Event type: Concert

We are extremely proud to be working with Tate Liverpool to present Selector – a brand new collaboration that will merge the worlds of contemporary art and contemporary music. The series will launch with Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey guest curating a range of events between 10th and 13th June, including an artist ‘In Conversation’ talk and three fascinating live events, under the title of Music From The Age Of Spiritual Machines.

Selector will explore the musical inspirations on Mark Leckey’s work, through conversation and performance, celebrating the influence music has on his art. Since the latter half of the 20th Century the relationship between music and art in contemporary culture has become increasingly entwined. Artists across genres are inspiring each other, breaking boundaries and experimenting with their practices. Selector is an opportunity to witness these artistic collisions, in a shared, immersive experience.
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Huddersfield born, London based artist aya centres her work with the transfigurative power of experience and memory on the physical body.

Her most recent album hexed! was released on Hyperdub and was nominated as The Quietus’ Album Of The Year for 2025. The album confronts the depression and dysfunction of addiction haunting the golden hours that were romanticised on her debut album im hole.

We are extremely proud to be working with Tate Liverpool to present Selector – a brand new collaboration that will merge the worlds of contemporary art and contemporary music. The series will launch with Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey guest curating a range of events between 10th and 13th June, including an artist ‘In Conversation’ talk and three fascinating live events, under the title of Music From The Age Of Spiritual Machines.

Selector will explore the musical inspirations on Mark Leckey’s work, through conversation and performance, celebrating the influence music has on his art. Since the latter half of the 20th Century the relationship between music and art in contemporary culture has become increasingly entwined. Artists across genres are inspiring each other, breaking boundaries and experimenting with their practices. Selector is an opportunity to witness these artistic collisions, in a shared, immersive experience.
RICHIE CULVER

Richie Culver is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice operates at the interstice of contemporary image culture, expanded sound, and post-documentary poetics. His work investigates the unstable architectures of memory, place, and digital subjectivity, examining how personal and collective narratives migrate across media and sediment within aesthetic form.

Richie Culver first realised he understood art at an afterparty. Growing up by the North Sea on the outskirts of Hull, the artist spent his formative years reckoning with the gravitational pull of his hometown, wracked by anxiety, aimlessness, and low self-esteem. After leaving school to work in a caravan factory to facilitate a growing rave habit, Culver began to pull focus onto himself in the abandoned warehouses and knackered bedsits of Hull’s party scene.

Yet the loose, experimental spirit of the afterparty persists. Culver’s bleak seaside poetry is amplified by threadbare loops worn raw and ragged, spray paint rendered as synthesis. Glacial swells of ambience, industrial throbs of noise, and dark, insomniac drones exhale together as a thick, melancholy haze. Above this drifts the faded pulse of the dance music the artist grew up on, the refracted sounds of the night before filtering deliriously into the morning after.

The Mosh Tots Band headline the hippest show in town this May half-term! Aimed at children aged 0-8, Mosh Tots is there to introduce young people to the rockin’ world of live music in a safe and fun environment.

Future Yard believe that live music should be for everyone, no matter your age. For too long live music venues have been off limits for young children and their parents. Mosh Tots flips that on its head and is an opportunity to share the joy of live music together as a family.

Transmission are proud to present their first mini festival, comprised of queer and trans music from a selection of heavy genres.

Looking for something to do on alternative pride? Get the train to Birkenhead. Carry on the rage and joy of the march with a lineup of politically charged transgender and queer bands and artists.

Expect transgender excellence in the form of electro punk, cybergrind, hardcore and avant garde.

DJ set after party by Dead Animals included with tickets.

50% off tickets available for the Trans+ community, please dm @Transmission.Presents on instagram here.

Lineup 

+ Floralis
+ Dead Animals
+ Blondine
+ sevenyearwaitinglist
+ Tanzplatz
+ DA

Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk & disco and modern post-punk & electro.

The band’s self-titled debut album was released in 2014 on Soundway Records. The follow-up, ‘Uyai’, was released in 2017 on Merge Records.

Ibibio Sound Machine is Eno Williams (vocals), Alfred Kari Bannerman (guitar), Anselmo Netto (percussion), Jose Joyette (drums), Derrick McIntyre (bass), Tony Hayden (trombone, synth), Scott Baylis (trumpet, synth), and Max Grunhard (saxophone, synth)

After the twinning of Liverpool with Ho Chi Minh City, the British Council have brought over Saigon Soul Revival. The band has been bringing alternative pre 1975 music from Saigon back to the stage since 2016 with their live performances.

Honouring the original composers, singers and the golden era from which this music (Nhạc Vàng) came while applying new arrangements and interpretations of old Vietnamese songs. The (core) band includes 5 members consisting of Nguyễn Anh Minh (vocals), Indy Jeremy Vinh Laville (guitar & Đàn Nguyệt ), Nguyễn Hương Bảo Hiếu (drums), Gabriel Kaouros (bass/perc.) and Đăng Nguyễn Khoa (keys).

With tight grooves, psychedelic textures and a powerful unique sound, SSR has performed countless shows at a variety of venues across Vietnam, including major events like Quest Festival, Vibe Nation and Mui Ne Music & Art festivals.

All members of the band are of Vietnamese background or have a strong connection to its culture and heritage through loved ones and their time spent in the country. Their music focuses on compositions that fuse Vietnamese lyrics and sounds with influences of western rock, soul, bolero, tango and other popular genres of this time period, most of which was banned after the war. This project strives to revive this beautiful musical heritage of Vietnam which represents an important cultural bridge between east and west.