On Thursday 3rd August Future Yard hosts Yardageddon an evening of guitar driven fun featuring three separate bands, with two sets each, all across one single night.
Firm Future Yard favourites and local stars Superstore, Polygamy and smallman bigcar all perform for your auditory pleasure.
Kunst Site presents an ambient night filled with mellow tunes and poetry by local singer-songwriters Sophie Bernice, Poppy Shrimpton and several spoken word artists.
If the weather is good all of the performances will be held in the newly renovated garden area of Quarry! Otherwise, it will be held inside with seating available indoors and outdoors.
Hailing from Northwich, Cheshire, The Zangwills make the short journey north when they headline Future Yard on Saturday 10th June.
Made up of Jake, Sam, Adam and Ed, the band formed in 2017, releasing their debut single New Heights in December of the same year and have since released music steadily, including 2 EP’s It’s Really Up to You and In Amongst the Glitter.
Each member bringing very different influences to the band which, along with Jake’s unique voice, is reflected in their distinctive, instantly recognisable sound. Tricky to pin down for comparison, the band cite David Bowie, Patti Smith, The Cure & The Strokes among their influences.
The four-piece have a reputation for their incredibly strong live sets, now including Jess Lees on backing vocals. Experience it for yourself in their live room this summer.
They’re delighted to be hosting Japanese singer-songwriter, poetry rapper and composer Haru Nemuri here at Future Yard, on her new Shunka Ryougen tour.
Inspired equally by American post hardcore icons such as Fugazi and Japanese avant-garde music legend Susumu Hirasawa, Haru Nemuri has enjoyed huge success in touring Japan as well as scoring huge success at Primavera Sound festival in 2019.
The popularity and breakout success of 2022’s Shunka Ryougen album has led to a run of choice UK and European dates alongside a North American tour. Karman supports.
They are thrilled to be welcoming Etran de L’Aïr to Future Yard on 23rd August 2023.
A name that translates to “the Stars of the Aïr,” the mountainous, northern region of their home country of Niger, Etran are based in the town of Agadez, an urban centre renowned for the electric guitar and the Western named “desert blues.”
In the Sahara, the electric guitar genre is intertwined with social function, with Etran de L’Aïr standing apart from the crowd, playing in a pan-African style that is emblematic of their hometown, citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues, Hausa bar bands, to Congolese Soukous.
The trio join them this summer in support of their sophomore album, Agadez, recorded at home in the titular city, it’s an LP that invokes the desert metropolis, celebrating the sounds of all the dynamism of a hometown wedding.
They are thrilled to be hosting Honeyblood at Future Yard on Sunday 22nd October, as she embarks on her first solo tour of England and Wales.
With her armoury of hook-driven songs, singer, songwriter and guitarist Stina Tweeddale (aka Honeyblood), will be adapting her well-known guitar driven anthems for a more intimate setting in their live room.
They are thrilled to be welcoming Courtney Marie Andrews to Future Yard, kicking off the autumn months in Birkenhead in support of her 2022 album, Loose Future.
Born out of a summer of introspection spent on the shores of Cape Cod, Loose Future is a record of triumph, filled with songs exploring the feeling of letting love in, guided by harmonies and alternative percussion. It’s an album reminding us that taking the dip is what letting love in feels like. Sometimes you plunge, and sometimes you walk slowly in.
You can take the plunge with them on 1st September.
Future Yard are delighted to be playing host to We Are Scientists on 26th July, as the New York rock duo return to the UK.
WAS debuted in the early aughts with the angular post-punk edge of With Love And Squalor, later evolving to incorporate polished synths and expanded atmospherics on efforts like 2016’s Helter Seltzer, 2018’s Megaplex, and 2021’s Huffy.
Although modestly popular in America, they were a hit in the UK, where the group’s sound — part post-punk revival and part indie rock with a touch of 80s synth pop — drew parallels to contemporaries like Editors, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, and The Killers.
On 30th June they are thrilled to be welcoming POND-frontman Nicholas Allbrook to Future Yard as he tours the UK.
A Western Australian native and a highly-accomplished songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, painter and producer, since the beginning of his artistic career in 2005, Allbrook has brought community and collaboration to the forefront of his artistic method.
Whether it’s in the poignant lyricism of his solo musical endeavours or in the production style of his across POND’s discography, Allbrook shows a deep understanding of the human experience and the importance of art in modern society in his psych-tinged musical style.
He joins Future Yard in support of his new album Manganese, out on 9th June.
They are thrilled to be rounding off the summer months at Future Yard with the Merseyside return of Ex-Easter Island Head, in a very special, one-off, intimate in-the round show.
The show follows sell out headline dates throughout the UK this year and ahead of their appearance at Birmingham’s legendary Supersonic Festival. Pushing musical experimentation to its minimalist limits EEIH are a collective composing and performing music for solid body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments.
Primarily performing as a quartet, the group incorporates multiple electric guitars augmented through mechanical preparations and extended techniques to create works that explore group interplay, repetition and melodic invention through purposefully limited means.
They perform in the round at Future Yard on 31.08, allowing you the audience to get up close and personal to their free-flowing genius.