Grace: the movie?

Grace Jones says there’s five years of recorded material for a film

10 November 2008 - Grace Jones has just released her first album in 19 years and she told 6 Music that she will be on our screens soon as well.

Speaking to Lauren Laverne on 6 Music, she explained: “Sophie Fiennes has been following me around for the last four or five years and it’s going to be at least nine months of editing, that’s how much material we’ve got.

With regards to its content, she went on: “It’s a lot of performance, it’s me in Jamaica, we had a family reunion and it’s the making of the record.”

The star also spoke about the new record, Hurricane, for which she teamed up with Brian Eno, Tricky and the legendary Tony Allen.

"There was no record company, there was no money.  I just did my little underground gigs to pay for it."
Grace Jones

Jones said her new record isn't meant to be mainstream: “It’s not from the trendy producer. Ivor Guest, who produced with me was not known above ground. It’s an underground record that is sticking its head up because there is just nothing else around like it.”

“I just got really disappointed with the system of how I felt I was being forced to make a record that I didn’t want to make.

“I figure everyone is doing the same thing. I mean I love Justin Timberlake and all of that but everything sounds the same.”

Jones told us that the record came about after a band she'd been doing some singing for, Biomechanics, broke up.

She also funded it by herself, saying: “There was no record company, there was no money. I just did my little underground gigs to pay for it and I had the support from all the musicians and everybody who didn’t ask for all the payment right away and that’s what happened.”

Georgie Rogers