Prime Minister kills it in a music video made twenty years ago
Katrin Jakobsdóttir in the video Listen Baby, a single released by the Bang Gang in 1996. Screenshot/ YouTube
A twenty year old music video has resurfaced today in Icelandic media with Katrín Jakobsdóttir becoming Prime Minister . Jakobsdóttir starred in a music video by Icelandic band Bang Gang playing a femme fatale in shades in 1996.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir became Prime Minister of Iceland yesterday. Iceland Monitor/ Eggert Jóhannesson
Culture blog site Lemúrinn drew attention to the music video explaining that Bang Gang, now known as the renowned musical project of Barði Jóhannsson, started as a surf band over twenty years ago when Jóhannsson teamed up with his college friend Henrik Björnsson, now the frontman of rock band Singapore Sling . Jóhannsson continued using the band name Bang Gang but for a different genre of music.
The band members remained good friends but went their different ways musically, each forging a successful international musical career.
Musicians Barði Jóhannsson of Bang Gang and Henrik Björnsson of Singapore Sling in the video made over twenty years ago. Screenshot/ Youtube
Jakobsdóttir was a friend of theirs who played the part of a fifties style chick in shades making a milk shake and running around Reykjavik being pursued by the two guys.
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Barði Jóhannsson is an enormously successful Icelandic musician and composer. Mbl.is/ Kristinn
Henrik Björnsson, songwriter and frontman of Singapore Sling, a band internationally known in the underground rock scene. Iceland Monitor/ Árni Torfason
