Future Yard are overjoyed to be playing host to one of the most arresting artists operating in the UK today. Alison Cotton is a viola player / vocalist based in London.
She spent almost the last two decades performing in bands – as well as her solo work, she is one half of the Walthamstow based band The Left Outsides – and collaborating with other musicians. As well as the viola, she uses an array of other instruments (her voice, harmonium, percussion, recorder, omnichord, shruti, piano etc) to create long, haunting folk drones.
2020’s Only Darkness Now LP was released to critical acclaim, and was followed up with a six-track album titled The Portrait You Painted Of Me on Rocket Recordings (and Feeding Tube in the USA). As with Alison’s previous solo albums, the touchstones of her immersive sound are viola, harmonium and voice, merged together to create a rich suite of songs.
Support on the night comes from Meilir and Fend (DJ set).
Head along for this special inaugural concert given by Liverpool Brass Band (formerly Formby Band).
The concert is held at St. Phillips Church, Litherland, 17 March, 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the church or by contacting:
Pat Martin – 051 922 4941 or Rev Andrew – 0151 928 4817
Georgian-British singer-songwriter and musician Katie Melua has announced her huge Love & Money UK tour, in support of her brand new album of the same name due to be released in spring 2023.
Katie will perform her classic hits including ‘Nine Million Bicycles’ and ‘The Closest Thing To Crazy’, plus songs from the new album.
In 2021, Katie released her album Acoustic Album No. 8 – the record was widely recognised whilst also scoring her eighth consecutive UK top 10 studio album. This summer she teamed up with violinist, composer, and Grammy award-winning sound engineer, Simon Goff for their collaborative album Aerial Objects.
Singer-songwriter Nano Stern is a Chilean artist riding the crest of the new wave of Chilean song, and has become a reference point for contemporary songwriting in South America.
His musical virtuosity, mesmerizing and charismatic live performances and his passionate and poetic advocacy for social justice result in a true and honest universal message. That’s delivered with an intense energy, youthful passion and exquisite musicality, dwelling deeply on tradition whilst being contemporary too.
‘Nano Stern is the best Chilean singer-songwriter of his generation, with his lyrics, melodies, message, humor and heart.’
Joan Baez
Cornwall indie-rockers Holiday Ghosts return to Future Yard on Wednesday 12th April, after superbly sound tracking the sunset in the garden at Future Now this past summer.
Future Yard urge you to listen to Holiday Ghosts, quit your corporate job, put your laptop in shredder, walk away, go outside, remember what the Clean, the Go Betweens and the Modern Lovers once promised you: a life cracked open with fresh new possibilities.
Three songwriters revel in lyrics descended down from Ray Davies’ 3rd person tales of landlords, bathing suits, shopping malls and the northstreet air. Based in Brighton via Falmouth on the south coast of England, Holiday Ghosts conjur the airy fun of Richard Brautigan if he had a band and was from England and wasn’t a hippie or a beatnick and he didn’t wear those big hats or have that mustache and his name wasn’t Richard, or Brautigan, and he wasn’t a writer or an artist of any kind.
Holiday Ghosts, not like Richard Brautigan at all really.
Welcome to Harperspace. Future Yard are thrilled to be welcoming acclaimed guitarist Nick Harper onto their stage this autumn.
2023 is the year that sees Nick Harper jettison his normally aspirated time machine which clocks in at just 60 minutes per hour, for a model that can appear anywhere at any time in the many portals of Harperspace.
Back with a new, uniquely styled, acoustically driven album (release tbc) and tour, Nick explores the past, present and future over the soundwaves in his own singular way.
Future Yard are thrilled to be welcoming Mara Simpson on 29th April.
A Stroud-based composer and songwriter, Mara paints a beautifully rich soundscape through her solo work and collaborations with artists (including Poppy Ackroyd, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Hidden Orchestra, Cerys Matthews), setting the scene as she takes her audience on a journey with her, through the beauty of every day to the magic of remarkable.
This time they’re swinging! The Readers are back with more tracks from the Great American song book, as well as a selection of tracks made famous by the legendary partnership of two more jazz and swing legends, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.
Presented as part of the Carnegie Hall Concert series; celebrating The Old Library’s Historic link to one of New York Cities cultural powerhouses . As one of the thousands of Andrew Carnegie Libraries across the UK, Europe and the United States they are excited to be piloting this exciting programme of work that looks at the cultural significance of the iconic concerts that have filled the hall – whilst also allowing those artists and their specialisms to inform their wider body of work – from concerts and events to community music workshops.
This pilot concert is presented with support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
What your ticket gets you…
Purchasing a ticket to this event gets you a comfy seat in their stunningly restored 20th Century Reading Room for this live music performance.
What your ticket gives back…
Your ticket allows Lister Steps to continue their broader community work within L13 and the wider community of Old Swan and beyond. As a registered charity they rely on a mixture of public and private donations to continue their vital work.
If you would like to support them further, whether that be as a cash donation or by volunteering time with them, head to their website or email at hello@tol.org.uk.
Scottish band Vistas play Birkenhead on Saturday 13th May as part of their 2023 UK tour.
Consisting of vocalist Prentice Robertson, guitarist Dylan Rush and bassist Jamie Law , they trio have made their name gigging tirelessly across the UK, with word of mouth praise of their chaotic, life-affirming show travelling far and wide.
Backed up by a host of bright, anthemic singles including ‘Retrospect’, ‘Calm’ and ‘Tigerblood’ and racking up over 100 million plays for songs released in the last three years, Vistas have been garnering support from the likes of Jack Saunders, Clara Amfo and Huw Stephens at Radio 1. After two critically acclaimed Top 40 albums, the band have certified their status as one of the most promising indie bands in the UK.
Future Yard will be welcoming the mighty Gilla Band to play a headline show in May.
While the Dublin four-piece’s cataclysmic sound avoids consignment to any singular genre, the thrusting noise-rock guitars, heavy techno drum beats and wailing vocals paired with frontman Dara Kiely’s witty, mundane and often surrealist lyrics create “as perfect an expression of rock’n’roll’s essential auto-destructive impulse as this writer’s ever heard” (The Guardian).
The noisy Dublin quartet are firm Future Yard favourites, with tracks from their three Rough Trade-released regularly featuring on the FY stereo. Trailblazers for modern Irish alternative music and known for their ferocious live shows which have been described as chaotic, electrifying and “genuinely dangerous, like one last rave before the apocalypse”, Gilla Band are not just a band, but a force.
