CURVE are back with a new single next month after splitting almost three years ago.

Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia release 'Pink Girl With The Blues' on September 2 and will follow it up with a new album, tentatively entitled 'Magic Music Medicine', early next year. Both will be released on Fat Lip Records, lead singer Halliday's own label.

She explained that Curve had decided to call it a day in January 1994 because they were "disgusted" with the music industry.

Halliday continued: "We weren't happy with the way everything was going. It had stopped being fun and we couldn't do what we wanted any more. We just wanted to jump off that treadmill."

In their time apart, Toni collaborated with Leftfield and set up another band, Scylla, while Dean wrote movie scores. When Toni inadvertently picked up a microphone on a visit to Dean's house one day they decided it would be a good idea to start over again, but on their own terms.

There has been renewed interest in Curve after bands like Garbage cited them as an influence, and according to Toni Halliday, she and Dean felt that they had "unfinished business".

The reformed Curve have no immediate plans to tour, but they are involved with CD-Rom and Internet projects and are contributing a track to US avant garde film-maker Gregor 'The Doom Generation' Raki's new film Nowhere.

Toni added: "It's early days yet and we don't know what's going to happen. We'll just have to suck it and see!"

(article nicked from 'New Musical Express', 17 August 1996)