Feeding Fingers

Feeding Fingers is a trio fronted by artist, musician, author and animator, Justin Curfman. The band was founded in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, but has since relocated to Germany. Formation (2006) Justin Curfman, an award-winning animator/filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. He had written and produced pieces of music that never found a place in any of his films. With support from guitar/bass player, Todd Caras and percussionist, Danny Hunt, Justin Curfman formed a band to rearrange the pieces as songs and play them live.

Formation (2006)

Justin Curfman, an award-winning animator/filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia. He had written and produced pieces of music that never found a place in any of his films. With support from guitar/bass player, Todd Caras and percussionist, Danny Hunt, Justin Curfman formed a band to rearrange the pieces as songs and play them live. 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 Wall 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- to Eastern-European countries.

Since the release of Wound In Wall, Feeding Fingers has consistently performed live in America and has appeared on several radio broadcasts (including on National Public Radio)[6] 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.

Baby Teeth (2009)

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[9] 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.

Following the release of "Baby Teeth", Feeding Fingers toured the USA heavily - playing in New York and elsewhere alongside artists such as as IAMX (fronted by ex-Sneaker Pimps member, Chris Corner) and performing twice on National Public Radio.

Recent Developments

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 Nitzer Ebb.

On May 19, 2010, Anything But Water, the band's first live album, was digitally released.

On September 28, 2010, Feeding Fingers' 3rd studio album, "Detach Me From My Head" was released - a critical success.

In Winter 2011, Feeding Fingers made a brief east coast USA tour, including a show in New York with David J. - former bass player for BAUHAUS.

A fourth Feeding Fingers album is in the works, along with a possible solo release from Curfman.

Links:
http://www.feedingfingers.com

http://www.justincurfman.com

http://www.facebook.com/feedingfingers

http://www.myspace.com/thefeedingfingers