CUD will be gearing up for our summer dates with a show at Driffield’s The Crooked Tap on Friday June 7. This is an intimate show with very limited space so don’t delay if you want to see the band close up. Tickets for this and all of this year’s shows available here.
You want more CUD shows for 2024? How about this?
We’ve added another FIVE dates to the list, above, with a headline at the Ryland Caravan all-day fest in Birmingham on Saturday June 8, Sheffield The Leadmill on October 30, followed by Leicester The Musician (Oct 31), Cardiff The Moon (Nov 1) and York The Crescent (Nov 2). As always, tickets are available through the CUD ticket link!
Following the announcement of September shows in London and Bedford, CUD can now reveal a trio of shows leading up to the massive Kirkstall Abbey event with Embrace in July.
Join us on Wednesday July 24 at Bristol, The Exchange,
Thursday July 25 at Cambridge, The Portland Arms and
Friday July 26 at Newcastle, The Cluny.
Tickets for the new shows go on sale Friday at 10am via our ticket link.
Revealed! The first in a wave of new CUD shows planned for later this year. (Hope you like the homage to 1970s annuals!) First up, the band are returning to London‘s legendary 100 Club on Friday September 20. Tickets now on sale. here.
Then, on Saturday September 21, we’re back at Bedford‘s premier live venue, Esquires. Tickets on sale, here.
Will these be the last gigs announced for 2024? Stay tuned!
Following up on their massive 20th anniversary tour for the album ‘Out of Nothing’, Embrace have booked the scenic grounds of Leeds Kirkstall Abbey for an all-day event on Saturday 27 July, 2024.
The band will play a headline set featuring their classic fourth album plus greatest hits, with impressive support from Ocean Colour Scene, Ash, Sleeper, and CUD opening the one-off mini-festival.
Tickets are on general sale from Friday 17 November, 9am. Click here.
The CUD/Boo Radleys co-headline tour is just a fortnight away!
IMPORTANT NEWS REGARDING THE SHEFFIELD DATE:
Due to the temporary closure of O2 Academy Sheffield, we are having to move our show from there to Corporation, on the same date – all existing tickets remain valid. For anyone wanting tickets for this show, there’s a new link, here.
We can also reveal who is first and last on each night. REMINDER: BOTH BANDS ARE PLAYING FULL SETS EVERY NIGHT!
Bread Shed, Manchester – 28th Oct – CUD headline
O2 Academy2 Liverpool – 29th Oct – The Boo Radleys headline
Corporation, Sheffield – 30th Oct – CUD headline
O2 Institute2 Birmingham – 31st Oct – The Boo Radleys headline
The Fleece, Bristol – 2nd Nov – CUD headline
O2 Academy2 Oxford – 3rd Nov – The Boo Radleys headline
O2 Academy Islington – 4th Nov – We’ll decide this with the toss of a coin during the tour.
Note: The London show has a 10pm curfew, so the first band is on about 7pm!
If you have stomachs… WHEN IN ROME, KILL ME (AGAIN)
To celebrate 34 years and 4 months since its original release, CUD are reissuing this fabled LP with all the trimmings: remastered, on heavyweight 180g vinyl, and with a gatefold sleeve featuring new artwork and myriad clues to the When in Rome concept.
Pre-order your copy now 
https://linktr.ee/CUDband
or from our friends at Norman Records: https://www.normanrecords.com/
*All copies purchased via Greedbag will come SIGNED (unless you ask us not to!) and include a digital download code. The vinyl will also be available on our forthcoming tour dates with The Boo Radleys.
Because YULE demanded it! Because we just HAD to play Leeds.
CUD are wrapping up 2023 with an early Xmas show at the Brudenell Social Club on December 1.
With festive support from good-time glam band Vig Vam Bam, this promises to be a sensational seasonal shindig. Tickets are just £20 a pop, here: https://brudenellsocialclub.seetickets.com/event/cud/brudenell-social-club/2751362
Out today (July 28), two new CD box sets from Cherry Red Records. The first, ‘Where Were You?’ covers the Leeds music scene from 1978 to 1989 and features just about everyone, from The Mekons, Gang of Four, Age of Chance and Soft Cell to The Wedding Present, Pale Saints and CUD. This is a great testimonial for a vibrant scene often overshadowed by those of neighbouring cities. We chose perennial crowdpleaser ‘I’ve Had It with Blondes’ as our submission. Check out the full track-listing below.
Also out today is a 4-CD baggy-centric compilation ‘Come Together‘, covering the years 1989-1992.
Naturally, there are many Manchester bands featured including Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and James, along with dance remixes of The Primitives, The Soup Dragons, Julian Cope and the extended Farsley mix of CUD‘s Magic. Full track-listing below.
Both box sets are available through Cherry Red and the usual outlets.
CUD have been invited back to play the fantastic Shiiine On weekender late 2023. The event runs from 17-19 November at Butlin’s Minehead Arena with headliners this year including The Wonder Stuff, Inspiral Carpets and The Enemy. We don’t have details yet about when CUD are on, and which day but we’ll let you know soon. Hope to see some familiar faces there. Tickets and accommodation available here.
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