Steve Thompson 
September 12th 1980 – The British Steel Corporation closed down Consett’s iron and steel works thus ending a 140 year old, proud tradition and throwing 3000 people out of work. Steel Town, (the musical) tells the story of the dying days of steel making in Consett and the town’s struggle for survival. All of this … Read more
This is probably the first Kelly/Thompson and is largely experimental. Some of the material found it’s way into the Voices Exhibition but others remain unreleased.
I’m off to Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki in a couple of weeks and they’ve asked me to give a lecture for students in … wait for it: HEAVY METAL
Facebook’s new(ish) feature “on this day” reminded me that 3 years today I posted the picture below under the caption “Plotting revolution in a cellar in Finland”. Indeed we were, hard to identify but the picture I’m clutching is of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin who allegedly had a clandestine meeting in Tampere, Finland where … Read more
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I wrote Lonely at The Top for the Tygers of Pan Tang for their 3rd album “The Cage” back in 1982. They were already planning to record my song “Paris By Air” but their chief songwriter, John Sykes had just quit the band and strong songs were in short supply. I went round to their … Read more