Antony and the Johnsons is a Mercury Prize-winning music act from New York City. The band is essentially a vehicle for singer Antony Hegarty.
He appeared as a prison inmate, performing an acoustic version of the song "The Rapture" in Steve Buscemi's movie Animal Factory. He also made an appearance in the Sebastian Lifshitz movie Wild Side performing the song "I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy". In the Wachowski brothers' screen adaptation of V for Vendetta, the main characters dance to Antony's "Bird Gerhl" from I am a Bird Now as it plays on V's illicit Wurlitzer. In November 2006 Antony and the Johnsons performed a successful European tour of 'Turning', a multimedia collaboration with video producer Charles Atlas, which focused on themes of transformation and metamorphosis:
Antony gave a break-out performance in the 2006 concert documentary, Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, a star-studded tribute to Leonard Cohen that was later released on DVD along with an accompanying soundtrack. Antony's interpretation of "If it Be Your Will" was considered one of the highlights of the show. The 5-song Another World EP was released on October 7, 2008. Antony and the Johnsons' third album, The Crying Light, is anticipated on January 21, 2009. Additional details have yet to be made known, but Antony has described the theme of the album as being "about landscape and the future".
Band members
* Antony Hegarty - lead vocals
* Julia Kent (previously of Rasputina) - first chair cello
* Parker Kindred - drummer
* Jeff Langston - bassist
* Doug Wieselman - horns
* Maxim Moston - violin, arrangement
* Rob Moose - guitar, violin
Albums
* Antony and the Johnsons (Durtro, 1998; Secretly Canadian 2000 & 2004)
* I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian, February 2005) #5 UK (certified Gold in Sweden)
* The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian, 2009) #65 US, #18 UK, #15 GER, #9 ITA, #2 BEL #1 Europa
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