A fake version of Angine de Poitrine is gigging in Russia
Everybody wants to see Angine de Poitrine tour in 2026. Now, a fake version of the band has reportedly sprouted up in Russia.
The Quebec group, consisting of Khn de Poitrine on microtonal guitars and vocals and Klek de Poitrine on percussion and vocals, conceal their identities on-stage by wearing trademark elaborate polka-dot costumes, which appear to have been ripped off by a group pretending to be them in Russia.
As per the Canadian publication Exclaim, an Instagram post from May 17th from MediaSlava shows the Russian version of Angine de Poitrine performing in identical attire at a bar called Escapist in Moscow.
However, there is one major difference, which Angine de Poitrine’s art director and layout designer, Sam Murdock, highlighted to Exclaim: “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.”
Notably, Khn de Poitrine uses a double-neck guitar bass, which is where the Russian impersonators have slipped up in their impersonation of the Canadian duo.
It’s not just Russian musicians who are looking at Angine de Poitrine as a potential revenue stream, either, with Murdock noting, “We’re living in a weird time where everyone’s trying to make money off the band.”
Murdock added, “Right now, there’s like 1,500 fake T-shirts online already, and I removed 700 fake T-shirts on Tee Republic and on Red Bubble, but they keep on popping up.”
While getting a ticket to any of the following shows will be a difficult task, Angine de Poitrine are set to return to the UK and Ireland later this year.
They will perform at Psych Fest in both Edinburgh and Manchester in September, as well as End of the Road in Dorset. Then, in October, they will visit Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin and Bristol before playing two dates at The Troxy in London.
In a glowing four-and-a-half-star review of the latest release, Vol II, Far Out observed, “Amid the microtonal menagerie is searing originality that deserves to be applauded in an age where human ingenuity is supposedly under threat. Vol II knocks that notion to the moon with startling silliness and laughable virtuosity.”
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