With a voice that shifts from velvet sonorous tones to banshee-like wails, Tender Claws lures you into her haunting world of alt rock songs inspired by gothic fiction and the darker sides of nature and the human condition.
Her fuzz-heavy, 90s-reminiscent sound comprises powerful grunge-influenced outbursts and softer episodes, scattered with serrated guitar and synth elements. Following the release of her most recent single, ‘Disappear’; and shows this year supporting Dog Race, Rosegarden Funeral Party and Bonnie Trash, she eagerly awaits her suitably spooky Halloween show with us.
FFO: QOTSA, PJ Harvey, Garbage, Nirvana, Chelsea Wolfe, Hole, The Mysterines, Curve, Smashing Pumpkins
Tender Claws will be joined by Tits Up, Terraces, and Playmate.
Tickets on sale now.
As part of 20th year celebrations, The Unthanks scale back for some intimate shows, supporting today’s best small venues and including memorable ones from their early days. We are thrilled to welcome them to Future Yard on Thursday 13th November, with a set drawing from all parts of their rich repertoire.
Tickets now all sold-out.
We are thrilled to bring Ríoghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet to Future Yard on Wednesday 12th November as part of The Heads, Hearts and Hooves Tour, a bold and celebratory chapter in the journey of one of the most electrifying and genre-defying live acts performing today, carrying their signature blend of protest soul, twisted folk, deep groove and joyful abandon.
CKY return to the UK for their first headline tour on these shores in five years, with their raucous, skate-punk sound having morphed into a rock ‘n’ roll that’s altogether more muscular, raw and authentic.
Tickets now sold-out.
Counter Culture presents XGENERATIONX at Future Yard on Wednesday 19th November, featuring Mark Laff (Generation X), Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) and Elizabeth Westwood (Westworld).
Legendary punk musician and Generation X drummer Mark Laff is set to makes an electrifying comeback in 2025 with his new project, XGENERATIONX, performing the songs of Generation X that he played such a key role in creating with Billy Idol.
Mark Laff looking forward to the tour commented: “For those who kept the faith, I promise not to disappoint with this new exciting line up. I feel it’s important that XGENERATIONX bring new life to the iconic songs from the 1st and 2nd Generation X albums.”
XGENERATIONX is poised to capture the spirit of Generation X and its songs while pushing the boundaries of their sound in exciting new directions.
Tickets on sale now.
Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch, has just completed work on a brand-new album — a sticky, shimmering swirl of sound and slime (both metaphorical and literal). To celebrate, he’s embarking on a series of special solo shows, previewing songs from the forthcoming release. These intimate performances will see Lynch in raw, exploratory mode, armed with an acoustic guitar, a sampler, and a warped imagination — expect tenderness, weirdness, and a generous dollop of goo.
Tickets on sale now.
Kantos Chamber Choir are back at Future Yard on Sunday 16th November with The Witch Trials.
A mirror to our callous hearts.
The infamous stories of the trials, torture and execution of witches are surely just abominable tales of a bygone era? Yet, with each and every unspeakable act we witness in the modern world, perhaps the Witch Trials tell us just as much about human nature today.
Music and spoken word sit alongside one another, offering an immersive reflection on the Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612. The programme gives us all a chance to grieve the senseless loss of life and confront some heavy truths while hearing some of the actual texts from the trials of 1612.
Featuring Camden Reeves’ haunting ‘Spells, Remedies & Potions’ – “think Black Sabbath and Metallica but for sopranos” – alongside music by Allegri, Byrd, Hildegard, Wainwright Johnston, and an arrangement of a 17th-Century Barbara Strozzi song by Ellie Slorach, this performance takes you on a captivating journey to a dark past and back again.
Doors open 4:30pm. Performance starts 5pm.
Tickets on sale now. Tickets on a ‘Pay What You Can’ basis.
We are excited to announce Liverpool’s own alright (okay) will be taking to Future Yard on Saturday 15th November to celebrate the release of their anticipated debut EP, ‘decent (fine)’.
Always a little off-kilter, always on the edge, alright (okay)’s live sets have become word-of-mouth essentials on the underground circuit. With a sound that fuses alt-rock, post-punk and noise-pop with a scrappy, self aware charm, alright (okay) have quietly built a cult following – supporting acts like Do Nothing, TV Priest and Alien Chicks, appearing at festivals including FOCUS Wales, Stockton Calling and Future Yard’s own Future Now Festival.
The EP’s fuzz soaked lead single ‘Good Friend (He Was)’ is a buzzing, emotionally raw tribute to a childhood pet – thick with fuzz, pounding drums and a steadily building sense of catharsis. It’s the first taste of things to come for the band in 2025, and captures everything the band do best: intensity, honesty, and a weird amount of heart.
With a hand selected lineup of the band’s favourite artists, alright (okay) and friends is sure to be something special.
Tickets on sale now.
Du Blonde comes to Future Yard!
The audacious alter ego of multi-instrumentalist, producer, and visual artist Beth Jeans Houghton comes to Birkenhead on Friday 14th November – a Newcastle-born creative whose trajectory has taken her from folk-rock curiosity to full-throttle alt-rock juggernaut as Du Blonde, a firebrand persona defined by snarling punk edges, fuzz-drenched guitars, and a fierce do-it-yourself ethos.
Her latest album, 2024’s Sniff More Gritty, sees Du Blonde pushing her sound to newfound extremes, layering explosive riffs and searing vocals into an eclectic collage of punk ferocity and power-pop hooks. Capturing the chaotic spirit of a live performance, the record veers from unbridled aggression to disarming vulnerability—a testament to her unwillingness to be fenced in by genre lines or industry norms.
Celebrated for her raw, cathartic live shows, she leaves audiences enthralled by her commanding stage presence and unvarnished passion. For fans and newcomers alike, Du Blonde stands as a symbol of creative reinvention and unflinching authenticity in modern alt-rock—an artist who refuses to play by anyone else’s rule.
POP3, our annual Climate Conference, is headlined this year by the singular Anna B Savage on Thursday 20th November.
A sense of rootedness is at the heart of her third record ‘You and i are Earth’, a record that is as much about healing as it is an unbowed sense of curiosity, and, more simply, “a love letter to a man and to Ireland.”
Following on from her critically acclaimed records A Common Turn and in|FLUX, ‘You and i are Earth’ manages to convey a sense of intimacy, while also being open-ended. Sounds of the sea and bright-eyed strings coax us on opening song Talk to Me, a study in tenderness, which brings us to a place of the elemental. It is a charged signifier that sets the tone, “I don’t think I feel nervous because of the intimacy of it,” says Savage, “the thing I feel nervous about is that it is so delicate and subtle, and the attention economy has made us desire big shiny things that will whisk us away.”
Yet ‘You and i are Earth’ transports differently, swept along by an abiding sense of calm.
This will be a solo performance.
Tickets on sale now.
