“Fait Accompli” by Curve

"Fait Accompli" was the first single Curve pulled from Doppelgänger, out on Anxious on 24 February 1992, and its climb to 22 was the highest any Curve single reached in Britain. It made the Top 40 with no seven-inch in the racks, only 12-inch, CD and cassette, one of the first UK singles to manage that, and Melody Maker crowned it Single of the Week. Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday wrote it, and Flood produced and engineered, a fitting hand for something this dark and swooning.

The video parks Halliday and Garcia on a smoke-choked soundstage with the band's touring players while a small crowd, a flamenco dancer and a sheep among them, looks on, shot mostly in black and white with a few flashes of color. A longer mix later resurfaced on Pubic Fruit, a compilation issued only in the US.

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