Video evidence of Super Super-model Agyness Deyn’s musical ambition arrived in the form of this collaboration with Five O’Clock Heroes last week. At the risk of repeating ourselves, it’s a bit Police, a bit Roxette, a bit Automatic. ‘Who’ wasn’t by any means the face-racking embarrassment many would expect, but it was a rather tepid and unremarkable effort. Predictably enough it’ll be out for you to pore over on the 23rd of June, but our interest has been snared by quotes from Deyn noted down in this week’s NME.
There’s the usual blather about how Deyn has known Five O’Clock Heroes frontman Antony Ellis for “years and years” and how he was “the first person that got me into playing the guitar”. That enthusiasm has resulted, though, in a new band, called Gene Jacket and helmed by Deyn and with Jackson Pollis of Tiny Masters of Today on drums.
“We’ve got three or four songs,” Deyn says of her new beat trio, completed by New Yorker Alanna Masterson. “We wrote a really cool song at Coachella actually, which was exciting. It’s called ‘Hotel’.
“We wrote another one called ‘Yellow Tights’. It sounds like The Vaselines, The Moldy Peaches, maybe a bit like Animal Collective,” she continues.
“Just sounds, experimenting with stuff. I’ve always loved music. I started playing guitar a few years ago and I’m not Jimi Hendrix or anything, but it’s relaxing to play some music.”
Criticism will flow with the comments below, DiS imagines, but Deyn’s already on the defensive.
“People are going to say, ‘You’re a model’, but I think you should do things that make you happy. To do other things aside from what you do is really satisfying and fun.”
Five O’Clock Heroes feat. Agyness Deyn - 'Who'
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I wish she'd fuck off already
I'd tap that
A song that sounds like both the Vaselines and Animal Collective
would be quite something. (And quite unlistenable.)
the video just feels like an advert for the brand of agggyness
a music video for her USP as a model.
the guy looks
like sylvester stallone in the video.
Obviously if she wants to be in a band that's absolutely fine.
They may be good or they may not be good. My only frustration's gonna come when people take an interest in them 'cos they're that band Agyness Deyn's in rather than the music.
Obviously people have the right to do whatever the hell they want in life but in an ideal world anyone moving from one field (being photographed a lot) to another (making music) should have to start again from scratch in terms of making a success of it.
^This, completely
Start again from scratch..
and how can she do that exactly, apart from faking her death, getting plastic surgery and a whole new identity? Actually, that's not that bad an idea..
"you should do things that make you happy.”
like criticising talentless cunts...
FUCK OFF YOU TALENTLESS CUNT!!
Hmmm...that was "really satisfying and fun."
i'm sorry, but who the fuck is Agyness Dean?
suddenly everyone's writing about her, there's bile and lust and everything, but who the hell is she? what's she famous for? is she an actress? a scientist? a presenter? is she, god-forbid, a non-specific "celebrity"?
oh, i've just read the article. she's a model. feel a bit foolish now.
.
jesus christ save me from this shit world...
Quite.
more name-dropping
than a observer music monthly article on name dropping
What a cunt
That is all
Kate moss'll be next.... :/
She's already done it
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Having heard this girl talk...
i can't believe she'd know who Animal Collective are. I expect the dick out of FOCH has told her exactly who to mention.
From the sounds of that track
it sounds as if there's a touch of the AutoTune's about her voice.
im more angry about the
fact that bloody Animal Collective are mentioned at least 36 times a day on DIS.
...anyway is this song actually that bad?
the dude sounds like the dude from Buffalo Tom.
It's great
if you like Roxette and the Police, eh.
I have never felt so much hate for someone.
I refer you to the answer I gave earlier
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/3010426
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1tv5cCvaI
She's come such a long way
since she hosted Have I Got News For You
i fucking hate this woman!
fuck off.
It is so tiring to read about celebre-tat pricks
The world of fashion / media / pr is a circle-jerk in a pigpit. Fuck this bint and shame on anyone who does not call it for what it is - wrong.
what universe?
In what universe is Jackson Pollis the drummer of Tiny Masters Of Today? Because in this one it's Russell Simins.
oh, this one
I just got this from Mr. Pollis:
"i started drumming for tiny's back in january or something like that. not sure what russel is doing now i know he has some project with dan the automator or something."