Andy Boay

Booking Agent : Luca Ciscognetti & Giorgio Salmoiraghi

Andy Boay started as a dedicated solo project in 2010 while Andy White was living in Montreal and collaborating remotely in Tonstartssbandht with his brother, who lived in NYC. Andy had been making solo multi-tracked psych albums from as early as the age of 14, but only took on the “Boay” moniker when he was 20. Two of his teenage albums from 2006 just received a vinyl reissue on May 1st, 2026, due to popular demand from fans of the high school material.

Between 2010 and 2013 Andy put out multiple tape releases on labels like Arbutus, Bruised Tongue, and the Tonstartssbandht house-label Does Are. When Tonstartssbandht would tour, bookers would often have them play a “band” set, and then two solo sets, to beef up the bill, so in the early 2010s Andy Boay would play gigs in places like Moscow, London, Minsk, Oslo, depending on where the band was touring. This time period in the Montreal music scene also meant that Andy was often playing small shared-bill gigs with future enormous acts like Grimes and Mac DeMarco.

In 2013, Andy Boay went on a 3-week-long US tour supporting the FL rock band Surfer Blood, performing in venues like the El Rey in Los Angeles, Music Hall of Williamsburg in NYC, and Metro in Chicago, among many other halls in towns around the country. At the end of the 2013 Surfer Blood tour, Andy moved to NYC and got a job playing guitar in Mac DeMarco’s touring band, which, along with the Tonstartssbandht touring schedule, placed the Boay solo project on a recording hiatus for awhile, but still peppered the years with solo live performances, often playing after-parties/side-shows in far-flung locales during DeMarco and Tonstartss tours (Helsinki, Lisbon, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth).

Andy Boay parted ways with the DeMarco touring band in 2020 with the pandemic, and then came out of lockdown on a busy touring streak with Tonstartssbandht for a few years. Eventually they slowed down to take a break in 2023, so Andy began playing solo again more regularly.

In late 2023 he toured with psych-country artist Dougie Poole over 4 weeks in Europe, booking a handful of well-attended headlining Andy Boay side-gigs in London, Brighton, and Paris. In July 2025, Andy Boay self-released his first new full-length in 10 years, You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us, and in the autumn of that year he self-booked and toured 30 dates across the US and Canada.
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