Programme:
Anna Clyne Within Her Arms, John Adams Shaker Loops, Julia Perry A Short Piece for Orchestra, Mathilde Wantenaar Serenade (UK premiere), Aaron Breeze The Haçienda (world premiere)
Chloe Rooke conductor
A tapestry of contrast. A whole spectrum of colour. In her Ensemble 10:10 debut, Chloe Rooke pairs John Adams’ ecstatic masterpiece with Anna Clyne’s fragile, yet hauntingly powerful, lament. We see the energy of musical trailblazer Julia Perry captured in gritty, pulsating lyricism, before Mathilde Wantenaar’s creation, serene and enchanting, restores calm – for now. But the night is young, so Aaron Breeze – Highly Commended in the 2024 Rushworth Composition Prize – conjures up a snapshot of a night at a famous club.
Starring Peter Andre – The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is a spectacular high-pitched celebration of timeless music from one of the biggest selling groups of all time. This nostalgic musical journey pays tribute to the life and career of those four boys from Jersey, who started singing under a streetlamp but soon went on to become one of the most recognised groups in history.
From the streets of New Jersey to the dizzying heights of the West End and Broadway, this incredible music has delighted audiences for over five decades, The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons features all your favourite songs including ‘Sherry’, ‘My Eyes Adored You’, ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ and many more.
Featuring a supporting cast of incredible performers from smash-hit award winning West End musicals, The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will leave you on a ‘high’ and guarantee you’ll be saying ‘Oh, What A Night!
150 MILLION RECORDS SOLD20 TOP TEN HITS8 NUMBER ONESROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Formed in 1985 as the antidote to mindless pop, egocentric rock, and the indulgent, bluster of the music business, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain donned black tuxedos, and began giving ‘concerts’ in tiny rooms above old pubs.
Four decades (and 400,000,000 plucks) later they’re still thrilling audiences with their off-beat humour and four-stringed virtuosity from Tasmania to the Arctic Circle, Windsor Castle to Carnegie Hall.
There are no drums, pianos, backing tracks, guitars, or banjos, no pitch shifters or electronic trickery – just an astonishing revelation of the rich palette of orchestration afforded by ukuleles and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and old classics.
Come and celebrate the 40th anniversary of this much-loved institution, on a white-knuckle shopping-trolley dash through every kind of musical genre. From ABBA to ZZ Top, Tchaikovsky to Nirvana, Bluegrass to Broadway, all played on the ‘bonsai guitar”.
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, AC/DC, The Beatles, Dire Straits, Meat Loaf, ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Boston, Toto, Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac and more
An amazing opportunity for rock fans, young and old, to celebrate three decades of the world’s greatest classic rock music with a stunning multi-million dollar sound and light show to match.
Note-for-note, anthem after anthem and riff after riff – culminating in a show-stopping guitar duel, that is definitely not to be missed.
The Wirral born artist has toured with legends Midge Ure and Joan Armatrading, Toby Lee and Xander And The Peace Pirates and has had her music featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing, BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Lancashire.
In addition, she has worked with former Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley. Her vocals feature across the album trilogy Infinite Entanglement. Her well loved track ‘Already Won’ has also been replicated by the metal star on the long awaited album The Redemption of William Black – Infinite Entanglement part III.
Her sound is a combination of strong passionate vocals twinned with percussive, fingerstyle acoustic guitar to deliver her contemporary blues/folk sound. Liz has also released her debut album Beautiful Beasts to local and critical acclaim.
Featuring music from: The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and more!
With Robert Ames conductor, Elle Osili-Wood presenter
Prokofiev Suite, The Love for Three Oranges, Dobrinka Tabakova Accordion Concerto (UK premiere) Co-commission with Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Rachmaninov Symphony No.3
Featuring Andris Poga conductor, Ksenija Sidorova accordion
Thought you knew the accordion? Well, in the hands of Ksenija Sidorova, it takes on magical properties. Her previous visits to Liverpool have been sensational, and now she returns with a brand-new, bespoke showcase by the spectacularly imaginative British-Bulgarian composer, Dobrinka Tabakova. Andris Poga’s welcome return begins with Prokofiev’s cheeky musical fairytale and ends with the bittersweet beauty of Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony – a song of exile by a master of melody. This will be a treat.
Future Yard is excited to welcome Whelligan for the launch of their second album In Pursuit of Inchoate Visions of Beauty. The album is full of memories and characters associated with being an unemployed musician growing up in Birkenhead. Jobcentre chat, glorious wasted hours by the waterside. The could’ve-beens, the might’ve-beens, the has-beens, the never-weres. The dreams, the reality, the hopelessness, the humour and the tenderness which was shared by so many in a town that was slowly but surely being forgotten.
FFO: Grandaddy, Paul Heaton, Julian Cope, The Fernweh The Smiths, Love.
Spain’s Siglo de Oro, the Age of Gold, gave rise to some of the greatest sacred choral music of the Renaissance. The range of emotion covered by composers in the Spanish Renaissance is demonstrated beautifully in the selected works by Cristóbal de Morales and Sebastián de Vivanco that form the basis of this Choral Pilgrimage: Lead, Kindly Light.
These works are complemented by settings of words by two poems from Saint John Henry Newman: Sir James MacMillan’s Nothing in Vain, and the world premiere of Kerensa Briggs’ Lead, Kindly Light, specially commissioned for the Choral Pilgrimage.
Pulled Apart By Horses are alternative rock band founded in Leeds in 2008. They combine elements from punk, grunge and indie rock, to create a raw and unique sound that thrills and menaces.
Their intense stage presence has earned them the reputation as one of the most electrifying live bands in the UK. Their shows teeter the line between precision and total mayhem, they blur the line between band and audience curating an adrenaline fuelled cult built on trust, intensity and shared scars. From clubs to festival stages, every corner becomes a part of the performance with frontman Tom Hudson rarely staying on stage, creating something raw and communal.
Support Acts for the live show include:
+Hazmat
+Two Tonne Machete
