Prog legend Neal Morse joins us at Future Yard on Sunday 28th June 2026.
A founding member of Spock’s Beard, he later went on to form Transatlantic with Dream Theater’s co-founder and drummer Mike Portnoy, the Flower Kings’ Roine Stolt, and Marillion’s Pete Trewavas. He also later formed Yellow Matter Custard, Flying Colors, and the Neal Morse Band alongside Portnoy.
The Absolute Solo shows offer a truly unique live experience showcasing his stunning musicianship on piano and acoustic guitar, featuring songs from all phases of his career with no fixed setlist and spontaneous song choices.
No two evenings are the same. Each show is shaped by the atmosphere of the room and the connection with the audience!
You can expect to hear classics from the Spock’s Beard era, highlights from Transatlantic & Flying Colors, as well as fan favorites from his solo catalogue that retain the epic and spiritual compositions in intimate arrangements alongside rarely performed and surprise selections.
These concerts showcase the essence of Neal Morse’s songwriting — emotional, virtuosic, and deeply personal.
Tickets on sale Friday 20th March @ 10am.
Please note, this is a seated show.
Shez Raja and Guthrie Govan unite once again and return to Future Yard on Friday 24th July 2026!
Voted one of the “Hottest Bass Players in the World” by Bass Player magazine, Shez Raja is a boundary-pushing bassist and electrifying performer who has drawn comparisons to Jaco Pastorius. Playing a fusion of Indo-jazz, funk and groove, he has collaborated with icons including Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Wayne Krantz and Trilok Gurtu.
Joining Shez is visionary guitarist Guthrie Govan, famed for his virtuosic technique and work with Hans Zimmer. Guthrie has been voted “Guitarist of the Year” by Guitarist magazine, graced the covers of Guitar Player and Guitar World and has earned his place as guitar royalty on the world stage.
Completing this stellar line-up are long-time collaborators Chris Jerome (Courtney Pine) on keyboards and Sophie Alloway – dubbed the ‘Goddess of Groove’ by Jazz FM – on drums.
Events471 alongside Brainnest Collective have organised a charity fundraiser on 7th June at Future Yard to support a child living with Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare, inherited, progressive neurodegenerative disease causing nervous system damage,
All money raised will go through Tree of Hope. They help families fund medical care that is not available through the NHS. They also support families with fundraising, planning, and ongoing guidance.
LOKUSTGRIND, Binder, Veve, Paper Hats, Twisted Circus, and Domestic Partners are playing and donating their time to this event
Tickets are £10.
You can give more if you want.
No one will be turned away if they cannot pay.
Ak’chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory “rituals”, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.
Authors of around fifteen cassettes, three vinyl LP’s, several cryptic VHS videos and their reels have generated millions of views. They tour frequently and have performed major festivals on both sides of the Atlantic garnering press from VICE, Consequence, The Wire, and many more.
Connor Selby is a young UK songwriter with a sound rooted in blues, soul and folk. His music is shaped by real experience. It’s direct and personal, often dealing with identity, mental health and the feeling of not quite fitting in.
His latest work, The Truth Comes Out Eventually, leans into that honesty. The songs reflect on growing up, relationships and trying to understand your place in the world. Nothing feels forced. It’s all written from instinct.
Selby has built a strong reputation over the past few years. His 2023 self titled album was named Blues Album of the Year by MOJO Magazine and has picked up millions of streams. He’s had support from BBC Radio 2 and toured across the UK and Europe.
On stage, he keeps things simple. No theatrics. Just a tight band and a focus on the songs. He’s shared stages with major names, including a performance at Wembley with The Who, but the approach stays the same whether it’s a large crowd or a smaller room.
Jim Pearson and Scaredycats returns to Future Yard on 15th January 2027 for a rare fully seated hometown show celebrating 10 years of the Scaredycats album Dumb Animals. Scaredycats have always done things their own way. Since forming on the Wirral in 2015, the band built an audience with music filled with offbeat observations on online shopping, pointless conflict, dogs, disappointment and trying to find some meaning in the noise. Now, a decade on from the release of Dumb Animals, Jim Pearson comes back to the Wirral for a special performance with Scaredycats. With the band rarely playing live, and Jim now based away from Merseyside, this is set to be a wonderful Wirral reunion. Featuring Jim Pearson on vocals and guitar, Steve Wale on vocals and bass, and Neil Dutton on drums.
Support comes from long-time collaborators Igloo Hearts who will be presenting their true mastery of vocal harmonies and instrumentation – delivered with outstanding musical sensitivity, to powerful effect’
We also have a massive treat in a solo set from the one and only Steve Wale, returning to live music after a considerable time away.
Jonathon Linaberry looks back on Radio Waves, his sixth album as The Bones Of J.R. Jones, but there’s more than just nostalgia at play.
Recorded with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), the collection is moody and hypnotic, drawing on the sonic landscape of Linaberry’s youth as it reckons with the doubt and uncertainty of adulthood. The arrangements are entrancing, built on the tension between acoustic instruments and retro synthesizers, and Linaberry’s performances are raw and visceral, at times aching in their vulnerability. Put it all together and you’ve got a poignant exploration of memory and longing delivered by a relentless searcher, a revelatory work of personal reflection rooted in the endless beauty, pain, and chaos of growing up.
Born in central New York, Linaberry got his start playing in punk bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax. He launched The Bones of J.R. Jones in 2012 and began releasing a series of albums and EPs that would land his songs in films and TV shows like True Detective, Suits, and Daredevil, and lead to countless tours across the US and Europe, including stops everywhere from Telluride Blues to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Along the way, Linaberry would also share bills with the likes of The Wallflowers, G. Love, and The Devil Makes Three, soundtrack an Amazon commercial helmed by Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi, and earn praise from Billboard, American Songwriter, Under the Radar, and more.
Mike Viola. You probably already know him .. producer, songwriter, the kind of musician your favourite musicians quietly obsess over. Decades in, and somehow he keeps finding new generations to infect. Since 2019, he’s been on a proper run .. The American Egypt, Godmuffin, Paul McCarthy .. all cut at his LA home studio, Barebones.
Sold out US shows, a whole new fanbase, the usual. Then September 2024 brought Rock of Boston, recorded on half-inch tape over the winter of 2023, with Jake Sinclair on bass and Brendon Urie (Panic! At The Disco) on drums. Viola wrote most of the album on a Panic! At The Disco tour bus, between soundcheck and showtime, sneaking into whatever local studio he could find on his days off. When the tour ended, he and the band just carried on playing, no gap, no breath, just straight from hockey arenas into the tape machine, which might explain why the riffs feel bigger!
On Friday 13th November 2026, he brings that, and more, to Future Yard. No hyperbole necessary. Get involved!
Future Yard present Liverpool’s own – The Cubical. The band spent the better part of the last decade building up an incredible reputation as one of Europe’s finest underground bands. We’re excited to have them in the live room off the back of their acclaimed fifth studio album ‘Cut Me like a Hog” on Folc Records.
The Cubical sound is one that is essentially based in the blues, but like Captain Beefheart, Zappa and Tom Waits before them they twist it around, shake it up and inevitably end up with something altogether a little weirder. A Cubical live performance has been likened to a “rock n roll medicine show,” an assault on the senses…
Future Yard are excited to present Rebel Dread Rockers with DJ sets from Don Letts + Andy Smith (ex Portishead). Rebel Dread Rockers is a DJ project fronted by Don Letts and Andy Smith, celebrating the roots and evolution of soundsystem culture.
Don Letts is a London cultural icon, DJ and filmmaker who helped bridge punk, reggae and dub in the UK, while Andy Smith is a renowned DJ and producer, best known as a former member of Portishead and for his genre-spanning sets. Together, Rebel Dread Rockers deliver high-energy selections rooted in reggae, dub, funk, soul, punk and bass music, with a strong political and cultural edge.
