Added: Jul 30, 2007
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_Currie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins
Channel: Music
Tags: kiwi music new nz thompson twins zealand
Rating: 4.84 (1116 ratings) Views: 605881' favoriteCount='5503 Comments: 25
JaredEricFusia Says:
Nov 22, 2008 - why don't they make music like this anymore?
perfectlyfookedup Says:
Nov 23, 2008 - wow memories this is all my dad listened to when i was a kid ;-)
OTIE1121 Says:
Nov 23, 2008 - Ultimate classic!
taiyogenki Says:
Nov 24, 2008 - WOW
thenotoriousana Says:
Nov 24, 2008 - I like listening to this song while painting my nails.
angelowpg75 Says:
Nov 25, 2008 - Truely a classic from the eighties..
AmITheSameGirl Says:
Nov 25, 2008 - I love 80's music because it makes me think of my kids childhood! I wish they were little again, but they are all grown up now and I'm a grandma. But I still love the 80's music!
delfeanwinchester07 Says:
Nov 25, 2008 - such a classic song!absolutely loved the thompson twins when i was a kid :)
LanceMoris Says:
Nov 25, 2008 - black people.
shardess Says:
Nov 27, 2008 - Hold Me Now was the song I woke up to a few daze ago. I've listened to it more lately than I did in '84 when it first came out. I was in art college then-what a great creatively inspiring time. I think it is that kind of time again-25 years later.
8616420 Says:
Nov 27, 2008 - what this era produce is more of meaning of life,love and simplicity of the whole now that things go fast and meaning has it own value. PEACE
bennyboyroberts Says:
Nov 27, 2008 - Life before drugs and guns... I love this!!!!
Sparta23232323 Says:
Nov 28, 2008 - I love this video. Im only 12, I dont know much about the 80ies era. lol. Oh well. I like this song. Its calming after a big day of school. :)
amerenio Says:
Nov 28, 2008 - the good old days. how things have changed.
CelesteK Says:
Nov 28, 2008 - This was one of the most important songs that they ever wrote. :)
Marakandeia Says:
Nov 29, 2008 - Is there Jon Anderson Singing at 3:16?
onlythepianoplayer Says:
Nov 29, 2008 - Classic 80's....One of old MTV Favs
DannyBling Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Son, you better hope your balls drop soon, because you're sounding like a bitch.
rentacop31 Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Back when the guys that looked the most like fags got the hot chicks.
samanthatomo Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - bringgggggggggg back the 80,s omg they were soooooooooooo gud.........
heyitsboo Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - just yesterday?
heyitsboo Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - pete burns is a total faggot
myunclesnephew Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - lol
myunclesnephew Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - were you born in a ditch or something? why the hell can't the kid (if it's not a fake identity) listen to some Thompson Twins to unwind after a hard day of math and science?
jenkins3011 Says:
Nov 22, 2008 - This song is great! Amazing it came out 25 years ago, feels like yesterday.