Curve

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Curve is a British music group formed in 1991 chiefly around the collaboration of singer Toni Halliday and guitarist Dean Garcia. The two were introduced to each other by fellow musician Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, briefly forming a group named State of Play in the late 1980s before parting ways and then reuniting for their more long-term partnership in Curve. Their music being typified by heavy beats and Garcia's densely-layered guitar tracks set against Halliday's airy vocalization of lyrics that frequently explore such topics as alienation, addiction and love on the wane.

After nearly a decade-and-a-half of partnership backed by an ever-changing line-up, during which time the band broke up at least once in the mid-1990s, Halliday announced on their official web site in early 2005 that the group had finally run its course and was no more. Whether this is their final curtain call or just their most recent hiatus remains to be seen.

Antonia "Toni" Halliday is the lead vocalist/lyricist and sometimes bass player of the British band Curve, as well as the wife of producer Alan Moulder. She was born on 25th January 1965. She left the band on 1/31/05 after serving as the band's lead singer starting in 1989. She worked with Dean Garcia (bass) and the two made several singles and full-length albums. Full-length albums include the following: Doppelganger (1992), Cuckoo (1993), Come Clean (1998), Open Day at the Hate Fest (2001), Gift (2001), New Adventures of Curve (2002), and The Way of The Curve: 1990-2004 (2004). Her style of singing - influenced at the same time by the deep warm tone of Chrissie Hynde and the more exotic neo-Goth warble of the Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser - was to influence Shirley Manson, vocalist of American post-grunge pop-rockers Garbage, who appropriated from Curve's template and turned it into what was ultimately mainstream fodder with the trappings of 'edge'. Curve and Halliday unfortunately were never to find the same degree of fame, perhaps understandably in view of their unwillingness to dilute their sound. Toni Halliday's current music activities are unknown. Dean Garcia continues work with his daughter on the project Dog Lab.

Discography
EPs
Blindfold 1992
Frozen 1992
Cherry 1992
Fait Accompli 1992
Horror Head 1992
Blackerthreetracker 1993
Blackerthreetracker 2 1993
Superblaster 1993
Pink Girl With The Blues 1996
Chinese burn 1997
Coming up Roses 1997
Coming up Roses 2 1998

Albums
Doppelgänger 1992 (UK #11)
Cuckoo 1993 (UK #29)
Come Clean 1998
Open Day At The Hate Fest 2000 (internet-only release)
Gift 2001
The New Adventures Of Curve 2002 (internet-only release)

Collections
Pubic Fruit, 1993 (first 3 EPs and Faît Accompli single)
The Way Of Curve 2004


Curve : Clipped


Curve : Fait Accompli