Celebrating four decades of rich and strange indie classics, CUD promise a medley of early earworms, chart hits and newly minted melodies when they come to Peterborough’s Met Lounge later this month .

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’.

You can catch CUD at The Met Lounge on August 28

placeholder image — You can catch CUD at The Met Lounge on August 28

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.

2013 saw the release of a ‘Complete BBC Sessions’ 4CD boxset, prompting the chaps to reconvene and hit the road once more, and there they have stayed, with annual tours ever since and sharing festival bills with the likes of The Wonder Stuff, Peter Hook, The Wedding Present, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and Embrace.

Ever excited to be hitting the stage, the band are looking forward to coming to Peterborough for the first time (we think) since 1991 and bring the memories of the indie- disco flooding back for a generation of old school indie kids, as well as entertaining some of the next generations (or 2!) who now accompany them.

Find out what their brand of unrepentant good-time indie pop is all about at The Met on August 28.