Mersey Dub Club lands on 27th December 2025!
EQUITY HIFI MEETS SUGAR SHACK SOUNDSYSTEM “IN A UNITY STYLE”.
2 SOUNDSYSTEMS / 4 SCOOPS EACH / ONE VENUE
Mersey Dub Club in association with Future Yard brings you a night of soundsystem culture with two sound systems in one room selecting nothing but good, good vibes.
The Visitors: Equity Hi-Fi is a traditional, hand-built soundsystem from the fells of North Wales. Born from a shared love of music, dancing, and soundsystem culture. Organising gatherings across North Wales and Merseyside for the past two years. Their sessions celebrate diverse musical culture through selections, live elements and collaborations, whilst always staying true to the roots and drawing from their extensive vinyl collections. The message is clear in every tune and dubplate: progression, peace, love, unity and above all, Equity.
The Home Grown: Sugar Shack Sound System, established in 1993 from the Riddim Boat Productions Youth Collective on Wirral Merseyside, built its roots and foundations in the Blues/House party scene of the nineties. With the rise of their sound this transformed into there regular monthly nights at such venues as Bourbon Street/JAKs/ Zanzibar, HeeBieJeeBees, BaaBar, theLomax as well as home grown sessions at the Victoria Ballroom and the Sailing Club in New Brighton. 1999 saw the sound reduce and store as life got more 9-to-5 for its members, but fast forward to the present day and the sound is once again fully functional with our original Larry dub scoops, traditional hand-built pre-amp and effects. We play a selection from early rocksteady to roots rock reggae to heavy dub and steppa’s via our collective of selectas via digital and vinyl formats.
Mersey Dub Club est. June 2025 is our new gathering which will hopefully grow as we follow the river energy and collaborate with the reggae foundations and new youth sound we find on its banks within our community.
RESPECT THE SOUND LOVE THE PEOPLE RESPECT THE VENUE
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Navigation Festival is back at Future Yard for the 2nd Year!
Across two stages, Events471 presents artists from around the country and locally to create a lineup of live music, and spoken word performances offering something truly unique for anyone who enjoys stepping outside the mainstream. This event showcases some of our favourite local songwriters and poets, blending local talent with nationally acclaimed artists across two unique stages.
Headlined by Meryl Streek – more acts to be announced soon.
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Join us for a rich, creative experience that blends sound, story, and soul — featuring the acclaimed Kathryn Williams with support from Matt Deighton and Mike Ryan on 24th February 2026.
A true artist in every sense, Kathryn Williams is a Mercury Prize–nominated singer-songwriter, novelist, and painter whose work spans nearly three decades and 17 albums. Her delicate, heartfelt songwriting and evocative storytelling have made her one of the UK’s most respected voices.
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Pygmy Twylyte return to Birkenhead!
After a storming show with us in February 2025, Pygmy Twylyte return once again to show us why they’re the ultimate Zappa Tribute band.
Navigating the vast Zappa oeuvre then is no mean feat, but Scotland’s Pygmy Twylyte have embraced the challenge with gusto. Since their inception in 2018, the band have selected a core body of classic material, complemented with a rotating offering of more obscure cuts, and blasted this to delighted audiences across the UK.
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TOUCAN is the funk, pop and soul project of Irish songwriter Conor Clancy, emerging as one of the most exciting new voices to break out of Ireland. With brass-driven grooves, velvet-rich vocals and songs that bridge Motown soul and modern pop, he’s the kind of artist built for festival stages and sold-out venues.
Since his breakout single We Fell For Miles, TOUCAN has sold out headline shows in Dublin, London, Bristol, Cork and beyond, and clocked over 5 million streams to date. UK crowds have already felt his live spark through high-energy sets at Love Supreme, Meltdown, and Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul. He’s supported icons including Nile Rodgers & CHIC, James Blunt and Durand Jones & The Indications, as well as The Average White Band at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Most recently, he joined Daði Freyr on his European tour.
Now, with brand-new music on the horizon, TOUCAN is announcing tour dates across the UK and Ireland. Expect sweaty dancing, singalongs, and a sound as timeless as it is fresh.
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We are thrilled to host Omar Perry + ERM at Future Yard on Friday 13th February 2026. The son of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and his former band team up on ‘Channelling Lee Scratch Perry’, their new album paying homage to the godfather of Reggae Dub himself. It’s a sonic tribute to LSP where Omar is able to keeps his identity as a solo artist, whilst still exploring the mind and soul barrier to re-create the embodiment of his father.
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Manchester Collective Presents Sky with the Four Suns live at Future Yard on Saturday 7th February 2026.
Enter a realm flooded with light and sound.
The Alaskan wilderness and the Arctic sky is where night and day steadily unfold with a special kind of magic. These horizons stretch far and wide across the nature-infused music of John Luther Adams. His ‘Canticles of the Sky’ for string quartet is stark, bright and expansive. It takes inspiration from sunbeams that hit ice crystals and refract, forming vivid halos and sundogs. To hear it live is to feel the steady, creeping warmth of a frosty day…
On our way to these distant soundscapes, we bask in the radiant purity of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Summa’ and briefly leave Earth behind for alien terrains. Experimental British musician and composer Mica Levi is best known for their scores for films like Under the Skin and The Zone of Interest.
In a new commission for the Collective, Jasmine Morris manipulates time with her slow-crawling textures and otherworldly sounds.
Join us and ascend to the highest heights.
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Future Yard are excited to welcome African Head Charge for their 45th Anniversary.
Known for their transcendent live performances and studio work, African Head Charge combines African traditions with modern dub and experimental electronic elements, creating a hypnotic sound that defies genres. Their live shows pulse with tribal drum beats, soulful chanting, and deep, thrumming basslines, all elevated by heavy electronic sampling. This evolving, powerful live sound continues to inspire both their loyal fanbase and a new generation of listeners worldwide.
Utah Saints have been making music, DJing and playing gigs around the globe since the birth of House Music.
The world renowned duo have released 9 Top 40 UK hits, 4 of which hit the Top 10 and sold over 2 million records worldwide (equivalent to 800m+ streams).
Precariously walking the tightrope between genres and the underground and mainstream, Utah Saints roots are firmly in electronic dance music.
Having met in a club in Leeds at the beginning of the rave movement in the UK they’ve subsequently established themselves as pioneers of sampling in dance music.
They return to Birkenhead on Friday 29.05.2026 for a special show that we’re incredibly excited for. THIS SHOW IS NOW ALL SOLD-OUT.
Join Studio 5, Bug House Beasts, Random Inspiration + The Editions as we raise money for Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Cancer & Stroke units at Arrowe Park.
