This Julian Plenti fellow looks familiar. Much in the same way that Lois Lane couldn’t recognize Clark Kent as being a bespectacled Superman or how Bugs Bunny in a wig and lipstick always fooled Elmer Fudd, we’re blind to the possibility that Julian Plenti = Paul Banks from Interpol. Julian Plenti Is … Skyscraper is due August 4 on Matador. As previously reported, two of Banks’ Interpol bandmates are also up to other antics: Drummer Sam Fogarino plays in Magnetic Morning with Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin, while Carlos Dengler has produced/starred in a film.
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