Johnny Depp is setting up his own record label, to be called Unison Music.
The star already has an A&R team scouting the UK for new talent and, according to reports, one was at London’s Monarch earlier this month.
An insider told The Sun: “Johnny has always been passionate about music. He’s taking a really hands-on approach to signing acts. Obviously he can’t get to as many gigs as he would like but he’s got a good team around him and will personally vet any signings that they make.”
The Pirates of the Caribbean star has long been a massive music fan – he played guitar on the 1997 Oasis track ‘Fade In-Out’ and appeared on the soundtrack to his 2003 film ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’.
More recently, Depp helped Sheffield band Babybird return to the limelight nearly 14 years after ‘You’re Gorgeous’ charted across the world. The movie star funded studio time for the band to record their latest album, ‘Ex-Maniac’, and also featured on the track ‘Unloveable’ and directed its music video.
This is such great news! Not only will Johnny appear on a new album by Babybird, he has also directed their new music video! The said album is due for release in February 2010, following the band’s short tour this November.
It’s 13 years since Babybird almost topped the UK charts with “You’re Gorgeous”, and now the band are trying again – this time with help from Johnny Depp. The Oscar-nominated actor appears on the Sheffield group’s forthcoming album, and has directed their new music video.
Depp “makes a cameo appearance” on “Ex-Maniac”, Babybird’s forthcoming sixth album. The Hollywood A-lister is reportedly a long-time fan of the band, and introduced frontman Stephen Jones to the new album’s producers, Bruce Witkin and Ryan Dorn. Witkin played with Depp in their high-school band, Kids, and has since worked with Adam Ant and Depp’s partner, Vanessa Paradis.
The actor was also spotted directing Babybird’s two-day video shoot in late September. Dressed in a beanie hat, heavy jacket and white-rimmed glasses, Depp ordered Jones around the set at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. The video also features British actor Stephen Graham, star of “This Is England”, several “Arctic Monkeys” videos, and “Public Enemies” alongside Depp.
On July 31, photographer Francois-Marie Banier released his photobook, Francois-Marie Banier: I Missed You, showcasing some of his best work which includes Johnny. Scans have been added to the gallery.
For the past three decades French photographer François-Marie Banier has turned his lens on Yves Saint Laurent, Johnny Depp, Samuel Beckett, Silvana Mangano and Vladimir Horowitz, among other icons. He is equally enthralled with capturing anonymous life on the street: “My thirst for faces, for bodies, for ways of sitting, standing and walking and for newly discovered gazes slakes all other thirsts. My thirst for music, for the sea, for mountain peaks, for the myriad pleasures and feelings that make life so varied, so similar, so captivatingly unpredictable.” Banier, who began his career as a respected playwright and novelist, fuses the visual and textual by writing and painting on top of his dynamic and playful black-and-white photographs. The result, showcased in this volume, is a uniquely diaristic, poetic and personal form of portraiture.
You can purchase the book online by clicking here.
Johnny is set to guest star in Spongebob Squarepants by contributing his voice for the character, Jack Kahuna Laguna (JKL). The episode is only set to air on April 17, but a video of it is inevitably already on YouTube. Screen caps have been added to the gallery!
And while I get the streaming video archive set up, you can temporarily view the YouTube-embedded video of the episode below! I have successfully uploaded the video to our new streaming video archive. You can watch the video below! It is only of Johnny’s character’s scenes, though.
According to The Mirror, Johnny is set to contribute his voice in Spongebob Squarepants’ 10th birthday episode!
First it was David Bowie, now Johnny Depp has landed a cameo in Sponge Bob! The Pirates Of The Caribbean star is helping the sponge to celebrate his 10th birthday this spring with a feature-length episode.
Johnny will voice a surf dude called Jack Kahuna Laguna who gets stranded on a desert island with the Bobster and Patrick.
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