Future Yard are delighted to welcome two Belgian prog-metal titans to Birkenhead as they unite for the Serpent And Colossus tour.
April 2025 will mark an electrifying chapter for progressive metal fans as two of Belgium’s most prominent heavy music acts, Hippotraktor and Cobra The Impaler, join forces for the highly anticipated Serpent And Colossus UK Tour. This dynamic co-headlining tour promises a sonic experience of crushing riffs, intricate melodies, and visceral energy that will captivate audiences across the United Kingdom.
Hippotraktor have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with, blending technical prowess with an emotive depth that resonates deeply with fans of modern progressive music. Their live performances are a tour de force, delivering complex compositions with precision and raw power. In addition, they have performed at the prestigious Arctangent Festival for two consecutive years, further solidifying their reputation as a premier act in the progressive metal scene.
Cobra The Impaler, known for their high-energy shows and unique blend of thrash-inspired riffs and epic vocal arrangements, continue to ascend in the global metal scene. Following the success of their 2024 tour supporting Katatonia, and ballbreaking performances at Arctangent and Bloodstock, Cobra The Impaler are set to solidify their status as one of Europe’s rising stars in heavy music.
The Serpent And Colossus tour represents a significant milestone for both bands, showcasing the depth and innovation within Belgium’s vibrant progressive metal scene. Fans can expect a seamless blend of styles, where the distinctive sounds of each band complement and amplify the other’s intensity.
Girls of the Internet’s manifesto is clear; to create dance music that calls back to how it was made at its inception, but with the knowledge and experience of the past 50 years of the genre. Joining the dots that have not been joined for a long time, the collective takes on people of all sexualities, gender expressions and body types. “We are very proud to bring this music back to its inclusive roots. Let’s forget the disjointed and cliquey scene we live in, and bring back what once united us.”
Finding their musical home in revered label Classic Music Company, set up by Luke Solomon and Derrick Carter, releasing alongside the likes of Honey Dijon, Floorplan, Seven Davis Jr., Isolée, and the mythical Spencer Kincy aka. Gemini; Girls of the Internet released their latest album ‘When I Lost, I Found Myself‘ in July 2024. With Tom bringing together acclaimed British vocalists and songwriters, previous singles from the project ‘Affirmations’ written by Sophie Faith, and ‘Never Ever Ever’ featuring shiv and Oscar Jerome, demonstrate the innate musicality of the project, with the intention, “to create beautiful songs within a ‘dance’ or ‘house’ framework.”
Crafting songs with real musicians, the group’s name was inspired by Ladies of the 80’s by Eighties Ladies, the album from a girl group produced by Roy Ayers, “I just loved the whole concept, and I wanted to do the same thing with Girls of the Internet,” explains the group’s founding member Tom Kerridge. “I wanted a name that played with gender, and people’s subconscious misogyny. Girls of the Internet is abstract – it means nothing, and it means everything.”
James Alexander Bright supports.
The D.A.M. Trio—Dennis Davis, Carlos Alomar, and George Murray—played a crucial role in shaping David Bowie’s most experimental works. Alomar, a teenage guitar prodigy, began performing at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, collaborating with legends like Chuck Berry and James Brown. His life changed in 1974 when he met Bowie, leading to co-writing the hit “Fame” alongside John Lennon and establishing a creative partnership that spanned from ‘Young Americans’ to the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ and even 2003’s ‘Reality’.
Future Yard are thrilled to team up with Luma Creations to bring Francisco, El Hombre to Birkenhead on Friday 25th April.
Known for their genre-blending style that mixes Brazilian traditions, Afro-Latin rhythms, psychedelic punk-rock, and electro-punk, Francisco, el Hombre’s performances are an explosive spectacle.
Taking their name from a character in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Francisco, el Hombre is celebrated for their dynamic fusion of Mexican and Brazilian influences. The band, featuring Mexicans Mateo and Sebastián Piracés-Ugarte and Brazilians Juliana Strassacapa, Andrei Kozyreff, and Helena Papini, delivers socially charged music, addressing issues like gender violence in their Grammy-nominated anthem, “Triste, louca ou má.”
They join us in April as part of their Hasta el Final tour, celebrating their tenth anniversary on the road with us before an anticipated hiatus.
A triple headliner of deliciously contemporary DIY punk and alt rock, featuring CHROMA, Currls, and BERRIES, to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025.
The Fernweh take over Future Yard on Friday 7th March for a night of their very own patented blend of psych-folk rock n roll, playing their eponymous debut album for us live.
The distinctly English, coal-fired translation of the acid-soaked culture of creatively liberated, seventies America, a world of The Magic Roundabout, Anne Briggs, Fairport Convention’s ‘Liege and Leaf’ and Tales of the Unexpected, has left an indelible mark on the psyche and, therefore, the lustrous songwriting of The Fernweh. It is a sound of delicate vocal harmony, slinking organ, manic guitar solos and grounded, kitchen-sink-drama imagery, as revealed in their debut single, The Liar – released on Skeleton Key Records back in the heady days of January 2018.
After a decade or more of playing as able ‘side-men’ to some of Liverpool’s most renowned musical exports, Jamie Backhouse (guitars), Ned Crowther (vocals and guitar) and Oz Murphy (keys/saxophone) gathered together to make the album they always knew they could make, based on a pure and profound love for a golden era for British and US folk rock.
Paul Molloy + Edgar Jones support.
AGMP Concerts and MVT Cohorts presents Laurence Jones at Future Yard on Saturday 8th March.
Labelled “The next Eric Clapton” by Buddy Guy, Laurence Jones, the multi-award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter born in Liverpool, released his 8th studio album ‘Bad Luck & The Blues’ in 2023 which charted #1 in The Official Jazz & Blues Charts in The UK. Hailed “The future of the blues” as Classic Rock Magazine aptly puts it! With his impressive prize cabinet of awards and a place in the British Blues Hall Of Fame, he’s one of the UK’s greatest guitarists.
Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra supports.
Future Yard are proud to team up with long-time collaborators Events471 to present Navigation Festival.
Across two stages, Events471 turns Argyle Street into an all-day alternative haven of music and spoken word performance offering something truly unique for anyone who enjoys stepping outside the mainstream.
Headlined by the returning Nuha Ruby Ra, The Orchestra (For Now) and Bread Hotel also perform, with more musical artists still TBA.
Additionally, born from the much-loved Wordsmithery night, this event showcases some of their favourite local songwriters and poets, blending local talent with nationally acclaimed artists across two unique stages.
Liverpool’s premiere ‘in the round’ style songwriter showcase and music networking event comes to Birkenhead on Tuesday 18th March.
3 artists are set to join them to perform and discuss their music on the night, all TBA.
Danny & The Champions Of The World perform at Future Yard on Sunday 23rd March 2025.
Bringing with them an expansive rock and soul sound, akin to the likes of The War on Drugs dipped in Bluegrass and delivered in the titular’s Danny raspy, yearning vocals, they join us in spring in support of their brand new album, ‘You Are Not A Stranger Here‘ (out now).
Their seventh studio release and first since 2017’s ‘Brilliant Light,’ ‘You Are Not A Stranger Here’ is the sound of a band exploring new and surprising musical terrain.
The old contradiction that in creating something intensely personal, you can share something inspiringly universal, is at the heart of a remarkable new album by Danny & the Champions of the World. ‘You Are Not A Stranger Here’ is a formidable body of work that dates back to 2007. It’s full of brilliantly cohesive performances that come together to reach a new creative peak, founded on the most reflective and deep-seated lyrics to date by frontman Danny George Wilson.
It’s an intricate and beguiling tapestry of highly-crafted sounds by a band at the top of their game and a songwriter on an honest and unpretentious quest for some truth. If that sounds potentially dark and doom-laden, the results are anything but, on a record that’s deeply relatable, infectious and moving.
