This fake Angine de Poitrine band has been pretending to be the real thing – but they’re using a single-neck guitar
A fake version of dotty duo Angine de Poitrine has been spotted (pun intended) playing a show in Russia, but with one tell-tale sign: their ‘Khn de Poitrine’ has been playing a single-neck guitar.
The real duo, which consists of the anonymous Khn de Poitrine on guitars and Klek de Poitrine on drums, has caught the attention of Dave Grohl and Lars Ulrich, and amassed millions of views online with their viral live session for the US radio station KEXP.
This fake version has caught the attention of the band’s team, specifically art director Sam Murdock, who claims they’re tagging the real band in social media posts and have not disclosed that they are not the real deal themselves.
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Speaking to Exclaim!, Murdock says, “We’re living in a weird time where everyone’s trying to make money off the band. 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.
“It’s crazy that so many people would [make these]. There’s a fake [version of the] band touring Russia already, with the costumes and everything, and they keep tagging the band [on socials] and they don’t even say it’s not a real band. And they just have a one-neck guitar.”
Further addressing the band’s surge in popularity, he adds: “Things that would happen over five years are happening over five weeks.”
You can watch the imposter Angine de Poitrine playing a show at a venue in Moscow in the video below:
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In a recent interview with The Guardian, the pair said they don’t plan on changing their costumes or stage set up as a result of their growing fame.
“People have fallen in love with the band as it’s always been,” said Khn. “So we’re not gonna change everything [because] we have a bigger budget now. We’re emotionally attached to our old beaten-up costumes that have been in car accidents and are full of snot. We think people love the fact that you can feel they have lived.”
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