Thompson Twins - help needed

rob · Post by **rob** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:05 pm

Ok, who can tell me what the name or the drummer/drummers were in the Thompson Twins please........

Sara · Post by **Sara** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:13 pm

Was it Chris Bell

nykS5 · Post by **nykS5** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:55 pm

Noooo...it was the girl, with long blonde dreadlocks...Alana Curry....that shows my age and yes - I went to see them in concert at Wembley....

Nyk xx

rob · Post by **rob** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:56 pm

thats one of them. I am trying to find out if Bob Busby was ever a drummer.

He is the IT guy where Melanie works and everyone there is saying he was the drummer. I say they have been taking too many pills !

nykS5 · Post by **nykS5** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 9:01 pm

From Thompson Twins website.......

`The Thompsons were formed in '77 in Sheffield by three schoolchums from Chesterfield - Tom Bailey, Pete Dodd and John Roog. In '79they moved to London, recruiting Chris Bell. In April '80 they hackedtheir first, self-produced single, Squares and Triangles, aroundLondon record shacks - managing to sell 1,500 copies. Bailey then met Alannah Currie, who played sax in an all girl punk group - TheUn****ables. Currie soon became a full member of the Thompsons, asdid their roadie, Joe Leeway. In '81 the Thompsons signed a recordingdeal with Hansa and released their debut album, A Product of... Tenyears on (& four members shorter) Bailey and Currie had a babyand continued to released Queer, their eighth and ultimate album as the Thompsons.'

I'd be great in a pub quiz

Nyk xx