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.
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.
