And i've missed toni halliday ( Curve ) *

yep,just gave mine a spin,1989,all tracks produced by toni halliday & alan moulder,a few mixed by flood, WTG-CBS
track 7-dean garcia bass, track 3 mike campbell and dave stewart on guitars

 

I've had a 12" Curve box for about 15 years...it's content's are all vinyl and it has the Doppelganger LP plus 3 EP's (Horror Head, Fait Accompli and Frozen)

I can't find reference to this in their discography nor at discogs...anyone know anything about it?

 

I recently sold back that comp that came out some time back called The Way of Curve. What a disaster that was. Completely brick-walled, smashed and compressed to death. Bleh. The original EP's sound much much better, of course.

 

That's a pity....a good comp would have been ...good!

I think maybe my box is has been made up from this (the Horror Head EP box):
http://991.com/Buy/ProductInformation.aspx?StockNumber=19765&PrinterFriendly=1
and someone has added the LP and other EP's to it.

It's a best guess....

 

Curve was my favourite band from the nineties and early noughties, they were absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately I only saw them once, as they never came to Australia, so I had to travel halfway around the world to Chicago to see them, but it was worth it, they were awesome. I have all their albums and still listen to them regularly, Doppelganger is a brilliant, but Come Clean is my favourite, with RECOVERY being my all-time favourite song.

Toni Halliday was involved in a band called Scylla back in the mid nineties, they recorded an album but it was never released, but one of their songs, HELEN'S FACE appeared on the Showgirls soundtrack. The album was "released" for download about 8-9 years ago, but I don't know if it is available now.

 

Which Chicago show were you at? I was at the Double Door show. They were a great live band.

Wasn't she toying with doing something with Ronnie of Xymox at one point?

 

Oh Jeez, it was so long ago I don't remember exactly where in Chicago the concert was held, but it was in 1992 in support of the release of Doppelganger.

She collaborated with Anka Wolbert under the name BUD in 1993, but I don't think anything was released.

 

Ah cool. I saw them in Los Angeles for the Doppelganger tour. I'll have to check out her solo stuff.

 

Anke and Toni would of been something... Damn it never came to be
Anke put out a solo some years ago

 

If you go to their Bandcamp page there is a lot of stuff- they've recently added a bunch of EPs etc. just this week! These are downloads but you can grab them in FLAC

Curve »

 

I recently saw a thread (if you can call it that considering there were no replies) over at DVD Talk that said Dean Garcia's supposedly been hinting at a Curve reunion.

 

Dean has said he's trying to get something off the ground with Toni on Facebook...not sure if them putting the catalog up on Bandcamp is a good sign or a bad one.

 

Late reply; but there are lots of rare stuff on there some of which are ONLY available on there (like the extended version of Pink Girl With The Blues is exclusive to the set)

 

Most of them have been up there for years (how I filled in missing holes in my collection). Dean just added a bunch of eps, promo stuff and the Peel sessions in the last week--

 

New mixes by Foetus? Whaaaaaat?

 

Yeah, Dean put those up about a month ago.

 

I'm currently revisiting Curve's music and filling holes in my collection, etc. I went to the DR Database and basically everything Curve released after 1994 is brickwalled :

Album list - Dynamic Range Database »

Those dr #'s look real sweet on the early stuff.

 

Yep, Come Clean was a tough listen when I bought it on release, Gift, for some odd reason was/is more tolerable for me
Curve is pretty much anti-audiophile

 

Well, to be honest Curve's music isn't exactly easy listening <most of it, anyway> and tends to lend itself to that type of mastering. On the other, closed Curve thread somebody was complaining that the 1st 2 albums on cd were too quiet!!

 

That's funny

 

It's industrial...the loudness never bothered me!
Plus Gift is so damn brilliant I can't imagine live without those songs.

 

I'd love for a special edition of the first album and the early EPs

 

I wish they'd reissue the Curve albums all on vinyl! Hard to find, and most I believe were only sold in the UK.

 

I've got a German Porky Doppel and the UK Frozen EP, they are nice for the vinyl only junkie, but to me don't represent a SQ advantage because of the format

 

Their band camp os pretty exciting. I lost touch after the second album - do I need to hear the later stuff?