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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Dave Simpson

‘It was inspired by a snog in a photo-booth’: how Thompson Twins made Hold Me Now

‘Everyone said it would be a hit’ … Joe Leeway, Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie in 1985.
‘Everyone said it would be a hit’ … Joe Leeway, Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie in 1985. Photograph: Ilpo Musto/Rex

Tom Bailey, singer, songwriter, bass, guitar, keyboards

Thompson Twins were a seven-piece, rag-bag, guitar-based band living in a squat when I met Alannah Currie, who was also squatting in London. She was in an anarchic improv band, the Unfuckables, who were clearly not destined for Top of the Pops, but there was something very exciting about her. When I invited her to come on at the end of a Thompson Twins gig, she stole the show.

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