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1999 Founded in summer
2000 Started as a Cure Cover Band
2001 Writing own songs, Support The mission in Bochum
2002 Ep Falling
2004 Album The intimate stranger (Genetic music/af music
2005-2009 A lot of gigs like support Mark Burgess, Chris Reed and promo
2009 Album Arrythmia (Sonorium/afmusic)
About
Curious were founded in summer 99 by Olli (vocals), Suzie (drums) and Moci (bass guitar). Together with some competent comrade-in-arms Curious first of all gained experience by covering several songs of the indie heroes The Cure, OMD and The Chameleons. The highlight and also the end of those cover time was playing as support act for gothrock legend The Mission at Zeche Bochum, Germany in November 2000.
In the following year and being joined by Marie (keyboards) and Patrick (guitars) Curious totally concentrated on songwriting. So, after several gigs (amongst others with Escape with Romeo and at the Secret Garden Festival in Hannover in 2002, the band produced their 4 track demo EP 'Falling'. 'Falling'' can so be seen as first result of that Curious typical sound.
In 2003 Curious continued celebrating their live presences which offered the possibility to present themselves to bigger audiences. Ecspecially the gigs together with Mark Burgess (Ex Chameleons) and the gig at 'Bielefeld rockt' (a huge festival with the best bielefelder bands in all music styles) were outstanding. Moreover Marco (guitars) finally completed the band line up, Patrick left the band . This time had been invited for quite a lot of radio interviews.
So it happened that the record indie label Genetic Music showed great interest in a cooperation with Curious and in winter 2003 the recordings for the first full time album started and were finished in early summer 2004. In July 2004 then 'The intimate Stranger' was published, the album can e.g. be obtained via Amazon, Infrarot, Indietective, Strobelight, Martz, Modern Entertainment etc.'The Intimate Stranger' contains 9 great catchy songs which should most likely be compared to that classic eighties guitar wave sound with its melancholic and groovy atmosphere.
In October 2004 the Cure Tribute Sampler 'Other voices' has been published by Equinoxe Records, while Curious contribution to that was their cover version of 'Siamese Twins' (Pornography).
Their first contact with the TV Curious had at November23, 2004: The TV Station 'WDR' broadcasted a clip about Curious in order to advertise forthcoming gigs of them.
In 2005 loads of Promotion dates and gigs of course - followed and not to forget several sampler contributions concerning the actual album. Without doubt another highlight had been Curious support for the Dutch cult band The Essence in October 2004 (Hagen).
And regarding present and future: at the moment the latest new Curious song 'Thrill B' is quite causing sensations. Curious' second longplayer is now about to be released on 14th November2008 on the Sonorium label. To get a taste of the new album, the net-single "Days" will be already available starting October 28thon (Sonorium / afmusic).
2008/2009 : New album Arrhythmia out in November ! A lot of promo to do...
2009: TV Concert Kanal 21, Bielefeld, watch Video Rovers here !
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