A performance of Bach’s Cantata 146 Wir mussen durch viel Trubsal (We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God) as part of choral evensong.
The gospel of the day, reflected in the cantata, is a reminder of the ten commandments and man’s difficulty in achieving heaven. The ensemble includes flute, oboes and strings with a prominent part for the organ in the opening sinfonia.
Internationally renowned singer and pianist Jeremy Sassoon presents his latest show: from Gershwin to Winehouse, Bacharach to Dylan.
Held: Princes Road Synagogue, Liverpool, starts 7.30pm.
The Tiger Lillies are one of the foremost avant-garde bands in the world. Double Olivier award winners, their shows are dark, peculiar and varied, with moments of black humour and immense beauty.
This unique, Brechtian Street opera trio tour the world playing concerts and theatre shows such as The Tiger Lillies Christmas Carol, The Ancient Mariner and the West End hit Shockheaded Peter.
The music is an electrifying mix of genres, seamlessly blending electronic beats with rock, funk, and pop elements.
The setlist is unpredictable, filled with both original tracks and surprising covers, each performed with a unique twist. The crowd is diverse and energetic, dancing along to the infectious rhythms.
At certain points during the show, Dr. Orange engages directly with the audience, encouraging sing-alongs or initiating call-and-response chants.
Scruff of the Neck presents Tom Vek at Future Yard on Saturday 5th October.
A long-time staple of the British alternative scene, the self-professed ‘cryptic funk-rock’ multi-instrumentalist returns in 2024 with brand-new EP ‘Confirm Yourself’.
Funk and soul party starters The Allergies return to Future Yard on Thursday 12th September for a hell of a good time.
The duo of DJ Moneyshot and Rackabeat have been delighting dance floors and lighting up radio airwaves since forming The Allergies and releasing their debut album in 2016. Their brand of feel-good funk and hyped-up hip-hop has seen them clock up A List status and numerous ‘Album of The Day’ gongs at BBC 6 Music, and soundtrack a whole host of international ad campaigns.
Year in, year out they’ve sharpened their skills in the studio, dropping one dynamite LP after another.
Scratch DJ collective 2 Nice Crew support.
Booking fees apply. Tickets cost more on the door. Future Yard is a cashless venue.
Future Yard host the return of folk troubadour Charlie Parr on Sunday 15th September.
The bluesman poet comes to Birkenhead once again with a 19-album-strong back catalogue that pulls closely from the sights and sounds around him, his lyrical craftsmanship built by his influences. The sounds from his working-class upbringing—including Folkways legends such as Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie—imbue Parr’s music with stylistic echoes of blues and folk icons of decades past.
Seafoam Green + Mike West support.
Booking fees apply. This event is part of Folk On The Coast festival and is included in the weekend pass.
Future Yard are delighted to be welcoming the legendary Euros Childs to Birkenhead, in association with promoters Seabird Prensents.
Euros Childs has been making music for over 30 years, as a solo artist and as the frontman of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. He’s released 19 solo albums to date, most of which have appeared on his own National Elf label. Since 2019 Euros has also been playing keyboards and lending his voice to Teenage Fanclub, appearing on their last two albums.
This tour will mark Euros’s return to the stage with a band for the first time in seven years. He’ll be joined by long term collaborators Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) Stuart Kidd (Kidd, The Wellgreen) and Selma French (Morgonrode, Frøkedal).
Expect a show full of life, zest and humour that draws on Euros’s extensive back catalogue as well as songs from his forthcoming album Beehive Beach, due in October. With support on the night from captivating Norwegian artist Selma French.
Booking fees apply. Tickets cost more on the door. Future Yard is a cashless venue.
Change is in the air for award-winning artist Robert Vincent.
The Scouse singer/songwriter will release his much-anticipated fourth studio album through Thirty Tigers in 2024 and its music is riding the winds of change in the air. “The songs are less traditional sounding” he reveals. “I’m learning how to lower my barriers and have made a more personal album than ever before”.
It was the start of 2020 when Robert’s third LP, the critically-acclaimed In This Town You’re Owned, was released and walked straight into a worldwide pandemic. That stalled all promotional plans and tours, but the record resonated and won the prestigious Americana Music Association UK’s Album Of The Year award for 2021.
Now, Robert wants to spread his music’s prescient words: “I think there will be mixed memories for anyone who lived through that and hopefully the album was a bit of a soundtrack to those times for some folks” he says. “I had to try and take the positives as an artist. I hadn’t had any time off in many years from gigging and that gave me a bit of a reset… but I’m looking ahead to a successful year of touring and playing these new songs to people”.
The record has captured said intimacy. Robert’s core band came together and made the music live in the studio, looking into the whites of each other’s eyes. “I chose to record closer to home with my usual band of brothers and sisters” (Anna Corcoran on piano, vocals; Jim Kimberley, drums; Danny Williams, bass; Adrian Gautrey, guitar, keys) “and they assisted me beautifully as always. We’ve also got featured musicians like Joe Coombs, an amazing guitar player from the south west, and added inspired bits and mixed the record.”
Hejira is a seven piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from her late ‘70s “jazz period”.
Having released the albums The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and Mingus, Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous jazz musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, Shadows and Light; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire.
Comprised of highly experienced jazz musicians, this band is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who not only has, in her own way, assimilated the poise, power and beauty of Joni’s vocals, but also plays guitar with Joni’s stylistic mannerisms. Expect an evening of the great songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Woodstock’, ‘A Case Of You’, ’Song For Sharon’, ‘Edith And The Kingpin’ and more.