So The Curious Incident….Who are you?

We are The Curious Incident… without the dog, without the night time

How long have you guys known each other…..and how did it all begin?

The band formed in late 2009 when Kyle convinced Adrian to do this Curious thing properly. Then we got Josh. We like Josh. We had a drummer – great drummer. Less than great band member. Dead now. With a spoon. Hope it didn’t hurt too much.

Musical influences?

Portugal. The Man, Muse, Wolfmother, Queens of the Stone Age,  Cold War Kids, Bootsy Collins, James Brown, Taxi Violence, Incubus, The Raconteurs, Arctic Monkeys

And each other .

Describe your sound…?

We’re trying to mash together stoner rock n roll with dark funk while keeping enough soul and melody in there. Hope you like mash.

The new Fatal Attraction album launch coming up – what can we expect to see and hear?

You can expect to hear the 5 tracks that feature on our debut EP – Fatal Descriptive Attraction. We also have a few extra tracks that have never been heard by or played for an audience before that we will be including on our full length album later this year. You can expect to see people on a stage who would not be anywhere else other than right there making music. You can also expect to see brilliant local talent supporting us at our launch shows. Acts playing include Holiday Murray, The Plastics, New Holland, Captain Stu, The Bone Collectors, Markus Wormstorm, Jet Black & The Multicolors and Tommy Gun!

Sick tracks on the album?

We all love playing Alpaco and use it as a little warm up together before we go on stage. It is a close shave but Emphasis on Paralysis is probably the overall favourite. Don’t Catch Me Out is great fun to play as well.

Titles of songs – do they come first, or the lyrics? Also relate that to the melody and the lyrics – or does it evolve naturally?

It varies. For example, Adrian came up with the name “Alpaco Stole My Lunchbox” and Kyle then decided to write lyrics based around that idea (which is about tyranny and freedom of speech etc.) Other times Kyle will come up with an idea or a few lines of a song and work around that. We strongly believe that songwriting equates to storytelling and we aim for the lyrics to hold such a story.

Album name – A Fatal Attraction – anything behind it?

The lyrics to the title track of the album, Fatal Descriptive Attraction, recount the debaucherous nature of people and relate it to classic nursery rhyme characters. “Old Mother Hubbard got some skeletons in her cupboard – where did her husband go?” They lyrics are light-heartedly twisting up the tales we know so well and making them contemporary with today’s woes

What’s next for The Curious Incident?

We’ll be having a large and stirring April with the 4 launch shows in Western Cape. We’ll also be shooting our debut music video for Emphasis on Paralysis. The website www.thecuriousincident.net should be up and running soon and whoever is not able to get a physical copy of Fatal Descriptive Attraction from Musica or the shows will be able to download it directly from the site. Then we’ll be touring the EP nationally with perhaps a second music video and then we’ll be getting down to working on our full length album due out at the end of 2010!

So stay with these guys, guys!  Be a fan on facebook and follow their tweets on twitter. Because we’re here to help them to make Fatal Attraction an incident that must be turned up full volume.





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