FAUX REAL
Bring creatively daring live show to the UK, Europe and North America for upcoming headline tour with a London show at The Scala on 19 March 2025 – tickets HERE
Visionary art-pop duo share official music video for “Walking Away From My Demons” (live) featuring performance footage filmed on tour earlier this year – watch HERE
Acclaimed debut album, Faux Ever, today named one of BBC Radio 6 Music’s Albums Of The Year – available everywhere now via City Slang
Acclaimed alternative jesters Faux Real will bring their singularly flamboyant and creatively daring live show to venues across the UK, Europe and North America early next year. Following an explosive UK and European tour as special guests of labelmates Los Bitchos, the two-piece will kick off their tour in Austin in February before returning to Europe and the UK for a full headline tour in March 2025. The FAUX EVER TOUR will include their biggest show to date at The Scala in London on 19 March 2025. Tickets are on sale now and available here.
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 an official live video for “Walking Away From My Demons”, featuring footage captured on-stage earlier this year.
“This video was shot over some 20 shows on tour between May and June 2024, in Europe, the UK and the US,” says 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.”
Watch the video for “Walking Away From My Demons” (live) below.
“Walking Away From My Demons” is but one of the many highlights found on Faux Real’s acclaimed debut album, Faux Ever, which was today named by BBC Radio 6 Music as one of their coveted Albums Of The Year. Available everywhere now via City Slang Records, the album has been 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 also includes singles, “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.”
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★ 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 Moroccan Lounge
21 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
24 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s
25 – Detroit, MI – Lager House
26 – Toronto, ON – The Baby G
27 – Montreal, QC – Cabaret Fouf
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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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago