Event type: Music

Messy Grief: This One Goes Out to the One I Love

 

For Grief Awareness Week 2025, At The Library presents Messy Grief! A week of arts programming as part of Loved and Lost, a programme of work exploring grief, how we talk about it and how we live well with it.

This One Goes Out to the One I Love is a loud, cathartic evening of choir meets karaoke!

Wednesday 3rd December

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Crosby Library

Select a song to represent a loss close to your heart. Whether your grief is related to a death, a break up, a job loss, a piece of spectacularly bad news or something more private, we encourage you to select a dedicated well known karaoke song for your experience, and sing it out with a supportive crowd.

Don’t worry about being put on the spot or being any good at singing. When it is time for your selected karaoke song, we will read out your request and your dedication, before welcoming the full room of people to sing along all together as a group. You can choose to be completely anonymous, or if you’re feeling especially brave, you can take centre stage.

Visit our website to book your free place and when you sign up, let us know your karaoke song ahead of time.

*Please note* if you haven’t submitted a specific song we won’t be able to provide it on the day but others will be available to choose from.

 

 

Gig Panto – Hoodstock ’25

We are delighted to present the first ever Future Yard Gig Panto, in collaboration with Off The Ground Theatre!

The year is 2025, and Robin Hood and his Mersey Men are distant legends of musical folklore. Once upon a time, they tore up the stage at the legendary Hoodstock ’99 festival. Since then, however, the music world has become a miserable place. The evil Sheriff has created an AI songwriting supercomputer in order to monopolise the music industry, and banned ANY form of live music including Christmas choirs, football chants, ice cream vans and even the bells of Birkenhead Town Hall.

With the masses left in silent despair, the Sheriff decides to cash-in and announces a new mega-festival, featuring all the worst of his AI generated bands – No Direction, Charlie A.B.C, Just a Beaver, Sabrina Plasterer and David Guetta. Only Robin Hood can save live music from disappearing; but to do so, he’ll have to get the band back together and play the greatest set of all time…

Join Future Yard and Off The Ground Theatre this Christmas for festive hilarity and hijinks! This all-new Gig Panto for live music lovers will be an irreverent, alternative panto done gig-style in the Future Yard Live Room, complete with a full live band playing music by the likes of Talking Heads, The Zutons, CMAT, Fontaines D.C and Pulp, along with the best (and worst) Yuletide favourites!

There are eight showings of this Gig Panto during December, with shows on Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd, Wednesday 24th (matinée), Friday 26th (matinée), Sunday 28th, Monday 29th, Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st (matinée).

For evening shows, the performance starts promptly at 7.30pm. For matinée shows, the performance starts at 1.30pm. The venue is open beforehand, with our kitchen service open from 90 minutes before the performance, and throughout.

The show running time is 1hr 40mins – Act 1 45mins, 15 minute interval, Act 2 40mins.

Tickets: Adult – £17.50; Concessions – £12.50; Under-12s – £10; Family Ticket – £50
Concessions = Over-65s, 13-18s and unwaged; Family Ticket grants entry to 2 x Adults and 2x Under-12s/Concessions
Group bookings also available – see below for details.
THIS IS AN ALL STANDING SHOW
There are a limited number of seats available per show for accessibility requirements. For details on Future Yard’s accessibility see HERE; and to reserve a place please contact our Access Team.

Space at each show is limited to allow room for kids and some accessibility seating at the front.

Lack Of Afro

We’re delighted to welcome the funk and soul gold of Lack Of Afro to our stage, as he embarks on his largest UK tour.

Itching to retake the stage across the UK and Europe in his natural environment under the lights and wooing front rows, Lack Of Afro (Adam Gibbons) announces largest ever tour across the country later this year supporting a new LP of fresh material, once again promising a funk and soul spectacle full of style and sparkle.

Tickets on sale now.

Tender Claws + Friends Halloween Special

With a voice that shifts from velvet sonorous tones to banshee-like wails, Tender Claws lures you into her haunting world of alt rock songs inspired by gothic fiction and the darker sides of nature and the human condition.

Her fuzz-heavy, 90s-reminiscent sound comprises powerful grunge-influenced outbursts and softer episodes, scattered with serrated guitar and synth elements. Following the release of her most recent single, ‘Disappear’; and shows this year supporting Dog Race, Rosegarden Funeral Party and Bonnie Trash, she eagerly awaits her suitably spooky Halloween show with us.

FFO: QOTSA, PJ Harvey, Garbage, Nirvana, Chelsea Wolfe, Hole, The Mysterines, Curve, Smashing Pumpkins

Tender Claws will be joined by Tits Up, Terraces, and Playmate.

Tickets on sale now.

KATHRYN JOSEPH

We are thrilled to welcome Kathryn Joseph to Future Yard on Thursday 30th October, joining us this Autumn as she embarks on the fourth chapter of her career with new LP WE WERE MADE PREY out on 30th May on Rock Action Records.
Tickets on sale Friday 9th May at 9am.
Known for her fearless storytelling, raw emotional depth, and unflinching honesty, Kathryn Joseph has made a lasting mark on contemporary music. A relentless pursuit of truth runs through each of her albums, from the devastating beauty of bones you have thrown me and blood i’ve spilled (2015), which won the Scottish Album of the Year Award, to the grief-stricken intensity of from when i wake the want is (2018), and the haunting for you who are the wronged (2022), a powerful reckoning with abuse in all its forms.

Now with PREY, Kathryn explores the collision of want and loss, self-fulfilment and shame, embracing a newfound intensity—bigger, angrier, and full of want. Joining forces with Lomond Campbell, Kathryn’s delicate yet visceral sound continues to evolve, seamlessly blending intimate, unfiltered lyrics with rich, atmospheric layers of piano, keyboards, and electronic elements. Their long-standing collaboration has been instrumental in pushing her music into darker, more experimental territory, amplifying the raw emotional power at its core.

MOBIUS LOOP

Mobius Loop come to Future Yard on Sunday 9th November as part of their next performance adventure with the Peaceful World Tour.
The family folk-rebel band are heading out to the UK’s best grassroots music venues to bring their mesmerising festival vibrations indoors, launching their new music including the brand new single PEACEFUL WORLD.

The trio, celebrated as “Preston’s most successful band,” create gloriously eccentric folk stories, fusing world music and conscious rap with eruptions of free-form dance charged with an intimately powerful and intense energetic live performance.

Expect a night of ecstatic dancing, majestic melodies, epic beats and vibrant voices all woven together in this call for a peaceful world!

Support on the night comes from Liverpool’s Aimee Lea Frances, a songwriter who delves into spiritual topics in her heartfelt, emotional music.

DUB HQ – 9 Years of Dub Defenders

Celebrate 9 years of Dub Defenders with us at Future Yard as they present DUB HQ!

Expect the best of the best in Roots, Dub, Jungle & Bass from Merseyside’s favourite DJ duo.

Tickets on sale now.

SUNDAY (1994)

We are thrilled to host Sunday (1994) at Future Yard on Friday 7th November for a dose of vintage dream-pop perfect for the newly weds and the nearly deads.

BROTHERS MOVING

We are thrilled to host Brothers Moving at Future Yard on Thursday 6th November.
An energetic and captivating band known for their raw, acoustic-driven sound that blends elements of folk, blues, and rock, Brothers Moving are originally from Denmark, the band gained international attention through their spontaneous street performances, particularly ‘Minnie the Moocher’ in all it’s Kazoo-playing glory in New York City.

Expect a live performance that is a whirlwind of infectious rhythms, powerful vocals, and tight harmonies, often transforming public spaces into impromptu concert venues. The band’s ability to connect with audiences through their passionate and unfiltered performances makes each show a unique experience, filled with an authentic, heartfelt energy that resonates deeply with listeners.

Tickets on sale now.

Moolakii Club: Silent Film Soundtracks

Moolakii Club present an evening of avant-garde film and experimental electronic music, in what is fast becoming a must-attend event. The night consists of live soundtracks to obscure, surreal, groundbreaking early film, performed by electronic musicians in an immersive live setting.

Performers for the next event are:

Swansither
The Cottage Children
Mayassa