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Biography

CUT is a Rock'n'Roll/Punk/Noise trio from Bologna, Italy. Their sound has been described in many ways but the band's favorite is still: 'John Lee Hooker stuck in a post-punk straitjacket.' － pennyblackmusic.co.uk

Since their first inception in 1996, they have released seven studio albums and have been constantly touring all over Italy and Europe thus earning their reputation as one of the wildest and most intense live bands on the scene.

During the years, they've been sharing the stage with the likes of Iggy & The Stooges, Violent Femmes, Radio Birdman, Mudhoney, Heavy Trash, The Jim Jones Revue, The Make-Up, Unwound, Royal Trux, International Noise Conspiracy, Eels, Delta '72, Man Or Astroman, The Hives, Guitar Wolf, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds, and many other Italian and international acts.

Their debut album Operation Manitoba (1998 Gamma Pop) has been described as the best Italian rock debut of the year by Rumore, Italy's main rock monthly. The band has nineteen UK tours under its belt. This activity has allowed them to build a small but solid fanbase in the United Kingdom: hence their 2017 collaboration with Liverpool-based label Antipop for CUT's Second Skin album. Other international experiences include repeated tours of Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Switzerland, and shows in the New York area.

Their fifth studio album Annihilation Road (2010 Go Down Records) has been recorded and mixed by Matt Verta-Ray of Speedball Baby/Heavy Trash fame, at his New York studio NY HED, and mastered by Ivan Julian, from legendary punk/new wave outfit Richard Hell and The Voidoids. In October 2011, the band released a live album, recorded during CUT's UK tour of the same year. The Battle of Britain portrays the band in its favourite milieu － a fiery, intense, and wild live show. CUT has also released a 7" split with Rocket Recording artists Julie's Haircut, featuring a mash-up of Hot Chocolate's Emma and Suicide's Dream Baby Dream: weird but true.

In February 2017, CUT released its sixth studio album Second Skin. The record featured many guests among the band's friends and cooperators, like Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Iggy & The Stooges) and Stefano Pilia (guitar player in Rokia Traoré's band and Mike Watt's Il Sogno Del Marinaio). Since the album's release, the band has been touring non-stop all over Italy, Europe, and the UK. Mike Watt also appears on 'Bad Chromosome', CUT’s contribution to a 7" split between the Bolognese trio and Turin's Punk Blues outfit Movie Star Junkies, which came out in 2019 for Italian label Bloody Sound Fucktory.

Since 2014, CUT has also embarked on 'CUT Must Die', an ongoing cooperative venture in which the band is working on individual tracks in the company of some of their favourite humans. So far the band has released songs performed with the likes of Peter Bentham (from Liverpool's Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies), Matt Verta-Ray, Mike Watt, Andrea Rovacchi (Julie's Haircut) and Lilith-Rita Oberti, frontwoman of pioneering Italian voodoo punk rockers Not Moving.

In February 2024, the band unleashed Dead City Nights, their seventh studio album released by Improved Sequence. Critical reception has been very positive: UK leading punk fanzine Louder than War described the album as full of subtlety, space, and dynamism amid brazen guitar and drums. For the Belgian webzine Peek-a-boo － 'Clearly recorded. Perfectly played. And quite often, perfectly representing all the best qualities of a band. Dead City Nights is the case when a punk band gets ambitious to get outside of the ageless box of one genre […] the trio managed to reach out a strong and uncompromising result.' According to RPM Online － 'Great stuff. An impressive album that works really well as a whole or diving in now and then.'

LINEUP
Ferruccio Quercetti | vocals, guitar
Carlo Masu | vocals, guitar
Tony Booza | drums, percussion

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