THE SCUDS were founded in the fall of 1997 by two anti-social high school students: sarcastic, faux-British Jack Offalot and bathroom humor specialist Willy Kuffit. Offalot picked away at the bass while Kuffit blasted the guitar, and the two split the singing duties. They picked up drummer Master Bates somewhere along the way, and the rest is history.
Rumors of strange happenings at the trailer in back of 96 Victoria St. were beginning to spread even after the band's first two practices, and their reputation preceded them to their first show, the Noise Pollution II event in Berwick on Jan. 31, 1998. After bewildering the townsfolk for the five hours before the show with their odd antics, they climbed to the stage and blasted fourteen one-minute anthems at the dumbfounded audience, mostly metalheads and alterna-teens. When their gifts of plastic soldiers and Kinder Suprise toys were greeted with limited enthusiasm by the audience, Offalot berated the crowd with his best imitation of a British accent, calling them every unflattering name in his 15-word vocabulary.
At the end of the last song, Kuffit and Offalot inexplicably barked like dogs for several minutes, then babbled in an unknown foreign tongue for some time before abandoning the stage. Due to an error no cassette of this show exists, or of their second and final show, an even wackier event in Greenwood on February 27.
The Scuds reorganized their lineup (adding bassist Nick the Man of the Hour as Offalot moved to vocals only) and changed their name to the Suburban Casualties on March 9 1998. The next month, Offalot quit, and a new vocalist was added. Shortly afterwards, the bassist quit and the group disbanded.
On May 4 the Scuds re-formed as a four-piece, but only jammed once with this lineup. They broke up for good after the original trio made a home recording in August, which yielded the Scuds half of the Scuds/AVM split cassette. However, the possibility of a reunion still exists, and the band may reunite in the spring of 1999 to record a song or two for the upcoming Nova Scotia punk comp on the Magnetic Record Label.
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