FAUX REAL BRING CREATIVELY DARING LIVE SHOW TO NORTH AMERICA WITH UPCOMING HEADLINE TOUR

Acclaimed alternative jesters Faux Real will bring their singularly flamboyant and creatively daring live show to clubs across North America with an eagerly awaited North American headline tour, getting underway February 8 at Austin, TX’s Hotel Vegas and then traveling through a March 1 finale in New York City. Tickets for all announced dates are on sale Friday, December 13 at 10 am local time. 

Known far and wide for their genre-bending, gravity-defying live performances, Faux Real – a.k.a. Los Angeles-based Franco-American brothers Virgile and Elliott Arndt – are heralding the upcoming tour with today’s premiere of an official video of “Walking Away From My Demons,” featuring footage captured on-stage earlier this year during the duo’s live run across Europe and the United Kingdom.

“This video was shot over some 20 shows on tour between May and June 2024, in Europe, the UK and the US,” say Faux Real. “We wanted to make a video medley of Walking Away From My Demons, a fan-favorite at our shows. So we set out to film WAFMD every time we played it, in rooms big or small, day or night, packed or not. It’s all phone footage shot by random audience members, by ourselves, by our videographer Ted Kayumba, to try and reflect what a Faux Real show feels like: sweaty, euphoric, absurd, over-the-top, earnest, glamorous, disgusting, sexual, sacred. Please enjoy responsibly and see you in the pit at the Faux Ever Tour next year.”

 

“Walking Away From My Demons” is but one of the many highlights found on Faux Real’s acclaimed debut album, Faux Ever, available everywhere now via City Slang Records. Hailed by The Guardian as “a high-camp, whimsical collage of Euro-dance, perky Joe Jackson-era synthpop, Sparks-sized harmonies and melodrama, plus post-punk, electro, glam rock and more,” the album includes such singles as “Full Circle,” “Hi Tension,” “Love On The Ground,” “Rent Free,” and “Faux Maux,” all of which thrust Faux Real’s sultry, surreal, and unclassifiable sound towards a glossier pop horizon, favoring ultra-digital software instruments while showcasing their long-standing knack for hugely catchy vocal melodies.

“We’re always questioning things and turning them upside down,” says Elliot Arndt.

“Our sound has never been more personal,” says Virgile Arndt. “The method to this specific madness has been one of constant change, with our studio locale never fixed, always more minimal than the last. Faux Ever is a reflection on art, brotherhood, authenticity, faults and triumphs.”

★ THE FAUX EVER TOUR ★

FEBRUARY

8 – Austin, TX – Hotel Vegas

9 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves

12 – Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture

13 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar

14 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar

16 – San Francisco, CA – Kilowatt

19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Morrocan Lounge

21 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s

24 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s

25 – Detroit, MI – Lager House

26 – Toronto, ON – Baby G

27 – Montreal, QC – Cabaret Foufounes

MARCH

1 – New York, NY – 101 Ave A

6 – Cologne, DE – Bumann & Sohn

7 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo

8 – Luxembourg, LU – De Gudde Wellen

10 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang

11 – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen

12 – Berlin, DE – Kantine am Berghain

14 – Brussels, BE – Atelier 210

15 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Upstairs

18 – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store

19 – London, UK – Scala

20 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall

21 – Manchester, UK – YES Basement

22 – Glasgow, UK – The Flying Duck

 

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