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Earlier this week you may have seen headlines about a fake Angine de Poitrine supposedly "touring Russia." The claim traces back to a recent Exclaim! feature about the Québécois math rock sensations, who have garnered considerable attention for their adventurous music, outlandish papier-mâché masks, and excessively black-and-white polka-dotted visual identity. (Despite compelling evidence unearthed by online sleuthing, Khn and Klek haven't confirmed their identities.) Angine de Poitrine are popular! They were heroes of Record Store Day Canada! And yet, the story didn't sound quite right to me.
"We're living in a weird time where everyone's trying to make money off the band," the Canadian duo's art director Sam Murdock told Exclaim! He continued:
"There's a fake [version of the] band touring Russia already, with the costumes and everything, and they keep tagging the band and they don't even say it's not a real band. And they just have a one-neck guitar."
At first glance, an Instagram video uploaded May 17 seemed to back up the claim. The clip, shot at the Moscow bar Escapist and shared by musician and blogger Brother Slava, shows a guitarist and drummer performing math rock in a close approximation of the Angine aesthetic (minus the double-neck guitar/bass).
This show, it turns out, was just a one-time gag.
"This was a one-off joke event for Escapist bar's birthday," an Escapist rep tells Stereogum.
"We prepared the costumes, and musicians from the bands @hadn_dadn / @shajjm_orchestra and @dyw_dyw_dyw learned the material and put on a great show.
"It was all just a fun joke. Entry was free, and the bar made no commercial profit from it — especially since producing costumes like these is not exactly cheap.
"The band Urin de Potrin has no future plans."
I asked if Angine de Poitrine are popular in Moscow.
"We can't say about all Moscow, but our guests have good taste!" they replied. Escapist also sent us some video. Watch below.
So not really a case of imposters touring Russia. More of a band-dresses-up-as-KISS-for-Halloween situation.
Although Urin de Potrin are broken up, you have plenty of opportunities to catch Angine de Poitrine 1.0 on their six-month world tour, kicking off next week.
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