MCD Present Surf Curse

Surf Curse is the indie rock recording project of Los Angeles based songwriters Nick Rattigan and

Jacob Rubeck. The pair met as teenagers while growing up outside of Las Vegas, and immediately

bonded over underground music, cult films, and a desire to leave their vacuous home town. After

moving to Reno for college, Rattigan and Rubeck discovered the city’s local DIY scene and similar

blossoming music communities across the country that were becoming connected through the

internet. In the fall of 2010 the two formalized their on-going musical collaboration with a new two

piece called Surf Curse and played their first show at a Halloween Party. Surf Curse’s initial songs

were frantic punk anthems about adolescent heartbreak and alienation, and the band quickly

developed an audience of young people who resonated with Rattigan and Rubeck’s anecdotal writing.

Early on Surf Curse frequently performed at landmark all ages venues like The Holland Project, The

Smell, and Pehrspace. On one of their first trips to Los Angeles, Rattigan and Rubeck befriended a

community of musicians including the likes of Palm Reader, Girlpool, Michael Vidal, and Heller Keller,

and recorded their first two releases with Andrew McKelvie at The Smell. Surf Curse developed a cult

following almost over night in Los Angeles, but abruptly disappeared for a two year hiatus after

Rattigan relocated to New York City.

While living on separate sides of the country, Rattigan and Rubeck devoted most of their attention to

their respective solo projects, Current Joys (FKA Tele/Visions) and Casino Hearts. Surf Curse

reunited in 2015 and began demoing their second full length, Nothing Yet, which they released with

Danger Collective Records in 2017. Over the past five years, seeing Surf Curse live has become a

right of passage for disaffected youth in the South-West while Rattigan and Rubeck have spent their

formative years between Las Vegas, Reno, and Los Angeles.

Their new record, Heaven Surrounds You, is a coming of age epic, inspired by the many cult films

they’ve cherished throughout their young adulthood that are referenced across the album’s track-list.

Rattigan and Rubeck worked with veteran indie producer Jarvis Taveniere, carefully crafting a their

most lush and vulnerable record to date.

Surff Curse will play The Grand Social for Friday 22 nd November with tickets from €10 on sale Thursday

15 th August at 9am

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