Curve (Dean Garcia + Toni Halliday)

Hi all, transmitting right now over at Goths for Sanctuaries via Twitch is their latest online stream dedicated to raising funds for the Heartstone Veganic Sanctuary. In a few hours I'll be on it myself doing an online video mix that'll include a Curve track plus a couple of other Toni/Dean-related ones too. Times: 2100BST 'til 2300BST (i.e. 9pm 'til 11pm in the UK), though I'm also on an hour before that too playing videos by other bands related to the project.

Also, check out "Goths for Sanctuaries - The Album​!​!​!" that's been released via Bandcamp - 185 tracks for just a tenner --> Bargain! I'll post link in comment below. Hope folks can tune in and, if you've got a Twitch account, join in the chat too. :) Cheers, DJ Dust x

GothsForSanctuaries - Twitch Born during lockdown 2020 so as to bring us all together, support the bands & DJs that kept us sane & to raise funds for animal sanctuaries around the world. Two festivals, an earthquake relief event & a co-curated album later, next is a two-part fest in Oct & Nov, with exclusive compilation album.

Two pressies from Mr Garcia tonight!! A live recording from the very first Curve tour is now yours for a very princely sum... 😎

Curve - Manchester Union 1991 Bootleg Series Volume 12, by Curve 2 track album

New solo album released by Dean tonight. Very laid back, check it out... 🤩

Doom n Boom, by Dean Garcia 10 track album

Off out tonight to a full-blown gig, the first in about 18 months. In honour of the occasion, am digging out a treasured old T-shirt I've not worn in nearly 20 years...

It's bootleg time again!! 🤩

Cherry EP - Bootleg Series Vol 11, by Curve 13 track album

She just doesn't age at all... 😍

Q&A Sessions - Ep. 2: TONI HALLIDAY Following her special KPM Shorts EP 'Roll The Dice', Toni Halliday - formally of 90s rock band Curve - discusses the project in more detail in episode 2 of E...

New Toni Halliday EP on sale now...

Buy Toni Halliday: Roll The Dice by Toni Halliday on MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF & ALAC at Juno Download Download Toni Halliday: Roll The Dice by Toni Halliday at Juno Download. Listen to this and millions more tracks online. Toni Halliday: Roll The Dice

It all started exactly 30 years ago today...

Blindfold EP, by Curve 4 track album

...and this makes it *2* lots of previously-unearthed treasures released by Dean today. Good times!! :D

Curve Oddities - Bootleg Series 5, by Curve 7 track album

Raw original mixes of Horror Head, now available...

Horror Head RAW DAT Mixes Curve Bootleg Series 4, by Curve 6 track album

Check out the new remix album by the lost boy that features a remix by Dean himself. Also, check out the original un-remixed album too, it's really great!! :D

nowhere remixed, by the lost boy 14 track album

Another pressie from Dean, hot off the heels of the last one a few days ago... :)

Chinese Burn E P - Bootleg series 2, by Curve 9 track album

A pressie from Dean with more to come.....

Blindfold EP - Bootleg EP Series 1, by Curve 4 track album

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DAT BOX / prep for official bootleg series

Shirley Manson of Garbage shares her thoughts on Toni + Curve. I've never really understood the comparison between the 2 bands to be honest and now it's definitely clear that, as usual, it was the press that poisoned everything. Like always.

The divine ice queen, Toni Halliday of Curve, grabbed my attention back in 1991.I was immediately smitten. She had everything I thought I ever wanted but would never secure for myself. Four years later garbage was unleashed into the world. Many music critics pitted us against Curve, accusing us of ripping them off or stealing their sound. It is to this day, a comparison I don’t fully understand. To me there is a stronger connection, a more direct relationship between the Cocteau Twins and Curve than there is between Curve and garbage. Either way , it always felt like a massive compliment to be compared to such a great band and I was deeply thrilled. As time went on however the comparisons started to feel mean spirited and I began to feel decidedly uneasy . It felt very much like the patriarchal music press was hellbent on pitting two women in alternative rock against one another. It broke my heart when I was finally introduced to Toni backstage after one of our early London shows. I was so excited to meet her but she was rude and stand offish and made it glaringly apparent she was only in attendance to pay her respects to Butch. I was mortally offended and embarrassed and for many years I felt pretty resentful at what felt like a deliberate cold shoulder . However much water has flowed under the bridge since then. I am much smarter than I once was about a whole plethora of people and things. Now I realize it wasn’t Toni I was offended by. It was the system in place that made a sport out of setting one female artist against another just to watch them duke it out to the detriment of them both. I have nothing but admiration for Toni now and such a deep appreciation for Curve remains in my heart. The coast is clear still sounds magnificent and modern like many of their songs still do. I wish things had played out differently. I wish both Toni and I could have sat down that night we met and shot the s**t like we both deserved to. I tell young artists all the time: There is room for all extraordinary creatures. Just do you. Keep your eyes fixed on the track. Think like a racehorse. And don’t forget, the horse running at your side is your ally not your enemy.

"Toni Halliday and I wanted to make records and be as good as we could is all I know, as with everything they all have a different trajectory, It’s always very particular and personal as to what Curve means and how it affects people as it’s always very different from one person to the next, I feel we made a noise that reflected what was happening at that time, the alternative youth culture of the day, we slotted in with it all, again linked consciously and conceptually with bands like MBV JAMC and also tied in with The Prods, Chemicals and Aphex Twin, the Rave culture crossover that Primal Scream n Roses/ Mondays tapped into, Curve were part of it all, a rollercoaster of alternative thought and feels that transcend explanations, it just was and still is a collective expression of the great like-minded."

A new interview with Dean c/o WhiteLight/WhiteHeat

'Long Live the Collective Alternative Consciousness': An Interview with Curve legend DEAN GARCIA (SPC ECO, Inkraktare, S**U, etc) - WhiteLight//WhiteHeat WL//WH Interview Dean Garcia He is one of the living legends of the wider alternative music wing. Dean Garcia from the iconic 90s alternative rock/ shoegaze outfit Curve (Doppelgänger LP 1992), and the electronic dream-pop/ shoegaze band SPC ECO. The man who is also involved in a number of other e...