Breton are Fox & Firkin regulars and favourites, putting on an amazing performance at FoxFest 2009 (I'm sure we'll be seeing them in 2010 as well). Roman's nipples added to the excitement (maybe we'll see them again too).
If you don't know the band, I thoroughly recommend you watch VIRAL, a two minute film that has been made with such clarity of purpose that it I believe it succeeds in the considerable feat of representing what Breton is.
On film, as in their music, they have the confidence to shun the habit of specificity. Carl 2bob says they'll never sound the same twice, and I think I'm inclined to agree. But I'm not sure that there isn't something underlying all of what they do, that could be used to pull it together.
VIRAL exemplifies the source of my confusion. It pieces together finely cut slivers of Breton's varied catalogue and drapes them around images of dedication to their cause and of the self belief that has to be what underpins the artist. On the one hand VIRAL communicates the diversity of the music they create, but on the other it shares with us just one idea: Breton.
It's also like an episode of Art Attack that might have been shown on Channel 4 in the nineties at two o'clock in the morning and aimed at students.
Dan Sumners dan@dansumners.co.uk
