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.

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.

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.