Event type: Music

Future Yard are thrilled to bring Liturgy to Birkenhead on Tuesday 20th August, the project of Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, whose yearning, energetic “transcendental black metal” exists in the space between metal, experimental, classical music and sacred ritual.

Celebrated for their fusion of sincere emotion, compositional complexity, stylistic daring and intense live energy, the band is simultaneously a medium and platform for drama and theology. Their 6th album, 93696, was released last year.

Liturgy was founded in the context of Brooklyn DIY as a solo project by Hunt-Hendrix in 2005 while she was studying philosophy and classical composition at Columbia. In 2009 Hunt-Hendrix stimulated fervent conversation in the music world with her text “Transcendental Black Metal”, and after expanding to a quartet they made waves globally with their 2011 sophomore album Aesthethica for fusing black metal with math rock and infusing the form with a counterintuitively loving, emotional energy.

Their ambitious 2015 album The Ark Work was controversial for its incorporation of IDM and trap production into their musical language. In fall 2019 they solidified this sound world with their highly acclaimed fourth studio album H.A.Q.Q., which is tied to an ongoing philosophical YouTube lecture series. Their fifth studio album, an opera entitled Origin of the Alimonies, was released in November 2020, recorded with an eight-piece chamber ensemble and performed at Roadburn festival in 2021 as the live score to an eponymous film created by Hunt-Hendrix. After a solo sculpture exhibition in 2022, the album 93696 was released in 2023 followed by an extensive world tour.

Join Bluecoat this April for an evening of special live music and dance performances from Ka Baird, Rosie Terry Toogood & Dialect and Ancient Plastix.

Doors and bar open from 7pm
Music starts from 8pm

The alias of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Lee, Mutual Benefit blends folk, psychedelic pop, and experimental recording techniques into fragile, hopeful songs that evoke the work of Sufjan Stevens , The Microphones and The Antlers.

He joins us in support of his fourth studio album ‘Growing at the Edges’, a multi-layered, expansive piece investigating wider musical possibilities then ever before, inviting the listener to go beyond prescribed paths through songs about interior change, onto reckonings with how to live in a volatile world and find meaning.

Support comes from the beautifully moonstruck, virtuosic future-folk of Odetta Hartman and the wistfully introspective and evergreen alt-folk of Euan Blackman.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, 6 acts will be diving in Future Yard (Birkenhead) Saturday 9th March. All profits to domestic abuse charity SAFENET.

Lineup

The Facades – Sky Valley Mistress – The Sewer Cats – Wax-Tree-Cast – Carleigh Mack – Issy Sutcliffe

Indie, Indie-pop, Indie-Rock, Punk, something for everyone.

This Feeling started life as a monthly club night in London 15 years ago and has organically become the UK’s number one promoter of emerging acts, with nights showcasing new artists in over 42 cities and stages at major festivals. With their ears to the ground when it comes to discovering the latest music, This Feeling has become the place to hear the best new indie bands first.

Bands who played early shows with This Feeling include Catfish and the Bottlemen, Blossoms, The Struts, Easy Life, Anteros, Black Honey, Inhaler, Red Rum Club and more.

“If you’re going to see the emergence of a new great band you’ll see them at This Feeling first” Carl Barat

This month at Liverpool’s EBGBs you can catch rising stars, about-faces, SYLLO, Korova and Tom Collins.