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| Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now |
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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
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From a BBC Late Show Feat. Roots Based Artists.
I was nineteen when I came to town, they called it
the Summer of Love
They were burning babies, burning flags. The hawks
against the doves
I took a job in the steamie down on Cauldrum
Street
And I fell in love with a laundry girl who was
working next to me
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love,
I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
Brown hair zig-zag around her face and a look of
half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights, there was
animal in her eyes
She said "Young man, oh can't you see I'm not the
factory kind
If you don't take me out of here I'll surely lose
my mind"
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine that I might crush her where she lay
She was a lost child, she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love,
I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
We busked around the market towns and picked fruit
down in Kent
And we could tinker lamps and pots and knives
wherever we went
And I said that we might settle down, get a few
acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug
She said "Oh man, you foolish man, it surely
sounds like hell.
You might be lord of half the world, you'll not
own me as well"
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love,
I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
We was camping down the Gower one time, the work
was pretty good
She thought we shouldn't wait for the frost and I
thought maybe we should
We was drinking more in those days and tempers
reached a pitch
And like a fool I let her run with the rambling
itch
Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough back on
the Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket and a wolfhound at
her feet
And they say she even married once, a man named
Romany Brown
But even a gypsy caravan was too much settling
down
And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather
and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay for the
chains you refuse
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
And I miss her more than ever words could say
If I could just taste all of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
Well I wouldn't want her any other way
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| Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up |
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"You Take Me Up", their third single from the
album "Into the Gap". This is the only one of
their videos filmed entirely outdoors. A great
song and a fun video to watch. Let me know what
you think.
Tags : Thompson Twins You Take Up |
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Durée : 243 s |
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