Carhartt WIP presents Breton European tour
- Date published
- 17-Jan-2014
In the 8th Edition of the Carhartt WIP brandbook, Roman Rappak, singer, chief songwriter and guitarist of the British band Breton confessed: “The role of an artist, in my head, is always one of a cipher for everything that is around. You are not a spokesperson, but, rather, like a lightning rod to all kinds of different ideas.”
(picture: Marc Sethi)
After the release of their successful debut LP Other People’s Problems and an extensive tour around the globe, he and his band mates Adam Ainger, Ian Patterson, Ryan McClarnon and Daniel McIlvenny retreated in early 2013 to create their second LP War Room Stories. The album was written over the course of the last year and recorded during summer in an abandoned broadcasting building called the Funkhaus in the grimmer side of Berlin. This time Breton’s own genre-splicing tendencies take root in increasingly more skilled and nuanced ways. The album opener Envy is perhaps the group’s most outright ‘pop’ track to date, whereas first single Got Well Soon fuses glitchy synths with an undulating backbone beat. Traces of hip hop, electronica, indie, and every genre in-between interplay under tracks that are, at face value, still surprisingly accessible. Constantly challenging and pushing against the boundaries of what it means to be in a band in 2013, War Room Stories is the second chapter of a group who aren’t afraid to stick their neck on the line and think about things a little differently. After their inception, Breton quickly established themselves as not only musicians but also a team of artists interested in all realms of the creative process. They produced a series of their own short films with a gritty, uncensored aesthetic, including a selection of video and sound design work for the likes of The Temper Trap, Penguin Prison, and Tricky, as well as remixes for Local Natives, Alt J, and Lana Del Rey. An intensely creative, multi-disciplinary approach that the band will continue after their European tour in cooperation with Carhartt Work In Progress.
The tour will be enriched by a Carhartt WIP Radio tour special, an exclusive interview with singer Roman Rappack as well as merchandise designed and produced by Breton and Carhartt WIP. Soon more at this point.
Carhartt WIP presents Breton European Tour:
06/02/2014 - West Rock, Cognac, France
07/02/2014 - Charada, Madrid, Spain
08/02/2014 - Be Cool, Barcelona, Spain
09/02/2014 - Bikini, Toulouse, France
10/02/2014 - Rockstore, Montpellier, France
11/02/2014 - Kao, Lyon, France
13/02/2014 - Lanificio 159, Rome, Italy
14/02/2014 - Covo, Bologna, Italy
15/02/2014 - Magnolia, Milano, Italy
17/02/2014 - Komplex Klub, Zurich, Switzerland
18/02/2014 - Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
19/02/2014 - La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
20/02/2014 - MTC, Cologne, Germany
21/02/2014 - La Condition Publique, Lille, France
23/02/2014 - Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
24/02/2014 - Uebel & Gefaehrlich, Hamburg, Germany
25/02/2014 - BETA, Copenhagen, Denmark
26/02/2014 - Privatclub, Berlin, Germany
28/02/2014 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
03/03/2014 - Louisiana, Bristol, UK
04/03/2014 - Soup Kitchen, Manchester, UK
05/03/2014 - Village Underground, London, UK
06/03/2014 - La Cigale, Paris, France
07/03/3014 - Le 106, Rouen, France
08/03/2014 - Le Echonova, Vannes, France
More dates in further territories to follow in March and April!
