Added: Nov 18, 2008
From: debandross
Duration: 4:40
Alannah Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand musician and artist, best known as a former member of the British pop group Thompson Twins.Born in in Auckland, New Zealand, Currie emigrated to England in 1977, as a drop-out rock journalist. Currie squatted in various places in South West London, ending up in Lillieshall Road, Clapham Old Town. This turned out to be a major step on the road to stardom with the Thompson Twins. In 1979, with her across-the-road neighbour, Trace Newton-Ingham (Traci Newton), she co-founded the dread-punk-improvising group, The Unfuckables. The Unfuckables performed one especially memorable gig at an Anti-Psychiatry Conference in early 1980, held in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. For this particular gig the group comprised of the two co-founders, plus an array of musicians from London's 'underground' music scene - Viv Albertine (The Slits), Gareth Sager (The Pop Group), Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward (This Heat), Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins), Jimmy Cauty (later of The KLF) and improviser Steve Beresford, amongst others.Soon after this, she joined the Thompson Twins and much later still the more experimental Babble... as lyricist, percussionist and visual artist. In 1992 she returned to New Zealand working primarily as a glass artist and environmental activist. She was founder of the women's anti-GM movement MAdGE. In 2004 she designed a series of protest billboards that caused huge controversy in New Zealand but won several international art / science awards.Currie currently lives and works in London where she is a student of the little known art movement, armchair destructivists.The Thompson Twins were an English New Wave/pop band normally associated with the 1980s. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the USA and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. Total worldwide record sales are estimated at 50 million. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives in Hergé's comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alannah_Curriehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins
Channel: Music
Tags: kiwi music new nz thompson twins zealand
Rating: 4.84 (1068 ratings) Views: 566109' favoriteCount='5180 Comments: 25
modsleix6 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Agreed, my friend... Cool song...
libdash Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I think 80s were better than all damn decades so far (ya like i know all decades). Anway, in retrospect i feel like a pussy having liked this song. damn it
ribogok Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Would you mind, if I call you a redneck white trash, Pumpkin? Just to put political correctness out of the frame...
liveloveSURFyeah Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - agreed
Cedrusdeodara Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Hey Pumpkin PUffer,Wow you just found the internet? Wideban just came to your trailer park?? You are a joke. Save your hatred for the mirror.
impersonation44 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - The outfits are cool as hell to me! Swanky model, Bodymap, I collect them like stamps!
lobasodos Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - ohh great song dudes!!!!
JenOtaku Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Crawl back into the dirty hole you fell out of.
Norap21 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - pumpkin puffer you are flippin' white trash. yeeehaw! do crawl back to your cave.
kimmy90101 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Some emo band should cover this.
Microblitz Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Anyone remember "The old Grey Whistle test"? I remember their first ever performance on it. I think they played "We are detective"
blackitalian37 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - That chick reminds me this FREAK in high school
paLiszfineSt Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - you?
hitsquadsongwriting Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - If you like The Thompson Twins you might like us! We are giving away free full length albums and free ringtones of our music for a limited time! Message me if interested!
dwyer222 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - ladies and gentlemen -- the 80s in perfection
eeyorejnr69 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Absolutely correct saw them Hammersmith around 1983 top 80's band
northants1 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - such great memories of my younger years
northants1 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - seen then in concert in the 80's at the NEC.....fantastic
firewall430 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - i thought twins were the same color??? i kid, i kid!!! another 80's song i used to love!!
Aggression576 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Amen dude and where's Body Count,80's Rap Living Colour when you need them,i wish that can say RUN DMC and Fat Boys but regretfully each member passed.
PumpkinPuffer Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Wish I was so PC enlightened, just like you. I wosh I was a parrot of politically correct nonsense, just like you.
PumpkinPuffer Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Yes! Any criticism of Jews, Israel,or Jewish behavior is HATE SPEECH and should be a crime. Heaven forbid that any goyim (non jew) criticize jewish behavior.
Egorslapinski Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Seems they didn't last long as a group but they did make an excellent tune. I thought of a poem just popped into my brain .Poem Pray victicious against the dieing of the light how true are the steps of a mad man
rebrov19 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - just go to hell, stupid jews.., should not be exist at all!
msierra12 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Excellent song! And check out those outfits!...yeah, we know, some people now only see them as cheesy but at that time they were the coolest. Long live the 80's!