Event type: Music

BIRKENHEAD LIVE – NEW OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES

They’re delighted to be welcoming alternative indie-soul trio Skinny Living to Future Yard this summer, as part of a series of outdoor shows in their Garden performance space.

Skinny Living’s story is one of struggle, troubling situations and relentless hard graft. It’s also one of synchronicity, chance meetings, and the unflinching belief that their glorious indie soul music will reach the audience it deserves. Their potential is clear to see. Echoing Bill Withers, The Isley Brothers and Paolo Nutini, their songs shimmer with a timeless, gentle beauty, exquisite vocal harmonies and a lyrical wisdom that inspires optimism and reflection in equal measure.

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COSMIC CAPE AND PROPELLER PRESENTS

On Saturday 22nd July they are thrilled to be hosting the official Cosmic Cape pre-party, ‘Road to Cosmic Cape‘ at Future Yard, getting you ready for the festival two weeks later down in Capenhurst.

It’s set to be a showcase of some of the best rising stars the North-West has to offer and a Propeller showcase of the highest order, with Cosmic Cape alumni Fiona Lennon headlining, backed by her four-piece band, plus sets from singer-songwriter Christy Bellis and the pop-punk sounds of Kerry Feeney.

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Andy Bell of pioneering shoegazers RIDE is parking his Space Station in low Earth orbit to take the GLOK-mobile for a spin to a Future Yard on 14th October, as part of his UK autumn tour.

GLOKtober offers a rare chance to see Andy performing live as his electronic alter ego, where he brilliantly weaves together throbbing dubbed-out acid, levitational psychedelia, Balearic, ambient, techno, Kosmische, shoegaze, art-rock and Compass Point-style post punk, with his virtuoso guitar playing and musicianship to the fore.

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They are thrilled to be welcoming acclaimed artist, composer, producer and broadcaster Hannah Peel to Future Yard on Thursday 28th September, as she performs her Mercury Music Prize shortlisted album, Fir Wave, for them in Birkenhead.

An artist that navigates synthesisers, electronics, classical orchestral work, hand punched music boxes and unique sound world compositions, with this 2021 LP Hannah explores a sonic shimmer of textures and pulses that switches between raw atmospheric edges and environments you can soon enjoy in the comfort of our live room.

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CROSSTOWN PROMOTIONS PRESENT

Future Yard are thrilled to be be hosting Mozart Estate at Future Yard on Friday 6th October, as Crosstown Concerts brings him to Birkenhead in support of his brand new album ‘Pop Up! Ker-Ching! And The Possibilities Of Modern Shipping!’.

An expansive 16 track LP to match its title (which also rhymes by the way), with it Lawrence and the band have moved away from the idea of Mozart as a B-side band and has created a full- blown full-length pop masterpiece. It’s a compellingly relevant collection that resonates with potent ammunition, firing straight into the heart of 2023. And you can experience live with us in just a matter of months.

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Future Yard are thrilled to be hosting Lorelle Meets The Obsolete at Future Yard on 21st September.

The Mexican duo come to Birkenhead in support of their sixth studio album Datura, set to be released on 16th June via Sonic Cathedral.

It’s a short, sharp shock of a record with no unnecessary adornments and no fat on any of its eight songs. Gone are the psychedelic wig-outs found on previous releases, now replaced with bass-heavy post-punk grooves inspired by the roots of The Congos, the no wave of Ike Yard, the industrial hip-hop of Dälek and the dark modular moves of Hiro Kone – all while harnessing the elemental power of Jon Hassell’s Vernal Equinox. A pure sonic fusion sure to be perfect for the live arena.

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AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY WEEKENDER

Future Yard are incredibly excited to be hosting their August bank holiday weekender again, on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th August 2023. Future Now is their annual celebration of the best emerging new music, which also marks the anniversary of the festival that launched Future Yard in 2019.

Following on from headliners Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Snapped Ankles shaking the foundations last year, they’re excited to share news of this year’s line-up with you. Returning heroes The Bug Club and BODEGA are our headliners for 2023, both having played packed out shows here on Argyle Street in 2022.

This year they’ll be expanding things a bit more using our outside space as they bring you the biggest Future Now Weekender yet! Their third annual FN kicks off on Friday with the nuanced songcraft and understated candour of Christian Lee Hutson‘s soul-searching desert folk, the indie-rock rapturous highs of Amsterdam’s much-beloved Personal Trainer, Leeds’ post-punkers Treeboy & Arc sophomore Future Yard appearance after helping welcome in the New Year this past December, plus the much anticipated return of Wirral’s own Seal Cub Clubbing Club, returning to the live arena with their patented wry wit wrapped up in a folk/post-punk blanket after over a decade away; all before a headline set from ultimate FY favourites The Bug Club.

Prior to BODEGA‘s Saturday headline set to close the show, there’ll be a thunderous return for Bo Ningen, playing Birkenhead for the second summer in row, Baba Ali‘s continued journey into the world of electro punk disco, with one foot firmly in the dancefloor and the other in a frenzy, avant-garde eclecticism courtesy of Butch Kassidy, a cocktail of off-kilter sound mixed in a cauldron of perplexity from Heartworms, Spielmann‘s perimeter-skirting alt-pop and Tapir!‘s masked madness fuelled by folkish charm and ambient melodia. Phew.

And, as always with Future Now, they’ll be highlighting a plethora of wildly talented artists that make up the bustling local scene across both festival days, with Poppy Shrimpton, Shefu and our very own Katie Mac now added to the Friday line-up, plus A Lesser Version, Bill Nickson, Coughin Vicars, Louie Miles and Things Happen Fast playing on Saturday.

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Future Yard are thrilled to be welcoming the Romford-born, Nashville-made sounds of Spencer Cullum on the Future Yard stage on Thursday 17th August, as he presents his Coin Collection in Birkenhead along with Erin Rae and Sean Thompson.

They join the venue this summer in support of Callum’s Coin Collection 2 (released in April via Full Time Hobby), a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting. It’s an album that refuses to wear its influences on it sleeve, maintaining the beautifully sun-kissed, English country garden, bees-buzzing-round-lager atmosphere of Callum’s first Coin Collection LP, but much more complicated, weirder and far deeper.

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BIRKENHEAD LIVE – NEW OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES

Future Yard are overjoyed to be welcoming the raucous Lottery Winners to Future Yard this summer, as part of a series of outdoor shows in our Garden performance space.

The mob from Leigh have been flying since they started releasing music a few years ago, famously being signed by the late Seymour Stein at Liverpool Sound City. As well as building a reputation as one of the UK’s best live indie-pop acts, the four-piece have been working on the album Anxiety Replacement Therapy, which has seen them collaborate with Boy George, Shaun Ryder and Frank Turner.

Also performing on the day are Andrew Cushin and Columbia, with the scouse-tinged indie-rock sounds of The Kairos now joining the billing on the left bank fresh off their sell-out Liverpool headline show at Hangar 34, plus The Chase (NOT the game show) will be bringing a whole host of cultural influences to Argyle Street with their ska-rock sounds.

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BIRKENHEAD LIVE – NEW OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES

Future Yard are made up to be welcoming Wrexham’s indie-pop heavyweights The Royston Club to Future Yard this summer, as part of a series of outdoor shows in our Garden performance space.

Despite only being active for two years, the young four-piece have already completed two UK headline tours totalling 30 dates, and have been tipped by Gigwise as “the new band from Wales most likely to do a Catfish”. They’ve amassed almost 10 million streams on Spotify alone, and were among the first acts to be announced for SXSW in Texas last year. 2023 and will be showcasing at festivals such as Sound City, Y Not and Neighbourhood over the summer.

Also performing on the day are Rianne Downey, Calum Bowie, The Clause, Sterling Press and Keyside.

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