| Feeding Fingers | |
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| Origin | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Genres | Post-punk, Indie rock |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Tephramedia, formerly Stickfigure Records |
| Associated acts | Justin Curfman Entertainme.nt Simon Heartfield |
| Website | [1] |
| Members | |
| Justin Curfman Bradley Claborn Danny Hunt |
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| Past members | |
| Kris Anderson (2009-2010) Todd Caras (2006-2009) |
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Feeding Fingers is a music trio[1] 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.
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Feeding Fingers' history begins in Atlanta, Georgia in 2005. Justin Curfman 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.[2]
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.)[3]
The group released their first full-length album Wound in Wall in 2007 as a joint effort between Stickfigure Records, and Justin Curfman's media company, Tephramedia. The album was well-received[4][5][6][7] 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)[8] 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.[9] The video premiered at Ultra Music Festival in 2010.[10]
A music video for the song, "Manufactured Missing Children" ( directed by Danish video artist, Daniel Dikov) was also released for the album.
Their second album, Baby Teeth, 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[11] 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.[12] This album, unlike Wound In Wall, helped Feeding Fingers finally reach a US audience through college radio stations.[13] 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.[14]
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 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.)[15]
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.[16]
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.[17]
It is also rumored that Curfman is working on a solo album.
Studio Albums
Live Albums