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 the band Tonstartssbandht with his brother who lived in NYC. Andy had been making solo multi-tracked psych albums from the age of 14, but only took on the “Boay” moniker when he was 20 years old. The project started at the La Brique DIY space in Montreal, where Andy both performed and rented studio space, recording and releasing tapes of guitar and vocal-based psych music.

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 sometimes 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.

In 2012 Andy moved to NYC, where he and his brother played out frequently in the Brooklyn DIY scene, living and recording the Bushwick home/art-space Le Wallet. In 2014 he 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 and side-shows in far-flung locales during tours (Helsinki, Lisbon, Berlin, Singapore, Melbourne, Perth).

Andy Boay parted ways with the DeMarco touring band in 2020 with the pandemic, and then came out of 2021 on a busy touring streak with Tonstartssbandht for a few years. Eventually the duo slowed down to take a break in 2023, so Andy began playing solo again more regularly.

He kicked off this new phase with a special gig back in Montreal with old Beijing friends Gong Gong Gong, and released his set from that evening as a tape of all-new material called LIVE IN MONTREAL – 17 MAY 2023. In late 2023 he toured as direct support for psych-country artist Dougie Poole over 4 weeks in Europe, also booking a handful of solo 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, hitting both coasts and parts of the Midwest.

In May 2026, Andy reissued two of his teenage albums from 2006 as a 20th anniversary 2xLP release, due to popular demands from online fans of the high school-era material.

Andy lives in the East Village of New York City, where he rents a small studio space to write and record his albums onto 8-track cassette recorders (either the Tascam 688 or the Yamaha MT8X). He is preparing to self-release a new LP in the fall of 2026 on the Tonstartssbandht houser label, Does Are.

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