Video: Abbey Lee Kershaw Performs Live With Her Band

Here’s a secret on how to make a successful underground New York psych band with infinite scene points: recruit Abbey Lee Kershaw as your tambourinist/keyboardist/something vaguely representing a back-up vocalist.

She has been the face of Chanel, Tom Ford and Versace, and is ranked the 5th best model in the world according to models.com . The Australian supermodel is also trying her hand at music with band Our Mountain. Described as “swampy swagger blues” by lead singer/guitarist Matthew Hutchinson (who happens to be Kerhsaw’s boyfriend and fellow model), the band also comprises Michael Noonan on drums and Daniel Silvester Taylor-Lind on bass.

Forming in 2010 and based in New York (although Kershaw, Hutchinson and Noonan are Australian), Our Mountain has already gone on tour with The Slits, played The Great Escape and gigs across the UK and North America. Their first single, Wooden Hearts, has recently been released with a debut album due out soon. Here’s a look.

Words by Ingrid Kesa

Image by Alexi Lubomirski for Vogue Germany.

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