Roland, Record Collector (29.11.2014):
“But really, I never stopped writing for him. It would have been very easy to get Curt in on Elemental and sing those songs. They were built for him. I hadn’t stopped writing for a voice.”
Electronic Sound (14.12.2017):
So, does Curt consider them both ['Elemental' & 'RATKOS'] Tears For Fears albums after all?
“No,” he gamely semi-sulks in a mid-Atlantic accent formed from living 30 years the wrong side of Corrachadh Mòr. “Because I wasn’t there. But I like ‘Break It Down Again’, so it’s fine.”
“He plays on it now when we do it live,” smiles Roland, “he even sings on it. When people come and see us, they don’t think, ‘That’s the song without Curt’. It’s a Tears For Fears song. They see us both performing it and no one bats an eyelid. And he would have sung other songs on those albums if he’d been there, like ‘Goodnight Song’.”
'Naked Lunch’ podcast (09.05.2024):
H: There’s one I really liked called 'Break It Down Again’.
CS: Which we play!
Int.: I think you guys still do it.
CS: And I, and I like that song too.
H: But when I listened to it, because it’s the only song without you I listened to when I was getting ready to come over here, I was thinking like, 'I like it because he recreated you’.
CS: Me singing that one bit.
H: Exactly! I said, 'Oh my God! There’s that bit!’
CS: Which live I sing!
H: Yes, but it wasn’t you.
CS: No.
H: And that must have been, I don’t know if that’s a little annoying…
H2: They got a sound alike?
H: Well…
CS: No, he just impersonates my voice effectively, you know.
bonus: list of songs from 'Elemental’, 'RATKOS’ and Curt’s solo albums that were performed during TFF’s tours after Roland and Curt reunited
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