July Talk

The Banff Centre ~ Jenny Belzberg Theatre

Join July Talk at Banff Centre for the Touch X Tour performance marking the 10th anniversary of Touch, the JUNO Award–winning album that crystallized the band’s signature tension between light and dark. Anchored by the striking contrast between co-lead vocalists Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay Goldstein, July Talk’s music thrives on push and pull, intimacy and volatility. Drawing from indie rock, blues, and synth-rock/post-punk, Touch explores connection as something electrifying, fragile, and necessary, qualities that come fully alive in the band’s famously kinetic and emotionally charged live performances.

About July Talk

Even in the stark orderliness of black and white, July Talk has always been a work in progress. More accurately, it’s a work of progress, a communal pursuit of euphoric togetherness as a mode of being. For this compulsively DIY, rigorously self-realizing group, the essence of July Talk has always been the tension between precision and chaos. Between these two extremes, in that kinetic, staticky, sticky space, is where July Talk truly takes shape. On stage, July Talk unfurls and explodes. The action pings from slo-motion commotion to back-bendy communion, fluid (as in bodily) and liquid (as in the dark goo phase of metamorphosis). Things get weird.

For over a decade, July Talk has pursued its relentless project to know itself, a fundamental baseline from which to access raw ecstasy and agony. The three-time JUNO Award-winning band’s unmistakable artistic stamp has spanned from studio albums to documentary films, dive bars to festival stages. July Talk is co-led by Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis, guitarists Ian Docherty and Josh Warburton, drummer Danny Miles and percussionist Dani Nash.