ABOUT
What happens when you grow up pissed off, angry, and emotional? You turn it into noise.
Gadfly was formed by Homa and Nigel Young, with bassist Hansen Thingvold. It’s a bilingual, genre-obliterating scream in the face of erasure, repression, and whatever fake shit the scene is selling.
It’s not punk. It’s not metal. It’s not shoegaze. It’s not indie.
It’s all of it — chewed up and spit back out with distortion and disgust.
Think: a loud, sketchy basement show with nihilistic lyrics and a full-blown meltdown.Think: sweating through trauma in Farsi and English.Think: grief and rage slamming into a strobe light at the same time.And this is just the beginning. DIY label. No management. No rules. Just noise, guts, and the need to rupture.Gadfly isn’t trying to make sense — they’re trying to melt your face off.
Live sessions
Music videos
2025
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better lovers /w teenage wrist and gadfly, apr 2025, vancouver bc, the pearl
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gadfly eastcoast tour 2, mar 2025
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black ends west canada tour /w gadfly, feb 2025
i'am eggplant show case headliner, jan 2025, vancouver bc, the pearl
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2024
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Ripsesh christmas party w/ Gadfly and still depths, Dec 2024
Vancouver BC, Red Gat Art Society
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gadfly and cherry pick headliner, oct 2024, vancouver bc, green auto
girls to the front fest headliner, oct 2024, vernon bc, bbdb's
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Purple City Festival w/Spoonbenders
Sept 2024, Edmonton AB, Starlight Room
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spoonbenders canada tour w/ gadfly,
sep 2024
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Gadfly eastcoast tour, aug 2024
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Eventide Music Series w/ Gadfly & Black Ends, July 2024, Victoria BC, Centennial Square
sura album release, jul 2024, vancouver bc, fox cabaret
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Sled Island Festival, Jun 2024
Calgary AB, The Palomino
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Sundog tour headliner, apr 2024, vancouver bc , green auto
DZ Deathrays 10th Anniversary tour, Mar 2024, Vancouver BC, The Pearl​
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upcoming local shows on our socials
gigs/tours
2023
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Ripsesh christmas party w/ Monsterwatch & Gadfly, Dec 2023
Vancouver BC, Red Gat Art Society
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Massif Fest Headliner, Sept 2023
Nelson BC, Eagles Lodge
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gadfly westcoast tour aug 2023
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sick day festival headliner, jul 2023, pender island, ohana farms
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Music waste headliner, jun 2023 ,red gate arts society
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Sled Island Festival w/ sumac, Jun 2023
Calgary AB, Dicken's Pub​
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north by north band 2023 tour, mar 2023.
vancouver bc, red gate arts society
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Devours album release show, jan 2023, vancouver bc, fox cabaret
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2022
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Apranik album release show, dec 2022, Vancouver bc, red gate arts society
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Autum waste headliner, nov 2022
vacouver bc, greenauto
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Shindig night 1 headliner, nov 2022
vacouver bc, red gate arts society
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Green auto halloween show, Headliner oct 2022, Vancouver bc, green auto
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Green auto Fest headliner, july 2022
Vancouver BC, greenauto
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Music waste headliner, june 2022 , Girls rock camp
"The band is creative, intelligent, and devoted to their own brand of thrashing, and crashing"
cups n cakes net work
If you have an opportunity to watch them live, they truly put you in a trance with their mix of sounds.
Discorder Magazine
press
Lemonade & Loudness: How Gadfly Turns Oppression Into Ferocious Rock.
happy mag
Gadfly, has cut through the noise with a commotion so versatile it defies genre boundaries.
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