Manchester Collective return to Future Yard once again with The Turning on Thursday 5th June, featuring a unique team up of both Rakhi and Simmy Singh on violin.
Under white noise and digital chatter, an ancient planetary pull…
It’s late spring when the evenings are starting to glow. On the horizon, the longest day of the year. Put the world on pause and lose yourself in a sound world where earthy Celtic folk flows into lively improvisations and brave, experimental new music. Sisters Rakhi and Simmy Singh spent their early years in the Welsh countryside, immersed in a blend of traditional Indian music, Western classical and folk. Now, they thread together these diverse influences in this intimate performance for violin duo and electronics, drawing us into the mysterious rhythms of the natural world. Nature may be a source of healing and inspiration, but our relationship with it is both precious and extremely fragile. ‘No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference’ is a journey in six parts, capturing the urgency of the environmental movement. Not just a lament for what’s lost, but ultimately a call for active hope and radical action.
The great turning is here and now – there’s no escaping it.
Tickets on sale now (including a limited number of discounted tickets for Birkenhead residents).
Society of Losers presents Loserpalooza 4 at Future Yard on Saturday 2nd August packed with 9 bands across 2 stages for extra fun! Frenetic alt-rock behemoths Pulled Apart By Horses headline, with Crapsons + Two Tonne Machete joining the bill, plus many more still to come.
It’s fun to lose.
1pm doors. Tickets on sale now.
Future Now returns home for 2025 with three separate shows at Future Yard across Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th August, once again bringing the future of music to the Left Bank on August Bank Holiday.
PUSSY RIOT: RIOT DAYS headline the outdoor FY Garden stage on Sunday 24th August, the art punk protest collective, made up of Masha Alyokhina, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot and Lucy Shtein close our August Bank Holiday collection of shows with a live show and performance art piece. CLT DRP, Alien Chicks and Jodie Langford all perform in Birkenhead (more acts still to come!) for a day of punk resistance.
Riot Days is a multimedia performance featuring Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and is based on her memoir of the same name. The project blends live music, spoken word, video, and performance art to tell the story of the group’s activism and her experience in a Russian prison following their infamous 2012 protest. After touring internationally Riot Days is back with a new show in 2025 including topics such as the oppression and violence against the LGBTQ+ community, the story of Alexey Navalny and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Individual day tickets available now. A limited number of reduced price ticket bundles for Sunday and Friday’s Future Now Opening Night are also available.
Future Now returns home for 2025 with three separate shows at Future Yard across Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th August, once again bringing the future of music to the Left Bank on August Bank Holiday.
Los Bitchos headline the outdoor FY Garden Stage on Saturday 23rd August, a pan-global instrumental collective tripping out on Tequila and sun-kissed Cumbia vibes, and also curate the day’s line-up, featuring Lime Garden, Mandrake Handshake + Yumi and the Weather (more still tba!), for a day of blissed-out indie, pysch and alt-pop under the blazing Birko sun.
Made up of lead guitarist Serra, who carries both Australian and Turkish heritage, Uruguayan synth and keytar player Agustina Ruiz, Swedish bassist Josefine Jonsson and British drummer Nic Crawshaw, Los Bitchos are united by a commitment to having fun. It’s a contagious energy they’ve had no problem transmitting to the world since the band officially arrived in 2019.
Individual day tickets available now. A limited number of reduced price ticket bundles for Saturday and Friday’s Future Now Opening Night are also available.
Liverpool Bach Collective was formed in 2013, with the aim of putting on performances of J S Bach’s cantatas in churches in and around Liverpool every month as part of Sunday Evensong or Vespers. The cantatas chosen are based on, or are at least relevant to, the readings of the day in the churches visited.
The Collective usually consists of eight singers and an ensemble of around ten players, generally strings, oboes, bassoon and organ; the ensemble is enlarged when the music demands it. The performers are a mix of professional, semi-professional and amateur musicians, all of whom have a love for the music of Bach and are united in their passion and their commitment in performing these wonderful works.
As the Collective’s season began, so it ends, with a cantata of general praise as the Collective’s contribution to this year’s Prescot Festival. In this festive work, to the usual instrumental ensemble, four vocal soloists and chorus, are added three trumpets and timpani.
By the end of the current season, the Collective will have given eighty-one cantata performances, involving sixty-six different cantatas in forty-three churches, from Hightown to Rainhill and Ince Blundell to Birkenhead. The ensemble continues to enlarge its following of interested listeners.
St Mary’s Church (Prescot Parish Church)
Church Street
Prescot
L34 1LA
Admission: Free on the door
YAWN DYLYFU FEST | Yawn returns to the FY Garden once again on Sat 9th August with a suitably Welsh flair to proceedings as Gruff Rhys takes the reins from BRJ to headline the third edition of the all-day celebration.
Headlining the first ever summer festival at Future Yard in 2021 and coming off the back of a nationwide co-headline tour with Bill Ryder-Jones last year, Gruff Rhys is a name that will need no introduction to any Yawn fans new and old, and the tenured psych-rock explorer is all set to top a bill solidifying the long-standing sonic relations between the Wirral and Wales.
Tickets on sale now.
Bosh Promotions comes to Future Yard on Thursday 22nd May to present Boshfest, a festival style showcase including bands and duos based in Chester and Merseyside.
There is bound to be something you’ll enjoy as each group has a different style and genre to keep the evening fresh and entertaining. You will hear everything from some well known pop tunes ranging from the likes of Teddy Swims and Madonna, acoustic style pieces, a rock band playing songs from groups such as Muse, a folk country group covering the likes of The Black Crowes and some indie style tunes. We hope something has peaked your interest and we’ll see you on the 22nd May for an evening of live music!
Chrome, Evergreen, Northlight, El Goblino, The Bell Bottoms, Girlie/pop and Big Switch all perform.
Shh! Sip away and sway and celebrate the sounds of summer, at the newest Jazz night in Liverpool.
Join us for an exciting evening of live fun music, with sultry sounds that will transport you to a world of sophistication and rhythm with a Latin twist. The Secret Jazz Club warmly invites you to enjoy the upbeat sounds of Latin Jazz, on a night where summer starts. Descend into our stylish basement bar – for those lucky enough to know the password – and unwind with friends in a vibrant and relaxing atmosphere. Whether you’re a jazz aficionado or simply looking for a unique night out this summer, this event will leave you tapping your feet and craving more.
This is a ticketed event with a limited number of seats available, so advance booking is advised. Last orders at the bar will be called at 10.30pm and we invite you to stay up until 11pm, should you wish to continue your evening a little longer. The Secret Jazz Club is a password-protected event; the code you’ll need to pass through the door will be emailed to you upon booking.
We welcome The Cubical to Future Yard on Friday 11th July.
Based in Liverpool and having spent the better part of the last decade building up an incredible reputation as one of Europe’s finest underground bands, The Cubical have recently released their fifth studio album ‘Cut Me Like A Hog’ (Folc Records), having received critical acclaim for previous albums as well as a rarities collection and a live disc.
Their sound is one that is essentially based in the blues, but like Captain Beefheart, Zappa and Tom Waits before them they twist it around, shake it up and inevitably end up with something altogether a little weirder. A Cubical live performance has been likened to a “rock n roll medicine show,” an assault on the senses, leaving audiences worldwide foaming at the mouth, trembling at the knees and aching at the loins from their ferociously intense and hypnotic shows.
Rongo Rongo + Feral Wheel support.
WAX + GEARS RETURNS! Our pedal-powered, off-grid Music Carnival is back for 2025, and this time we’re welcoming along Stealing Sheep to headline!
WAX + GEARS, a one-day festival of emerging music, sustainable practice and climate activism, takes place in an off-grid, pedal-powered arena within our large outdoor garden space at Future Yard. Drawing together the ideas of music discovery, vinyl culture, cycling, DIY, analogue and with an eco-conscious aesthetic, Wax + Gears will be a platform based around community, collective enrichment and celebration.
Stealing Sheep are the Sugababes of our time, but with a unique twist — they play their own instruments, produce their own beats, and direct their own music videos. They are a power trio like no other, blending obscure musical innovation with visual art inspired by Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and the KLF.
The event will be completely off-grid, with all power generated by a bank of dynamo bikes adjacent to the stage. The audience will be encouraged to ‘keep the pedals turning so the records keep on spinning!’ throughout the day.
This year we’ll be joined by headliners Stealing Sheep, with Ruby Duff, Disco in Sochi, TIERNY, Clockwork Gibbons, Emily Baron + Dance 4 Plants DJs.
