Steve Thompson 
This project began life as a musical. We’re now developing the story to become a Monkees/Beatlesque/Mash TV series. We’re working with Teesside University students to form a scriptwriting team and we may also be working with Middlesbrough College. Men from the Swallwell and Whickham area of Gateshead deserted during the First World War and lived hand-to-mouth … Read more
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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