Event type: Concert

QUARRY are super pleased to have Welsh band Islet join them on 23 August.

Islet is a Welsh quartet whose free-spirited invention and exuberant intensity is hypnotic, exhilarating and defiantly unique. They began in Cardiff in 2009 when Emma Daman and brothers Mark and John ‘JT’ Thomas resolved to form a band with one rule: that anything was possible.

Soon after, they were joined by Alex Williams. The band had no lead singer or set roles, switching instruments from song to song, melding psych rock, ethereal atmospherics and jagged post punk, with most gigs seeing the walls and spectators played as instruments. They were soon surrounded by a buzz of excitement and mystique, their live shows joyful abandon and unleashed energy.

With the announcement of Yobs debut LP coming out in spring via Fuzz Club records – The band will take over quarry on the 19th bringing back cult Liverpool favourites Strange Collective after a very long absence from the stage

Ahmed & The Romans make the long journey down from Manchester to grace the stage and are fully not to be missed!

And last year saw the end of short lived, but unbelievable band ‘Joe Wildflower’ well… He’s rising from the ashes on the form of Angel Spit! First gig and it’s set to be a wild one

Respect each other and the venue, they will not tolerate any negative behaviour towards anyone or anything!

QUARRY is pleased to present an evening of ritualistic, psychedelic dark folk with Italian duo Nero Kane & Samantha Stella. Support from Ladies in the Radiator & Silver Linings

Psych dark folk songwriter Nero Kane (guitar/vocals), accompanied by artist Samantha Stella (organ/mellotron/vocals), opened the “Temples Tour” with a live performance in the ruins of a Neo-Gothic
cathedral near Leipzig and will perform as a duo in 2024 at various festivals, clubs and in the atmospheric setting of churches and historic sites in Europe and the UK.

Jellyskin merge dance-inducing drum samples, found sound, abrasive guitar and lush harmonies to create their unique and addictive sound. 

With influences reaching far and wide – from 60s girl-groups to PC Music – their debut album In Brine was released in June 2023 via Wrong Speed Records to critical acclaim from The Quietus, BBC 6 Music, and more.

“By coalescing pop and experimental formulas through a decidedly contemporary lens, In Brine inhabits a strange, but brilliant, world of its own.” The Quietus

With support from:

DAMWMSSNI (Jacob + Cody) single handedly revived the Liverpool Music scene being quoted to have said: “Liverpool is really good, but the music is shit” They have played at least ten gigs over two years.

Her Ensemble bring their show ‘Forgotten in History’ to Liverpool, featuring overlooked music written by women spanning the past 2000 years.

noisenights are a vision for the future of classical music: crowdfunded gigs taking world-leading musicians to iconic independent venues.

Her Ensemble’s programme is a response to the discovery that in 2019, just 3.6% of the classical music pieces performed worldwide were written by women. It’s just not true that “there haven’t been that many women composers” – the ensemble will present an eclectic mix of music spanning from Hildegard von Bingen (c1098-1179, abbess, writer, composer, and philosopher) to the brand new folk-inspired Clan from Joanna Borrett.

Drahla emerged in mid 2016 and quickly established themselves as a formidable and distinctive band across their two sold out 7” singles and 2017’s Third Article EP. This in turn garnered the attention of the New York based indie behemoth Captured Tracks to sign the Leeds band. With another sold out 7” and the critically acclaimed debut album, 2019’s ‘Useless Coordinates’ under their belt the band spent most of their time on the road.

Headline tours across Europe, UK, USA & Canada alongside multiple festival appearances, including Meltdown at the behest of The Cure’s Robert Smith. This cemented the band as an uncompromising live force on the stage.

After an almost 3-year hiatus the band bolted back on the scene with two new singles, ‘Under the Glass’ and ‘Lipsync’. Another successful UK & EU tour along with multiple radio plays and a 6-music session with Marc Riley (The bands 4th appearance on the show) marked a solid return for Drahla.

As the dust settles on their latest release, ‘Lipsync’, the band gear up for the announcement of their much-anticipated sophomore album. All eyes will be on Drahla as 2024 will undoubtably the biggest year for the band to date.

On April 20th, The DiN Electronica label is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2024, and is proud to present a special concert with label founder Ian Boddy playing alongside Norwegian ambient guitarist Erik Wøllo at Liverpool’s The Capstone Theatre.

Whilst Boddy has played at The Capstone Theatre several times before, this is, in fact, Wøllo’s debut UK concert. This latter fact is rather surprising as Wøllo has over 50 albums to his name in a range of electronic genres, as well as having toured extensively in Europe & the USA.

The pair will each play a solo set followed by a joint on stage performance, combining Boddy’s use of analogue modular synths with Erik’s haunting Ebow guitar and flowing keyboard lines.

They have previously released three studio albums, and one live album on Boddy’s DiN label. Their last album, Revolve (DiN73) received the Schallwelle Award in Germany for best ambient album in 2023.

Harking from Illinois, Pokey LaFarge previews his latest release inspired by the deep soul not just of the Californian shores, but from distant geographical places like Africa and Latin America. LaFarge sets out to create a body of work that paired emotional lyrics with a killer groove and grabby melodies.

Since his independent debut release in 2006 with Marmalade, LaFarge has made a steady name in the blues and folk scene, beginning in Nashville, working his way to Los Angeles and finally ending up in Mid-Coast Maine, where he began sowing the seeds of his next release, Rhumba Country, working 12-hour days on a local farm – a turn of events that catalyzed an extraordinary burst of creativity and redefined his sense of purpose as an artist.

As he immersed himself in the album’s creation, LaFarge began dreaming up a kaleidoscopic sound informed by his love of music from far-ranging eras and corners of the globe, including mambo, tropicália, rocksteady, and mid-century American rock-and-roll. Co-produced along with Chris Seefried and Bergman and recorded in L.A., the resulting Rhumba Country is an invitation to come together to celebrate life and love.

LaFarge now invites you to experience Rhumba Country in an intimate and memorable live show that will transport you to a plethora of eras and cultures all guided in the comforting and familiar vessel of blues and folk.

AGMP comes to Birkenhead to present alt-country pioneers The Long Ryders in the Future Yard live room on Friday 11th October, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough album Native Sons, playing it live in full.

Often credited as the actual founders of the alt-country movement, a musical genre which did not exist before they burned so brightly in the eighties, The Long Ryders a key link in the Americana chain, uniting Gram Parsons’ Flying Burrito Bros with Wilco and the Jayhawks.