Concert News

Art Brut Announce UK Tour Date & New Album

• 6th Mar 2013

Art Brut have released the following statement from the desk of front man Eddie Argos:

“Art Brut have been called many things over the course of our career, not all of them polite. The thing we get called most often is an “art band”, which I accept is totally our fault for putting the word Art in our name. However, Art Brut have never seen ourselves as an art band; we have been adamant since we began that we are in fact a classic rock band.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to begin your career as a classic rock band; no matter how often you persist in referring to yourself as one.

Over the last ten years however Art Brut have been tirelessly working towards the moment we could finally call ourselves a classic rock band and know in our heart of hearts that it was true. Our mission is finally complete.

I submit the following evidence towards the case of us being a CLASSIC ROCK BAND.

• We have been on the front cover of German Rolling Stone
• Toured the world extensively
• Appeared on American Chat Shows
• Posed naked in The NME
• Had our lyrics be the subject of lectures at a Berlin University
• Released four albums over the period of ten years (the last two produced by the legendary Black Francis from the Pixies)
• And finally we are held in universal regard by both our peers and the general public

(actually with that last one I’ve never checked with our peers and have very little to do with the general public but am fairly certain that is the case).

So to celebrate our new status as a CLASSIC ROCK BAND we have decided to release a Best Of Compilation

It is called Art Brut;Top Of The Pops and is a double album (or if you are downloading it, a lot of songs)

CD1 contains the best and most popular songs from our career in chronological order. So you can see clearly that we have followed the CLASSIC ROCK blueprint exactly.

Album One, Excited,
Album Two, Confused,
Album Three Angry,
Album Four Experimental

This is textbook CLASSIC ROCK BAND stuff

CD2 contains rare songs that Freddy Feedback rescued from our vaults, including live songs, covers we finally got round to asking for permission to release, hard to acquire B-Sides and the unreleased demos from our recording sessions for Its A Bit Complicated that took place with Pulp’s Russel Senior (who is not mad I promise). As a treat to ourselves we commisioned one of our favourite artists Michael Riedel to do the art work for us.”

The band are playing live in these venues to celebrate their new status:

May
03 Cologne, Luxor
04 Hamburg, Molotow
06 Berlin, Lido
07 Stuttgart, Schoken
08 Munich, Atomic Cafe
29 London, Scala