Artist:Actor/Model

Debut Mini-Album 'Gossip About Guys' OUT NOW on Mistletone Records. Australia-wide distribution. Like most Actor/Models, Ricky French, Karen Anson and Philip Smilie are extremely talented and can walk and talk at the same time. In 2004 they decided to follow in the footsteps of fellow Actor/Models Milla Jovovich and Naomi Campbell and become 'musicians'. A three-piece band with a lo-fi, high energy philosophy, Actor/Model (pronounced Actor Slash Model) utilise cheap toy keyboards, synths, old beat-up guitars and inventive, pounding drums to construct simple, beat-driven pop songs with an experimental noise punk slant. And if that doesn’t sound bad enough, they are also ‘political’. Jesus. The songs hold up a distorted mirror to consumer culture, the cult of celebrity and the proliferation of suburban shopping mall fashion. There is no one musical style to Actor/Model. No two songs sound the same. The set travels from toe-tapping electro punk to dance to skewed wall-of-sound post- ...