parish
Sat 5: London, The Garage
Fri 18: Newcastle, St Doms
Sat 19: Bristol, Thunderbolt

DECEMBER
Fri 2: Manchester, Yes
Sat 3: Birmingham, Castle and Falcon

Tickets available here.

CUD go to TOWN

CUD are joining the line-up for a new grassroots music festival in Halifax this October. Running from the 13th to 16th, TOWN will be taking place across several venues in Halifax, with CUD playing at the Square Chapel on Friday 14th with Wax Tree Cast in support. Tickets are now available here.

CUD to play Speakeasy Festival

CUD’s first got of 2022 has just been announced. The band will join a sterling link-up at the second Speakeasy Festival on Saturday, September 17 at The Venue, Bucks Student Union, High Wycombe. CUD are part of a weekend line-up including The Primitives, The Frank & Walters, Space Monkeys, The Kynd, Apollo Junction and Helen Love. Tickets are available now, here.

CUD join Long Division 2021

CUD’s new first post-lockdown gig is coming sooner than expected, at Wakefield’s excellent Long Division festival.

With two acts sadly having to pull out last week, we’ve agreed to fill in the gap and are playing Saturday, September 25 afternoon at Wakefield’s WX (the Old Market Hall), with Brix and the Extricated, Lanterns on the Lake, Glasvegas and The Futureheads. Get there early!

Tickets that give you full access to this and other venues on the day (for The Lovely Eggs, and many more) are still available. Click here for details.

New single: Switched On

Available for pre-order now, CUD have a new single, Switched On b/w (I Like You) Better When You’re Not Around.

Recorded in Leeds, Switched On was road-tested on the last CUD tour and will be available as on 7″ coloured vinyl and as a digital download from September 9.

And here’s the new video!

Click here to pre-order.

Tim’s Twitter Party Replay

Missed all the action on March 4 when CUD joined Tim Burgess’ Twitter Listening Party for our Showbiz album (now available on all streaming services)?

Fear not! You can relive it by replaying the tweets in real time. Get your album ready and click here to start!

CUD 2021 Tour!

As revealed at last night’s Tim’s Twitter Party, CUD are returning after COVID kept us apart. 12 dates ahead, as below. See you in the autumn!
Tickets for every show can be found here.

Tim’s Listening Party: Showbiz

Join the band – @CudBand, @willcud, @CarlPuttnam, @mikedmfy and @GogsByrn on Thursday March 4 from 9pm for an official Twitter Listening Party c/o Tim Burgess’s @LlSTENlNG_PARTY

If you don’t have the rare vinyl or CD (or cassette!) fear not, for Showbiz is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer!

See you then for music, reminiscences and gossip.

Showbiz streaming this month

After much demand, from the band and Space CUDets, Showbiz is finally coming to music-streaming services. CUD’s final album for A&M, released in 1994 and now deleted, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer from January 22.

Twitter Listening Party, anyone?

Leggy Mambo tribute

Some folks may know that bassist Will Potter also writes books – mostly non-fiction and puzzle books for kids (see here). Currently he’s collaborating with the illustrator Gareth Conway on a pair of Turing Test titles.

Gareth, it turns out is a CUD fan from way back, and shared this lovely tribute to our Leggy Mambo album. Thanks, Gareth! You can see more of Gareth’s work here. Anyone fancy a print?