ACTORS with Bootblacks, Devours, The Gathering

Available during ACTORS live stream only

4PM Friday August 6th to Sunday Midnight

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On sale 10am Tuesday, August 10th

Vancouver's ACTORS electrify with a modern take on post-punk. Their anthemic songs evoke the urgency of early-80’s U2, as well as the driving, synth drenched scores that emanated from the era's movie screens. As scene authority Post-Punk.com puts it, the band conjures “cinematic new-wave... that belongs on a Michael Mann soundtrack."

To put it simply, ACTORS produce addictively dancey, uplifting and melancholy sounds... Beautiful, dark music.

ACTORS has toured and established fanbases across the USA, Canada, and Europe.

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Since the group’s founding in 2010, Brooklyn based Bootblacks have been enthralling audiences with their frenetic live shows from the U.S. to Europe. Their sound is described as a balance of contradictions: both pensive and buoyant, referential and modern. Fitting, as the Bootblacks name is derived from novelist William Burroughs’ description of the dark underbelly of glitzy New York City.

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Devours is the stage name of Jeff Cancade, a Canadian electronic musician. His music has been described as "a pseudo-goth, synth-heavy electronic project that occupies a uniquely experimental, queer niche in Vancouver" by The Globe and Mail. Outside of Devours, Cancade has also composed music for television and film.

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Based in Vancouver, Canada they played at some of the city’s finer local music venues, with bands such as X, National Velvet, 13 Engines and Art Bergmann. The Gathering disbanded at the end of 1988 but iInspired by the resurgence of the Post Punk, New Wave and 80’s music movement, they reformed in late 2017.

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This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce au gouvernement du Canada.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rickshaw Theatre, 254 E. Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada