The perfect Fixx
The Fixx performs on July 19 at Brixton on the Redondo Beach Pier When the Twin Towers were hit on that tranquil September morning in 2001, The Fixx’s frontman, Cy Curnin felt it was time to leave the States. “After 9/11 I started to get bored of the way that big cities were just full of fear,” Curnin explains. “I started wondering what would happen if the supermarkets were to shut down. Mine and everyone’s way of thinking was becoming fear-based.” Upon Curnin’s American departure, he and his girlfriend moved to a remote farm nestled in the countryside of France, where they began raising pigs and tending to their extensive vegetable patch. “Living in a big city, you become so apathetic thanks to things like easy credit,” says the socially aware Curnin. “I realized once I moved to the countryside that my writing had started to have a different rhythm. There was a specific element of self-awareness that I was ignoring while living in the city.” The Fixx’s new album, Beautiful Friction, now available everywhere, captures the transformative process that Curnin experienced after his move from the US. Beautiful Friction reflects the underlying impacts that specific social and recent…
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