Among some of the deep cuts included in the deluxe version of Industry & Seduction are tracks from the band’s first album, ...

American people of a certain age will almost all recognize the song, “Lies” by The Thompson Twins. If you were alive in 1983 and listening to music, you heard it. It was popular and, coming out at the ...

Ex-Thompson Twins leader Tom Bailey is glad to acknowledge he was part of a golden age of synthesizer pop. “You have to admit that every era has its little golden age, it’s partly a demographic thing.

When the British new wave band Thompson Twins unplugged its synths for the last time in 1997, singer Tom Bailey didn’t look back for nearly three decades. “Someone told me I didn’t play a Thompson ...

For Tom Bailey and others on the bill, packages such as this weekend’s Totally Tubular Festival are a kind of old home week — in this case for fellow veterans of the early ’80s new wave scene in the U ...

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