SUGAR

**THURSDAY 4TH JUNE / DOORS & BARS OPEN 6:30PM / SHOW STARTS APPROX. ONE HOUR AFTER DOORS / SHOW ENDS APPROX. 10:30PM**

**This is a 14+ event. Under 18s must accompanied by an adult 21+ (max. 2 U18s per adult 21+)**

**SUGAR has partnered with PLUS1 so that £2 from every ticket sold will go to organizations working to support and empower the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ communities. www.plus1.org**

Having already placed his indelible mark on modern music with **Hüsker Dü** and solo album ***Workbook***, **Bob Mould** enlisted bassist **David Barbe** and drummer **Malcolm Travis** leading to the formation of **SUGAR**, who made their live debut in early 1992 at Athens, GA’s famed **40 Watt Club**. Named by ***NME*** as its 1992 **Album of the Year**, SUGAR’s now-classic debut album, ***Copper Blue***, immediately proved a sensation, earning worldwide acclaim and landmark status for the melodic strength and intensely cathartic popcraft of songs like **'A Good Idea'**, **'Helpless'**, and the alternative rock radio hit and ***MTV* favourite**, **'If I Can’t Change Your Mind'**. The trio quickly found themselves performing on increasingly larger stages, including a legendary show-stealing set at London’s **Great X-pectations Festival** in Finsbury Park.

With the wind at their back, SUGAR unleashed ***Beaster*** in 1993, making a momentous debut at #3 on the UK’s **Official Albums Chart** as well as at #4 on **Billboard’s Heatseekers** chart in the US. Though recorded during the same sessions that yielded Copper Blue, the six-song mini-album evinced a more visceral energy and dark melancholy than its predecessor, highlighted by such pulverising expressions of sacrilegious fury as '**Judas Cradle**' and '**JC Auto**'. 1994’s second full-length LP, ***File Under: Easy Listening*** once again made an explosive arrival among the **top 10** on the **UK Official Albums Chart**, this time landing in the upper reaches of the overall **Billboard 200.** The album saw SUGAR pushing boundaries yet again on songs like the Americana-tinged '**Believe What You’re Saying**' and the incendiary '**Gee Angel**', tackling a wider range of musical approaches without sacrificing their signature intensity and unrestrained power. Despite their successes, SUGAR called it a day following a Japanese tour in early 1995. A series of live recordings, reissues, and anthologies served to magnify the band’s legacy over the three decades since, confirming SUGAR as incontrovertible masters of high-volume guitar-fuelled rock for the ages. The original members of SUGAR reconvened in June 2025 to record '**House Of Dead Memories**' & '**Long Live Love'**, the first new SUGAR songs in over three decades.

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This is a 14+ event. Under 18s must accompanied by an adult 21+ (max. 2 U18s per adult 21+)