May 15th, 2022
Verboden presents
Verboden Festival Day 5: ACTORS
Light Asylum, Ritual Veil, Jo Passed, Hem Netjer
+19 (with 2 pieces of govt issued ID)
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Vancouver’s premiere darkwave festival celebrates its 5th year! Night five features ACTORS as they make their return to the Rickshaw stage with guests Light Asylum, Jo Passed, Continues, and Hem Netjer. Plus DJ sets by Mirror/Mask and MissBDeath.
The full festival takes place May 11th – 15th across multiple venues in the city. For more information on the festival lineup and to purchase 5 day passes visit: verbodenfestival.com
ACTORS
https://www.actorstheband.com/
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.
Light Asylum
Light Asylum is a Brooklyn-based electronic music duo consisting of Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello.
Jo Passed
Jo Passed originally consisted of Jo and his friend and drummer Mac Lawrie. The two moved to Montreal together, and toured the far-right corner of North America. After Jo’s return to Vancouver, multi-instrumentalist Bella Bébé joined the band in January of 2016, and multimedia artist Megan-Magdalena Bourne joined on bass, after working on a video for the song “Rage” (from Jo Passed’s ‘Out’ EP
Hem Netjer
Dark-Electronic Folk from Vancouver BC, Canada, combining ancient stories, traditional instruments and modern technology to keep the spirits alive.