Angine De Poitrine: UK TV debut – Here are the videos of their performance

After weeks of heavy exposure on social media and growing international word-of-mouth, Angine De Poitrine continue their rise with a debut on British television. The masked duo from Québec appeared on "Later… with Jools Holland", the storied English music show regarded as one of the most prestigious stages for both emerging and established artists.
Currently on a European tour — which also stopped in Italy at the Poplar Festival on 30 May — the two Canadian musicians performed "Fabienk" and "Sarniezz" live, tracks taken from "Vol. II", the album released in 2026. The record came in the wake of the hugely popular session they recorded for KEXP, which helped turn Khn and Klek into a viral phenomenon.

For the occasion, the two artists took the stage in their trademark polka-dot costumes, which have long been a central element of their visual identity. The performance of “Fabienk”, presented in a shortened version, was paired with “Sarniezz”, confirming the stage presence and surreal aesthetic that have fuelled the project's online success.
The appearance on “Later… with Jools Holland” marks a further step forward for the duo, coming after the warm reception given to “Vol. II”. Once the European leg wraps up, the band will continue their live activity with a long tour across the United States and Canada running throughout the summer and autumn. Videos of the television performances are already available online.
Here below are the videos of the two performances.

Klek and Khn de Poitrine, brothers in concept and musicians who've shared the same trenches for twenty years, appear on stage in black-and-white polka-dot costumes and papier-mâché masks shaped like phallic noses. It looks like some performance-art prank straight out of Warhol's Factory during an acid trip. And in a way, it is: their very name, Angine de Poitrine, is the French medical term for angina pectoris, the chest pain that precedes a heart attack. They're almost a living oxymoron: music that stops your heart, and music that gets it racing again at 200 bpm. But the real spectacle happens under their fingers. Khn wields a double-necked guitar – half bass, half guitar – hand-modified with extra frets sawed out and glued on. The standard Western octave (12 semitones) is here split into 24 quarter-tones. This isn't a lab curiosity for its own sake: it's the very language of the record. The notes normally found between the frets (a D half-sharp, an E half-flat) become the protagonists rather than mere extras. And yet, miraculously, it all remains graspable. The Western ear recognises each note as distinct, not as some out-of-tune version of a familiar interval. The result is music that seems to come from a neighbouring planet, yet still makes your feet move as if you were still on Earth.
In a rock landscape where innovation is often just a marketing label, Angine de Poitrine have built a genuinely new language starting from a simply mad idea: playing the notes that don't exist. They don't do it with conservatory solemnity, but with a clown's humour and a surgeon's precision. The costumes aren't a clickbait gimmick but a Dada manifesto: erasing the self so the sound can emerge, making the body transparent (even the exposed skin is painted with polka dots to match the costumes) so that only the music remains. And the music, on "Vol. II", is a living organism: sometimes chaotic, sometimes repetitive.

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