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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.
Apr 16, 2022 · Bailey and Currie themselves parted company in 2003 and Alannah would later marry one half of The KLF, Jimmy Cauty. She Founded her own glass making studio and campaigns against genetically modified foods while continuing to produce her ‘exclusive’ range of art under the name of ‘Miss Pokeno’.
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...
Sep 27, 2023 · During her time in Thompson Twins, Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey became romantically involved, later going on to marry. The couple welcomed their first child together, Jackson, in 1987 and had their second child, Indigo, five years later in 1992.
- 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 ...
Mar 29, 2023 · When Bailey started his own dub project, International Observer, Currie threw herself into glass art and environmental activism, founding the rabble-rousing Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE). After 10 years in New Zealand, Currie and Bailey split in 2004 and returned separately to London.
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Jul 22, 2022 · 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...
