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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.
THOMPSON Twins star Alannah Currie has turned her back on fame after reaching the top of the charts in the 80s and even having a performance slot in Live Aid.
Alannah Currie is a London based artist who makes work using luxurious veneers around uncomfortable and provocative narratives. She works under the name Miss Pokeno. Born in 1957 in New Zealand, Currie trained as a radio journalist and came to London in 1977 attracted to the idea of a punk revolution. She was part of the South London squat ...
Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie, who were by now a couple, decided to continue as a duo and went straight into the studio to record album number seven, “Close To The Bone”, released in 1987. The best days were now over as “Close To The Bone” and its three singles, failed to reach the audience that had embraced them only two years earlier.
The Thompson Twins are Tom Bailey from the north of England; native New Zealander Alannah Currie; and Joe Leeway, who is half Irish/half Nigerian. So they aren’t real twins. They took their name from a Belgian comic strip called The Adventures of Tin-Tin.
As Thompson Twins co-founder Tom Bailey prepares for this upcoming ‘Into The Gap’ Australian tour, he has given Noise11 an update on what the other central members Joe Leeway and Alannah Currie...
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. Their roadie at that time was John Hade, who lived in the same house, and who later became their manager.
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.
Profile. Discography. Alannah Currie. 8 Sep 2021. I arrived in London in 1977, lured by the vague promise of revolution. The combination of punk attitude and a new feminist ideology was overwhelmingly seductive.
Alannah Currie in Classic Pop - Jenny Valentish. I was very happy to be able to write this Classic Pop profile of Alannah Currie: artist, activist, ex-pop star. Her childhood in New Zealand with an illegal bookie father sounds like a scene from The Grifters.