Dave Thompson (author)
Dave Thompson (born 4 January 1960) is an English writer who is the author of more than 100 books, largely dealing with rock and pop music, but also covering film, sports, philately, numismatics and erotica.
He was born in Devon, and in the late 1970s wrote and published a punk rock fanzine. In the 1980s he was employed by Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell in London's Docklands. He relocated to the US in 1989. He has written regularly for journals including Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q, Goldmine and Record Collector, as well as for the All Music Guide.
His first published book, U2: Stories for Boys (Plexus, 1985), was the first biography of the band U2. His other books include ones about Depeche Mode, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, ZZ Top and Simple Minds. He wrote the book The Psychedelic Furs: Beautiful Chaos, and has written biographies of other musicians and bands including Kurt Cobain, Deep Purple and Genesis. Thompson has also written extensively on David Bowie, with the biographies Moonage Daydream in 1987 and Hallo Spaceboy in 2006 and the semi-fictional To Major Tom in 2000. Thompson's book Black and White and Blue: Erotic Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR, was published in 2007.
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High Holy Days (band)
High Holy Days is a Canadian post-grunge music group formed in North Bay as the Arcand Band in 1998. In 2000 their name was changed to High Holy Days. The band currently consists of vocalist Marc Arcand, guitarist Bill MacGregor, guitarist Brett Hind, bassist Chris Amey, and drummer Brian Finner. Former members of the band include Dave Thompson (guitarist), Jeremy Galda (bassist), Brian Bird (drummer), and Jason Guindon (drummer).
Overview
The band released their debut album All My Real Friends independently, and subsequently signed to Roadrunner Records in 2003. Roadrunner re-released that album in March 2004. This album subsequently spawned the Canadian hit singles "All My Real Friends", "The River of Styx" and "The Getaway". The album was also released in the United States in the fall of 2004. In Canada MuchMusic aired the videos for All My Real Friends and The Getaway. In the United States the video for The Getaway aired on Fuse (then mmusa).
In April 2006, as reported in the Wigan Evening Post, the band was in Platt Bridge, Wigan, working on their next album. They wanted to get away from Canada and work somewhere quiet, where they were relatively unknown. Whilst working in the studio in Platt Bridge they played gigs in Leigh and in The Tavern in Wigan.
Dave Thompson (Scottish politician)
Dave Thompson (born 20 September 1949) is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent Highlands and Islands at the 2007 election. He was elected for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency in the 2011 election.
Thompson received some media attention in the aftermath of the 2007 election because he pointed out to the returning officer that the number of additional members for each party had been wrongly calculated. The initial calculation would have given Labour four additional seats and the SNP none, which would have resulted in Labour gaining a plurality and winning the election. After Thompson challenged this calculation and the figures were correctly calculated, Labour were allocated three seats and the SNP two. This resulted in the SNP gaining a plurality of one seat and enabled them to form the Scottish Government.
In August 2011, before the main debate on equal marriage in Scotland, Thompson along with two other MSPs- Richard Lyle and Bill Walker had given their support to a motion proposed by John Mason; the motion had included a statement of support for the view that no person or organisation should be forced to be involved or to approve of same-sex marriage, however the motion fell on 5 December 2011.
