All the way from Long Beach, California, Chase Petra touch down in Birkenhead in autumn for a headline show they are thrilled to be hosting.
A band that exists out of pure necessity, within the project making music is not so much a choice, as an inherent and inextricable feature of each members’ life. The band is composed of a group of friends that often aim for adjectives like loud, unapologetic, and “sort of a lot.” Lately referred to as “an approachable American mess,” Chase Petra finds their sound sitting somewhere between Midwest emo (despite hailing from SoCal), early 2000s indie rock and pop punk.
Their songs’ subject matter runs the gamut, covering issues of social justice (i.e. sexism, classism), personal growing pains, and subjects of a more nefarious nature.
This autumn the team are thrilled to be welcoming psych-rockers The Warlocks to Future Yard.
Formed in 1999, L.A.-based group The Warlocks produce a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground. Led for the past twenty-plus years by Papa Warlock aka front man Bobby Hecksher, who´s backed by J.C. Rees (guitar, feedback), Earl V. Miller (guitar, drone machine), Christopher DiPino (bass), and Oscar Ruvalcaba (drums).
The Warlocks are back on the road again this year for a full-scale tour in support of ‘In Between Sad’, their new LP set to be released via Cleopatra Records in Sept 2023.
As the Eurovision Song Contest beckons, The Brain Charity is holding its own neurodiverse contribution to Liverpool’s Eurovision events calendar.
Join them for Neurovision – a live music event putting neurodiversity on the musical map – on Friday, 5th May 2023 at 7pm at the Carnival Brewing taproom in Liverpool city centre.
Tickets cost just £17.50 for a fantastic night of live entertainment – click here to buy yours now!
Their own neurodiverse version of the Eurovision Song Contest will feature special performances from a range of neurodivergent performers and will be headlined by a solo set from BANNERS.
Lead by local legendary singer/songwriter Mark Sebastian D’Lacey, this exciting new outfit pulls on Mark’s influences ranging from early American mountain music to 60’s Laurel Canyon, blues, jazz, gospel and soul, as well as Dylan, Cohen and Waits.
An incredible ensemble of musicians combine to bring you a superb show with fantastic original material that will stay in your heart for a very long time.
Jon Keats
Jon is a Director of the Cavern Club and also one of the resident artists here. He released his debut album“ Any Man Would do The Same” in November 2022 on Cavern Records. Despite his association with the venue that kick started the Beatles career, musically, his sound sits more within the Americana genre.
He will be playing tracks off the album as well as previewing his second offering, which he started recording on a recent trip to Memphis and Nashville, and will be completed here in Liverpool for a summer release.
April Moon
April Moon are Jaime April and Jason Moon – two musicians who moved to the UK from the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada, to write, record, and perform their songs in the genre of Canadiana (it’s like Americana but you have to keep your socks on!). Combining vocal harmonies, intertwined guitars and a thumping beat, April Moon sounds like a Fleetwood Mac got together with the Grateful Dead and wrote some tunes.
The pair released an album called “The Other One Was You” in November 2022 that takes a playful, sometimes darker look at life, love and honesty. The 12 songs paint a bright, vivid picture of the world surrounding these two Canadian wanderers.
Expect an afternoon of fun-folky music to tap your feet or get you up dancing in a Brewery venue- what better way to celebrate St George’s Day than having a few freshly brewed ales and a dance with friends!
It’s going to be an awesome afternoon of superb performances from Dandelion Charm, Milton Hide (who are coming all the way from Brighton to perform at this event) plus two local favourites The Folk Doctors and April Moon.
Please support live music and support an independent brewery.
It’s going to be a great afternoon of live performances!
The doors will open at 1pm
Ticket money pays for PA hire, Sound tech wages, printing and advertising costs and of course paying these lovely people to travel and perform for you!
There is the option to purchase a “premium” ticket which awards extra money to each band for each one purchased and also enables them to offer concession tickets and still meet all the costs involved. Thank you for your support AND for supporting a local venue and live performances.
San Francisco meets Birkenhead when Cindy heads to Future Yard this May.
They’re a band built around the singing and guitar playing of Karina Gill that she self-nurtured after finding an abandoned Squier Strat in her San Francisco apartment basement.
Her intrigue soon grew into the band that is now Cindy, a quintet who have found a worldwide following of their slow-moving, dream-pop world that shrouds Gill’s songs.
Future Yard really happy to be playing host to returning prog stars Lifesigns, who follow up their rescheduled show here in summer 2022 with another June headline show.
Lifesigns are an independent UK-based band of virtuoso professional musicians, whose members have track records playing with bands ranging from Asia and The Scorpions through to pop and jazz icons like Bonnie Tyler and Quincy Jones.
Their 2017 album Cardington got to number 4 in the UK indie chart without so much as a play on mainstream radio. The 2021 album Altitude was crowdfunded by our dedicated fans in 40 countries worldwide (including 36 US states) and has been compared to everything from Steely Dan to Pink Floyd.
Acclaimed international psych-twang guitarist Gitkin heads to Future Yard this September. With music that exists somewhere between primal, rootsy memory and distant exotic yearning.
Gitkin inhabits a dusty bordertown where the familiar blends imperceptibly into the enchantingly foreign. Reviews of Gitkin’s first two LP’s grappled with descriptors, tagging it vaguely as “cinematic” and comparing it favourably with Khruangbin.
True, the music is largely wordless, emotionally evocative, and guitar driven. But it possesses an alluring alchemy all its own. His third album ‘Nowhere To Go But Everywhere’ is out now.
Future Yard are thrilled to be hosting Atlanta’s own Algiers in Birkenhead on 12th May.
The genre-eclipsing, technicolour quartet join us in support of the February release of their fourth studio album ‘SHOOK‘, an LP stacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, with Algiers as a connecting bridge between worlds and sounds, SHOOK is a lightning rod for an elusive yet universal energy and feeling.
A plurality of voices; a spiritual and geographical homecoming; a strategy of communion in a burning world; the story of an end of a relationship; an Atlanta front porch summer party, all coming to Birkenhead this spring.
Support comes from Helen Ganya.
