MiSTRESS OF THE HOUSE
FORMER CURVE FRONTWOMAN TONi HALLiDAY
TALKS TO ROCKWiRED
ABOUT HER SOLO PROJECT 'CHATELAiNE'
AND MAKiNG A FATTER, WiDER, MORE ORGANiC SOUND

iNTERViEWED BY BRiAN LUSH
I can't quite explain my fascination with women who could eat me for breakfast. Back in the early nineties, TONI HALLIDAY was such a woman. As the pretty half of the English rock band CURVE, she and bassist DEAN GARCIA either wittingly or unwittingly broke ground with a sound marked by distorted guitars and sampled beats with HALLIDAY's ethereal voice floating over such venomous numbers as 'FAIT ACCOMPLI', 'CLIPPED', and 'THE COAST IS CLEAR'. Nowhere did the duo's songwriting chops and production smarts shine through more than on the bands 1992 debut album 'DOPPELGANGER'. CURVE was my only reason for staying up for MTV's '120 MINUTES' and I was convinced that this thing that everyone was dubbing 'alternative music' was going to move on from the grunge that had already started to outlast it's welcome. Well, the mid-nineties came around and the sound of distorted guitars and sampled beats with a pretty angel voice on top finally came to define the alternative sound, however it was through the band GARBAGE. Oh well! By the time, SHIRLEY MANSON and the boys had arrived, one couldn't exactly rely on consistency from the HALLIDAY/GARCIA team. A record here and a record there was released until HALLIDAY in 2005 announced on CURVE's official website that she was done.(READ MORE)

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