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  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.

  2. 21 set 2023 · 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. The former musician, aged 66, was...

  3. 16 apr 2022 · 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 ...

    • 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 ...

  4. Alongside his wife Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway, the trio ruled the world’s airwaves in the ’80s, and they played Live Aid with Madonna, before splitting. Tom is supporting Culture Club at...

  5. 29 mar 2023 · Alannah Currie interview: “For a couple of years the three of us had a real laugh”. By Classic Pop | March 29, 2023. Alannah Currie in LA. In this archive interview from 2017, Thompson Twins’ Alannah Currie remembers the band’s early days…. By Jenny Valentish.

  6. 27 set 2023 · It was then that Alannah Currie gave up music and changed tack completely, pursuing a new career as an artist and furniture restorer. The New Zealand-born, London-based former musician now runs her own art studio under the moniker Miss Pokeno.