He Doesn’t Look Very Sick, Does He?

As you may recall, Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. pulled out of his solo Australian visit just the other day, citing a “severe throat infection” that had rendered him mute. Unlike most “we’re too sick to visit” tour cancellations, one would imagine that Hammond, Jr. was telling the truth – but the British tabloids perhaps tell another tale!

The lanky guitarist and singer was yesterday spotted out and about with his GF, model Agyness Deyn, and they don’t seem to be using sign language, if you know what I mean!

Here’s hoping what’s really happening in that photo is Agyness staring off into the middle distance and wishing he’d stayed in bed rather than valiantly trying to walk the dog with her, while Albert tries to croak out a few words – we like him too much for this to be another “But the plane trip is too loooong!” cases for an Australian tour no-show.