CUD play a medley of their indie classics, from early earworms and chart hits to new songs, at The Continental in Preston.
CUD are playing The Continental on Friday 30 October, their first Preston date in a while. They're celebrating four decades of indie classics with a medley of early earworms, chart hits and newly minted melodies, delivered in their brand of unrepentant good-time indie pop. It's a set that reaches back across their whole career, so you'll hear the old songs alongside the newer ones.
The band emerged from the same Leeds art and design scene that produced Soft Cell, Scritti Politti and The Mekons, and stood as the pre-Britpop answer to the era's doleful shoegazing bands: fun-loving, light-hearted, romantic and catchy. Fronted by Carl Puttnam's deep-lunged voice, with Mike Dunphy on edgy guitars and William Potter and Gogs Byrn on rhythm, they first made a name for themselves with a quirky 1987 Peel session cover of 'You Sexy Thing'.
Their 1990 album Leggy Mambo led to a major-label deal with A&M in 1991, front-page NME coverage and Top 30 hits 'Rich and Strange' and 'Purple Love Balloon'. They packed it in in 1995 but returned in 2006 and again in 2012, still drawing an army of 'Space CUDets'.
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Doors open at 8:00pm and the music starts at 8:30pm. General admission is £25.00, with a £2.50 booking fee on top.
