The 1980s were heady times for synthesizers and drum machines. Ushering out the distorted three-chord guitars and traditional ...

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 ...

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.

Before this month, any reference to the Thompson Twins was likely about the British pop band that had helped usher in the new wave era in the mid-1980s with hits such as "Hold Me Now" and "Doctor, ...