System Exclusive come to Future Yard on Friday 22nd September, a Pasadena, California duo bearing an armful of mini synths and a pocketful of Tarantino-dusted riffs who make heart-throbbing, capital P pop punch with more than a hint of post-punk.
The group is made up of Ari Blaisdell (Lower Self, The Beat Offs) and Matt Jones (Male Gaze, Blasted Canyons) – Blaisdell’s vocals hearken back to open hearted 80s hitmakers unafraid to quaver in the name of love, buoyed by Jones’ laser-gridded synth concoctions and heavy hand on the ones and twos.
Their self-titled album was released in 2022 on Castle Face Records.
The team are delighted to welcome experimental ensemble Fenella to Future Yard, to headline their CRATE Market Summer special.
Fenella is the ambient pop project of British singer/songwriter Jane Weaver, along with her frequent collaborators Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah (both of Starless and Bible Black).
The group’s self-titled 2019 debut was composed as an alternate score for the 1981 Hungarian cult animation classic Fehérlófia, with the project’s second release, The Metallic Index, released in 2022 via Fire Records.
Arab Strap celebrate 25 years of their album ‘Philophobia‘ at Future Yard on 9th June…. quietly. Not wanting to live too long in the past, yet still wanting to mark the key birthday of their seminal album.
The Philophobia Undressed tour will feature the album in full, but straying away from the nostalgic decadence often found amongst album tours, will be performed by just the two core member of AS– Malcolm & Aidan with a guitar or two, some drum machines and probably a digital Mellotron – as the pair sing old songs about being young, in intimate surroundings and, in some cases, visiting towns they haven’t played in a long, long time.
On 4th September Future Yard welcome Avalanche Kaito to Birkenhead, a band built around the sonic collision between urban griot and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse (vocals, tama, peul flutes, mouth bow) and Brussels noise punk musicians Benjamin Chaval (drums, electronics) and Nico Gitto (guitar).
Through a twisting sequence of events, the trio eventually met and began developing the soundworld of ancestral proverbs and dadaist inspired technology culminating in a sound The Wire referred to as “freaked, juddering electronic punk”.
The trio mostly play Kaito’s compositions, each making sure to write their part very freely. At the end all compositions are collective. The griot handles proverbs. These are the pillars of wisdom. He can both murmur and harangue, while his intense flute solos come straight from a free jazz he never knew.
Nico brings this very rare quality of being both able to ensure the groove of a very uncommon rhythmic baritone guitar and develop sophisticated sound experiences. Benjamin plays his low-fi drums with two cut pieces of brush handle. Also he provides an important Pure Data electronic part partially controlled by triggers, a real fourth wheel to the coach.
Mellowtone have an upcoming show, taking place at SOTTO in Liverpool on Wednesday 12th April.
The concert will feature Serious Sam Barrett; a hard touring, folk and country singer from Yorkshire, playing honest, heartfelt self-penned and traditional songs on a 12 string guitar and banjo.
There’ll also be tracks from DJ Jonnie O’Hare, with Matt Jacobson as Mellowtone’s brand new compere.
More information can be found here – https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liverpool/SOTTO/Mellowtone-at-Sotto/36279784/
Halcyon Syncopators are a group of like-minded South Liverpool musicians, who love playing big-band dance music from the 1930s.
The group are playing a special Syncopating into Spring show at Sefton Park Cricket Club, 14 April, 8pm. Tickets cost just £5.
See here for tickets.
Society of Losers bring a legend of British music to Future Yard, songwriter Frances McKee of The Vaselines.
The band who Kurt Cobain was quoted as calling “my favourite songwriters in the whole world”, The Vaselines were originally comprised of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee and had a career spanning three decades and were signed to lofty labels such as Sub Pop and Rough Trade.
The group were part of the alternative jangle pop scene that was born in Scotland then spread its influence across the world. Frances released her own solo LP Sunny Moon in 2006 and was also a member of Suckle.
Future Yard are hyped to be welcoming influential Detroit hip hop dons Slum Village to Future Yard in April 2023.
Original member T3 is joined by Grammy-nominated producer Young RJ in holding down the legacy of this legendary outfit which spawned a new style of hip hop and launched the career of J Dilla.
Chances are, if you are anywhere near the Detroit music scene, you have heard of the influential hip hop trio that makes up Slum Village.
The group was founded in the early 90s by three childhood friends: Baatin, T3, rapper and producer J Dilla, who all grew up together in the Conant Gardens neighborhood of Detroit, MI.
A huge electronic music showcase with no less than five ground-breaking artists is coming to The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on Saturday 22nd April.
Ian Boddy’s Tone Science label, a spin-off from DiN Records, is bringing Scanner (Robin Rimbaud), Ian Boddy, Polypores, Nigel Mullaney, Field Lines Cartographer and music from La Monte Young to the city in what promises to be a spectacular showcase.
For lovers of electronic music and all things synth, this event is not to be missed, as some of the most talented artists of the genre are coming together for this ‘mini-festival’. The extended-length Tone Science Concert will feature sets from some of the most creative and ground-breaking musicians in the field.
Cream-pop from the Devonshire coast. Future Yard are thrilled to be welcoming Pale Blue Eyes to Future Yard on Thursday 1st June.
A young electro-modernist guitar group with horizon-wide pop and compelling rhythms built on the great German kosmische Musik and alt-rock sounds at their most artful.
They join the venue in Birkenhead this summer off the back of the the release of their debut album Souvenirs last year, released via Full Time Hobby.
