Feeding Fingers
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Feeding Fingers is a music trio founded by award-winning multimedia artist, musician, author, animator and artist, Justin Curfman
. The band was founded in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia
, but has since relocated to Germany
.
began pre-production on his first feature length film, TICKS. Curfman found nearly twenty pieces of complimentary music in his sketchbooks, cassette-tapes and hard-drives spanning nearly ten years that he considered for his film. However, Curfman later decided he wanted to start from scratch and locked away these pieces of music indefinitely. Later, he purchased a home which had a large performance/studio space spanning the entire lower level of the house. Feeling a need to use the empty space and tempted to bring back his older songs and rework into live performance pieces, Curfman decided to form a band. He submitted advertisements in music papers, internet networking sites (like MySpace
) seeking for a bass player and a drummer interested in playing in a group similar to Joy Division
, Cocteau Twins
and Echo and the Bunnymen. Todd Caras (bassist) was the first phone call Curfman received. And after a dozen more phone calls, Feeding Fingers found its drummer with Danny Hunt.
The band took their band name from one of their songs' titles, "Feeding Fingers" (which was inspired by a dream where Curfman witnessed girls standing in a single-file waiting to put their fingers into small holes drilled into white walls in a white room, where behind the walls, men would wait to eat the girls' fingers.)
in 2007 as a joint effort between Stickfigure Records
, and Justin Curfman's media company, Tephramedia. The album was well-received and drew comparisons to the earlier works of The Cure
, Joy Division
, Echo & the Bunnymen
, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Cocteau Twins
. Because of these comparisons and acceptance of post-punk
and the Gothic subculture
in the Eastern world, the band's most prominent audience was in Middle / Eastern European countries.
Since the release of Wound In Wall, Feeding Fingers has consistently performed live in the USA and Europe and has appeared on several radio broadcasts (including two live shows on National Public Radio) and in entertainment and arts magazines, weeklies, and newspapers.
A music video for "Fireflies Make Us Sick," a track off the Wound In Wall album, was completed in 2010 (3 years after the album was released and a year after their second album was released). The music video was directed by award-winning digital artist, Steven Lapcevic. The video premiered at Ultra Music Festival
in 2010.
A music video for the song, "Manufactured Missing Children" ( directed by Danish video artist, Daniel Dikov) was also released for the album.
, a more collaborative effort than being solely composed by Curfman, was released in the US in January 2009, and internationally in March 2009. This album was a joint-effort between Stickfigure Records and Tephramedia with co-operation for European distribution and promotional outlets, such as NetManagement Musik Verlag and PromoFabrik, based in Germany. This album reached #16 on the Global Gothic Chart and found a place on the Alternative Top 100 in Portugal. Baby Teeth was also ranked #4 on the Best of 2009 at Gothic Paradise. This album, unlike Wound In Wall, helped Feeding Fingers finally reach a US audience through college radio stations. Despite the acclaim, Justin Curfman mentions in a 2010 interview that Baby Teeth was "very dense and bleak and just filled with confusion," and plainly refuses to ever repeat anything like it again.
During this time Feeding Fingers began touring the USA very heavily, including dates in New York and playing with internationally-established acts, such as IAMX (led by Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps) and others.
In March 2010, Feeding Fingers embarked on their first European tour (playing in The Netherlands, Romania, Poland and Italy, where they shared the bill with electro-punk icons, Nitzer Ebb
.)
Curfman relocated to Germany shortly afterward in 2010.
Anything But Water
, the band's first live album, was digitally released on May 19, 2010. The band's third album, titled, Detach Me From My Head
was released exclusively through Curfman's own media label, Tephramedia, on September 28, 2010. This critically acclaimed album was co-produced by Coyote J
and David I. Nunez.
In Winter 2011, Curfman resurfaced in the USA to lead Feeding Fingers on a short East Coast tour to support the release of Detach Me From My Head
with a new bass player in toll; Bradley Claborn. The trio played a short burst of successful shows, including, most notably, a show in New York City, supporting David J
, former bassist for Bauhaus
and Love & Rockets.
A fourth studio-album (a possible double-album) is currently in production with Coyote J returning as producer.
It is also rumored that Curfman is working on a solo album.
Live Albums
Justin Curfman
Justin Curfman is an award-winning animator/filmmaker, musician, author and artist who is, perhaps, best known for being the frontman for the band, Feeding Fingers. Curfman was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia...
. The band was founded in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, but has since relocated to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Formation (2005-06)
Feeding Fingers' history begins in Atlanta, Georgia in 2005. Justin CurfmanJustin Curfman
Justin Curfman is an award-winning animator/filmmaker, musician, author and artist who is, perhaps, best known for being the frontman for the band, Feeding Fingers. Curfman was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia...
began pre-production on his first feature length film, TICKS. Curfman found nearly twenty pieces of complimentary music in his sketchbooks, cassette-tapes and hard-drives spanning nearly ten years that he considered for his film. However, Curfman later decided he wanted to start from scratch and locked away these pieces of music indefinitely. Later, he purchased a home which had a large performance/studio space spanning the entire lower level of the house. Feeling a need to use the empty space and tempted to bring back his older songs and rework into live performance pieces, Curfman decided to form a band. He submitted advertisements in music papers, internet networking sites (like MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
) seeking for a bass player and a drummer interested in playing in a group similar to Joy Division
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
, Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...
and Echo and the Bunnymen. Todd Caras (bassist) was the first phone call Curfman received. And after a dozen more phone calls, Feeding Fingers found its drummer with Danny Hunt.
The band took their band name from one of their songs' titles, "Feeding Fingers" (which was inspired by a dream where Curfman witnessed girls standing in a single-file waiting to put their fingers into small holes drilled into white walls in a white room, where behind the walls, men would wait to eat the girls' fingers.)
Wound In Wall (2007)
The group released their first full-length album Wound in WallWound in Wall
Wound In Wall is the debut album of the dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers, released . Wound In Wall was the result of the purging of a large back-catalog of music that was written by Justin Curfman from aged 16 onward from 1996 to 2005 that never found a home in any of his film projects...
in 2007 as a joint effort between Stickfigure Records
Stickfigure Records
Stickfigure Records is an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia.It was created in the winter of 1992 to cater to the underground scene of independent music. Its roots were in the new sub-culture rising in the 90s. Many of musical genres, such as hardcore punk, math rock, and emo, were...
, and Justin Curfman's media company, Tephramedia. The album was well-received and drew comparisons to the earlier works of The Cure
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
, Joy Division
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
, Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk band, formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut...
, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...
. Because of these comparisons and acceptance of post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
and the Gothic subculture
Goth subculture
The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify...
in the Eastern world, the band's most prominent audience was in Middle / Eastern European countries.
Since the release of Wound In Wall, Feeding Fingers has consistently performed live in the USA and Europe and has appeared on several radio broadcasts (including two live shows on National Public Radio) and in entertainment and arts magazines, weeklies, and newspapers.
A music video for "Fireflies Make Us Sick," a track off the Wound In Wall album, was completed in 2010 (3 years after the album was released and a year after their second album was released). The music video was directed by award-winning digital artist, Steven Lapcevic. The video premiered at Ultra Music Festival
Ultra Music Festival
Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that occurs in March in the city of Miami usually during the annual Winter Music Conference. It is held in Downtown Miami in Bicentennial Park. It was a 1-day festival from 1999-2006, a 2-day festival from 2007-2010, and was a...
in 2010.
A music video for the song, "Manufactured Missing Children" ( directed by Danish video artist, Daniel Dikov) was also released for the album.
Baby Teeth (2009)
Their second album, Baby TeethBaby Teeth (Feeding Fingers album)
Baby Teeth is the second album from the dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers, released on . Because Wound In Wall was mostly composed by lead singer, Justin Curfman, in his mid-teens, he decided that Baby Teeth needed to be shorter, tighter, and more a Feeding Fingers album rather than a...
, a more collaborative effort than being solely composed by Curfman, was released in the US in January 2009, and internationally in March 2009. This album was a joint-effort between Stickfigure Records and Tephramedia with co-operation for European distribution and promotional outlets, such as NetManagement Musik Verlag and PromoFabrik, based in Germany. This album reached #16 on the Global Gothic Chart and found a place on the Alternative Top 100 in Portugal. Baby Teeth was also ranked #4 on the Best of 2009 at Gothic Paradise. This album, unlike Wound In Wall, helped Feeding Fingers finally reach a US audience through college radio stations. Despite the acclaim, Justin Curfman mentions in a 2010 interview that Baby Teeth was "very dense and bleak and just filled with confusion," and plainly refuses to ever repeat anything like it again.
During this time Feeding Fingers began touring the USA very heavily, including dates in New York and playing with internationally-established acts, such as IAMX (led by Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps) and others.
Detach Me From My Head (2010)
In later half of 2009, Curfman announced the production of the band's third album nearing completion. The title track of the album, "Detach Me From My Head" and the song, "I Am A Brutal Little Boy" appeared online and as well in the band's live playlist in Europe (debuting in Bucharest, Romania).In March 2010, Feeding Fingers embarked on their first European tour (playing in The Netherlands, Romania, Poland and Italy, where they shared the bill with electro-punk icons, Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb is a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris , Douglas McCarthy , and David Gooday .-Band name:...
.)
Curfman relocated to Germany shortly afterward in 2010.
Anything But Water
Anything But Water
Anything But Water is Feeding Fingers' first live album. It was first announced during an interview with Justin Curfman on April 7, 2010. Curfman revealed that the live album was created simply because there was a huge back-catalog of live recordings from the previous 3 years just waiting for...
, the band's first live album, was digitally released on May 19, 2010. The band's third album, titled, Detach Me From My Head
Detach Me From My Head
Detach Me From My Head is the third studio album from dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers. It was released on . This is the band's first album since their move to Germany. On June 2, 2010, Feeding Fingers officially released the cover art, tracklisting and a sampler of the album...
was released exclusively through Curfman's own media label, Tephramedia, on September 28, 2010. This critically acclaimed album was co-produced by Coyote J
Coyote J
Coyote J is a radio disc-jockey known for his screamo, wild-child 7-12 midnight show in the 1970s at WERC, a Birmingham TOP 40, and later at CHR Z-102 in the 1980s. For 30 years he has been a popular personality in Birmingham, while making stops in Nashville , San Diego , Denver , New Orleans ,...
and David I. Nunez.
In Winter 2011, Curfman resurfaced in the USA to lead Feeding Fingers on a short East Coast tour to support the release of Detach Me From My Head
Detach Me From My Head
Detach Me From My Head is the third studio album from dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers. It was released on . This is the band's first album since their move to Germany. On June 2, 2010, Feeding Fingers officially released the cover art, tracklisting and a sampler of the album...
with a new bass player in toll; Bradley Claborn. The trio played a short burst of successful shows, including, most notably, a show in New York City, supporting David J
David J
David John Haskins , better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets....
, former bassist for Bauhaus
Bauhaus (band)
Bauhaus was an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy , Daniel Ash , Kevin Haskins and David J . The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation...
and Love & Rockets.
A fourth studio-album (a possible double-album) is currently in production with Coyote J returning as producer.
It is also rumored that Curfman is working on a solo album.
Discography
Studio Albums- Wound in WallWound in WallWound In Wall is the debut album of the dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers, released . Wound In Wall was the result of the purging of a large back-catalog of music that was written by Justin Curfman from aged 16 onward from 1996 to 2005 that never found a home in any of his film projects...
(2007) - Baby TeethBaby Teeth (Feeding Fingers album)Baby Teeth is the second album from the dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers, released on . Because Wound In Wall was mostly composed by lead singer, Justin Curfman, in his mid-teens, he decided that Baby Teeth needed to be shorter, tighter, and more a Feeding Fingers album rather than a...
(2009) - Detach Me From My HeadDetach Me From My HeadDetach Me From My Head is the third studio album from dark wave/post-punk band Feeding Fingers. It was released on . This is the band's first album since their move to Germany. On June 2, 2010, Feeding Fingers officially released the cover art, tracklisting and a sampler of the album...
(2010)
Live Albums
- Anything But WaterAnything But WaterAnything But Water is Feeding Fingers' first live album. It was first announced during an interview with Justin Curfman on April 7, 2010. Curfman revealed that the live album was created simply because there was a huge back-catalog of live recordings from the previous 3 years just waiting for...
(2010)
External links
- Feeding Fingers, official website
- Feeding Fingers, on Facebook
- Feeding Fingers, on MySpace
- Justin Curfman,
- Stickfigure Records