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: "Act of Faith" redirects here. If you were looking for the Katey Segal song, see Well...|here . Infobox musical artist|name = Presence |image = Presence promo.jpg |caption = Gary Biddles, Rob Steen, Chris Youdell, Roberto Soave, Alan Burgess, Lol Tolhurst |background = group_or_band |origin = England |Instruments = |genre = Gothic rock Punk rock Heavy metal music|Heavy metal New Wave music|New Wave Alternative metal Pop punk |years_active = 1990 - 1993 |associated_acts = The Cure Associates (band)|Associates Fools Dance Shelleyan Orphan Then Jerico Babacar (band)|Babacar Levinhurst |Label(s) = Smash Records, Island Records |website = http://www.presenceuk.net/ www.presenceuk.net|past_members = Gary Biddles Michael Dempsey Lol Tolhurst Chris Youdell Alan Burgess Roberto Soave Rob Steen Presence was a short-lived United Kingdom|British New Wave music|New Wave musical ensemble|band started by Gary Biddles, Lol Tolhurst , and Michael Dempsey . Dempsey and Tolhurst were founding members of The Cure , and Biddles was a former Cure roadie who previously played in Fools Dance with Simon Gallup . In their brief existence, Presence released only one album , called Inside (Presence album)|Inside through Smash Records, a subsidiary of Island Records .
History
In 1990, Dempsey, Tolhurst and Biddles were sound recording and reproduction|recording demo (music)|demo s together with a view to forming a new band following Tolhurst's departure from The Cure. http://www.thecure.com/archive/curenewspages/cn9link.html "Interview with Robert Smith" 5 August 2007 With the addition of keyboardist Chris Youdell (of Then Jerico ) and drummer Alan Burgess the band emerged in 1991 as Presence with the single (music)|singles , "In Wonder" and "All I See". Dempsey received songwriter|co-writing credit for "Amazed"; the A-side and B-side|b-side of "All I See", http://www.discogs.com/release/581761 "All I See" 29 August 2007 but took a background role as a session musician|session bassist , and did not appear in the band's photos or press releases. Porl Thompson also made guest appearances on guitar for some of these recordings, but by 1992 both Dempsey and Thompson were officially replaced by bassist Roberto Soave (formerly of Associates (new wave duo)|The Associates and Shelleyan Orphan ) and guitarist Rob Steen respectively. However, Dempsey received co-writing credits for two tracks on Inside .Allmusic|class=album|id=r169382|pure_url=yes "Review of Inside" 5 August 2007 Although Inside was well received by music journalism|critics , the album was a commercial failure, and led to the dissolution of the band.
When Presence were formed, there was another band with the same name. Because of Tolhurst's fame, the other band had to change their name to Puressence . Another outfit named Presence placed two singles ("Sense of Danger" and "Future Love") in the UK Singles Chart in 1998 and 1999.cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 434
Since the breakup of Presence, Roberto Soave and Rob Steen have played in another band called Babacar (band)|Babacar along with Boris Williams of The Cure and Caroline Crawley of Shelleyan Orphan. http://www.absoluteagogo.com/babacar.html "Babacar" 1 August 2007Soave has also played a brief stint with The Cure. When Simon Gallup fell ill during the European leg of the Wish (The Cure album)|Wish concert tour|tour , Soave filled in for him on bass. http://www.foreverdrowning.net/setlist.php? date=882 "Cure Archive" 1 August 2007
Tolhurst confirmed in an interview several years later that Presence had recorded a second album, which was record producer|produced by former The Smiths|Smiths producer John Porter (musician)|John Porter . http://www.levinhurst.com/cgi/Blah/Blah.pl? b=cc,m=1122314484 Levinhurst.com He said it is unlikely this second album will ever be released, and that he felt the band "was really too much too soon I felt for me". http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/graveconcerns/interview_levinhurst.html "Interview with Lol" 1 August 2007 But he also said in another interview that he does not discount his experience with Presence either, http://www.chaindlk.com/interviews/index.php? interview=Levinhurst "Levinhurst" 1 August 2007 and according to another interviewer, this band does spark interest among some Cure fan (person)|fans . http://www.hispacure.com/b/prensa/archivo/reportajes/hispacure/HispaCure_interview_to_Lol_Tolhurst_April2007.pdf "Interview to Lol Tolhurst" 1 August 2007 Tolhurst is focusing on his current project Levinhurst , a portmanteau of Tolhurst and his wife's (vocalist Cindy Levinson ) surname s.
In 2007, Biddles started a MySpace page for Presence.
Presence first album "Inside" was re-released in December 2011.
