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Presence

Presence was a short-lived British New Wave 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 through Smash Records, a subsidiary of Island Records. more »