Overview
- The Quebec duo opened for Jack White at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre and then headlined the 600-capacity Mod Club on Tuesday night, July 14, completing an ambitious same-night double bill.
- Jack White acknowledged the band onstage and appeared to wear a polka-dot shirt that echoed their look as he praised Canadian rock, giving the pair visible mainstream endorsement.
- Angine de Poitrine perform in papier-mâché masks and monochrome polka-dotted costumes with triangle emblems and use vocoder-processed ‘alien’ noises, a theatrical persona that includes a self-described 333-year-old alien claim.
- The band played songs from their Polaris Music Prize–nominated album Vol. II, had two more sold-out Mod Club dates that week, and has announced further tour dates in the U.S., Japan, the Netherlands and the U.K.
- Their mix of math-rock musicianship and performance-art spectacle is driving intense fan rituals, rising ticket demand and festival upstaging, and might push organizers to book them on larger stages as their profile grows.