Art Brut
(Downtown)
BIO

"Coming across like a triangulation of Jarvis Cocker, Jonathan Richman, and Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge (were he in on the joke), singer Eddie Argos wields charisma and one-liners in equal measure, disguising pointed pop-cult criticism as humor and vice versa. In the process, he's grabbed UK indie by the lapels and implored it to wake. the. fuck. up. and stop accepting post-punk hand-me-downs and tabloid fuck-ups as its heroes. With a punk-era clarion call-- go and form a band, do it yourself-- Art Brut scowled at (and even picked fights with) stuffed-shirt revivalists, wrote about sex as something other than groupie-baiting myth-making, and punctured the lie that avant-posturing is an appropriate substitute for just putting your head down and rocking out, and they (and we) had a hell of a good time in the process." --Scott Plagenhoef
LINKS

Official Site
MySpace
Downtown
TOURS
1-Nov    "PORTLAND, OR"    Holocene            
2-Nov    "SEATTLE, WA"    Neumo's            
3-Nov    "VANCOUVER, BC"    The Biltmore            
5-Nov    "SALT LAKE CITY, UT"    Urban Lounge            
6-Nov    "DENVER, CO"    Bluebird Theatre            
7-Nov    "LAWRENCE, KS"    The Bottleneck            
9-Nov    "MINNEAPOLIS, MN"    Triple Rock            
10-Nov    "CHICAGO, IL"    Lincoln Hall            
11-Nov    "OBERLIN, OH"    Oberlin College            
12-Nov    "PHILADELPHIA, PA"    North Star            
13-Nov    "BROOKLYN, NY"    Brooklyn Bowl            
14-Nov    "BALTIMORE, MD"    Ottobar            
15-Nov    "NEW YORK, NY"    Bowery Ballroom