After finding a drum kit in a junk-yard, Carl Puttnam on vocals, Steve Goodwin on drums, Mike Dunphy on guitar and William Potter on bass, formed the band Cud in the English city of Leeds in 1987. Within two years, their quirky humour and complete disregard for self-respect had attracted a large cult following in Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and other northern England bastions of style and taste. Before their demise in 1995, Cud recorded four fully-fledged albums. 'When in Rome, Kill Me' (1989) and 'Leggy Mambo' (1990) were released on Imaginary Records along with 'Elvis Belt', a collection of their early singles. There followed a move to major label A&M and the release of 'Asquarius' (1992) and 'Showbiz' (1994). British DJ Legend John Peel invited the band to record a total of 3 sessions in their time for his radio show. Click here for the Peel sessions. A move to the Imaginary label enabled the band to blossom, creating their own groovy mix of kitsch and noise - the singles 'Hey!Wire' and 'Only (A Prawn in Whitby)' embodied this style, and proved firm favourites with the audience. The band's first album When in Rome, Kill Me was released on Imaginary in 1989, and received favourable reviews from the music press. Subsequent singles released on Imaginary were also well received by the music establishment. It has subsequently been mooted that Cud would have achieved mainstream success if Imaginary had been able to afford to splash out on publicity in the early days. In 1991 Imaginary folded, owing the band a substantial amount in royalties. Cud signed with A&M in 1991, leaving Imaginary to disappear into insolvency. The greater spending power at A&M enabled Cud to make their first foray into the charts with the singles 'Rich & Strange', 'Purple Love Balloon' and 'Neurotica'. All three made it into the British Top 40 charts. This initial success wasn't to be maintained however, and their 1994 album Showbiz was poorly received. During work on what would have been their sixth album, A&M dropped them, due to a 'problem with attitude'. Years later, Cud have reformed! Cud got back to wowing crowds at sold out gigs and released the very succcessful Anthology, Rich And Strange in 2006, this was followed up by 2 remastered albums with exclusive tracks added on which were released in 2007 along side a string of summer festival apperances. 2008 sees the reissue of the rest of CUD's back catalogue with extra tracks!
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Hiya You'll be able to hear a radio mix of our new single 'What Katie Did' on Sherwoodradios unsigned show on this saturday night (13th Sept) The singles released on Oct 31st
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We are also playing a warm-up headline gig at the New Roscoe in Leeds on Sunday 20th Sept
hope you can make it love K&Qs xxx
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Hiya What a summer its been!! We’ve been working hard in the studio and are currently recording our first commercial EP 'What Katie Did' which will be released around October time. You can hear a demo version on our MySpace.
We are not planning any live shows until we are ready to promote the EP but you never know we may pop up at a venue near you.
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Sorry for not having been in touch awhile - been rather busy! Just wanted to say that your valued friendship continues to be appreciated. Have you checked out my MySpace and web site (www.faberoptime.com) recently? Oh and did you subscribe for my free newsletter (using the form on site at page right - high quality, low quantity, no spam!)? You might also like to take a look at some of my vids on my YouTube channel too! www.youtube.com/faberoptime Take care and keep in touch. Best, Faber. "Just a guy trying to make the world a better place."
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Hey i love that profile song you have!!!! The video to it is pretty sweet. Yea Yea I been working Ive been pretty tired Ill call you when i get home today lil lis loves his daycare you should see the stupid badge with my picture on it I have to wear lol. but its all good, he loves the daycare, and its kewl that i can help out paying for it, know what im sayin? the extra money we made from taking those paid surveys online helped out so much!! you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. surveyblings .com La Te Da love ya talk to you laterzzzzzzzz O by the way Ill have more pictures to post before the lil lis's and my b-day uhhhh sometimes i feel so oldddddddd lol
Mackenzie and Ricky are getting married in May. How have you been doing? We are going Saturday and start looking at dresses. They didn't give me much notice but thats Mackenzie, right? LOL Oh hey! I already took the pics to be printed lol! Some of them were soo freakin hilarious! And i loved the picture of us ... it was sooo cute..so yah, guess what? 'member those surveys i was doing online? well, i got 2 checks so far! told ya it was real!! it aint like a ton of money, just like 175 so far, but its good coin to start with, right? you should really do it, now that i've gotten paid ..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. blingforwork .com ..Yeah I will probably see you soon =)
UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. blingforwork .com ... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "woah" right now. But I just wanted to take a second to remind you that you are Amazing!
Hiya We’ve been working on some new songs and are in pre-production for the recording of our first commercial CD release which will be recorded over the summer, with a hopeful release October time,
Our last live performance before our summer holiday will be at the Selby outdoor festival at the James Street 'bowling green' in Selby on the 21st June, the event starts at 1pm and we’ll be on stage at 5pm others on the bill are Dirty Secrets, Chantel McGregor, The Beautiful Sound, Last Gang and headlining is the Bryan Adams Experience, we hope you can be there.
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Hi Cud! Maybe you are interested to know that my album Robotism is finally available on iTunes and JunoDownload. On the album you will find all the tracks you might have heard on my MySpace-player and some more. Are you looking to buy new music that makes you want to dance and which will work really well at your next party? Just go to my page and you will find the links :)
Everyone at indiecater records would like to wish you a happy summer and let you know that there is an indiepop song from the Very Most available to download FREE from our site! http://www.indiecater.com
You know ever since the Barfly gig in Glasgow I've been listening to your stuff all over again. You guys still rock like a rockin chair rockin on a rocky outcrop in rockington roxville tennessee. Did I mention you guys rock?
Set list from Scala - as far as I remember it.. Purple Love Balloon Eau Water Only A Prawn BB Couldn't See Slack Time Vocally Speaking Punishment/Reward Relationship Strange Kind of Love Rich and Strange Not Exactly DLERC Magic Robinson Crusoe Love in a Hollow tree I've had it with Blondes Van Van Van Hey Boots
at this point i left to get my train...so if they played any more - I'm gutted. Top Night though.
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