Three is the magic number: (L-R) Joe Leeway, Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie
© Shutterstock
Before we go any further, let’s make one thing clear:
Thompson Twins are
not
getting back together.
And when
Classic Pop was told in May that all three Twins would be up for talking about the 40th anniversary of their sole No.1 album, Into The Gap, we were happily stunned.
Now an artist, Alannah Currie has spoken to us just once about her pop life, back in 2017, moving away from music altogether since her final album with Tom Bailey as Babble in 1996. Joe Leeway is even more distant from pop – a therapist in California for 20 years, Joe hasn’t been on stage since 1986, when he rejoined Thompson Twins for one show in L.A., a year after quitting the group. Leeway doesn’t seem to have publicly spoken about music once in the intervening 38 years. Yet here they all are.