Yahoo Search Búsqueda en la Web

Resultado de búsqueda

  1. Alannah Joy Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand artist based in London. She is a musician and activist, best known as a former member of the pop band Thompson Twins. Career. Born in New Zealand and trained as a journalist, Currie emigrated to the UK in 1977. Currie squatted in South London.

    • Thompson Twins
    • Anti GM Movement
    • Armchair Destructivists and Sisters of Perpetual Resistance

    In 1981 Alannah joined with squat neighbours Tom Bailey and Joe Leeway and together they became the internationally successful pop band the Thompson Twins. She co-wrote the songs, performed, recorded, styled and visually directed the band for 15 years – working with many pop giants including Debbie Harry, Nile Rodgers, Grace Jones, Alex Sadkin and ...

    In 2001 Currie founded and ran the notorious anti-Genetic Modification movement in NZ called MAdGE working alongside Greenpeace to organise protests, marches and mobilising women in supermarket boycotts. In order to provoke an ethical debate on the use of human genes in milk-producing cows she designed a highly controversial billboard campaign titl...

    In 2004 Currie moved back to London and spent 2 years at London Metropolitan University learning traditional furniture production. She took the name Miss Pokeno and began the slow process of myth-making, building taxidermy into chairs to tell the stories of her imagined ancestors, leading to her first solo show England Bloody England at the Ragged ...

  2. TOM BAILEY was the front man and songwriter for The Thompson Twins. Alongside his wife Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, the trio ruled the world’s airwaves in the ’80s, and they played Live Aid ...

  3. From pop to indie and new wave to electronic music – it's all here... In this archive interview from 2017, Thompson Twins’ Alannah Currie remembers the band's early days... By Jenny Valentish.

    • Alannah Currie1
    • Alannah Currie2
    • Alannah Currie3
    • Alannah Currie4
  4. Future Thompson Twins member Alannah Currie (born 20 September 1957, Auckland, New Zealand) lived in another squat in the same street, which is how she met Bailey. [citation needed] . Their roadie at that time was John Hade, who lived in the same house, and who later became their manager. [citation needed]

  5. Alannah Currie, one third of the synth-heavy pop group Thompson Twins, was a fixture on Top of the Pops, which showcased hits such as "Hold Me Now" and "Love On Your Side". But...

  6. Alannah Currie was born on 20 September 1958 in Auckland, New Zealand. She is an actress and composer, known for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Sixteen Candles (1984). She was previously married to Tom Bailey.