As part of 20th year celebrations, The Unthanks scale back for some intimate shows, supporting today’s best small venues and including memorable ones from their early days. We are thrilled to welcome them to Future Yard on Thursday 13th November, with a set drawing from all parts of their rich repertoire.
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We are thrilled to bring Ríoghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet to Future Yard on Wednesday 12th November as part of The Heads, Hearts and Hooves Tour, a bold and celebratory chapter in the journey of one of the most electrifying and genre-defying live acts performing today, carrying their signature blend of protest soul, twisted folk, deep groove and joyful abandon.
CKY return to the UK for their first headline tour on these shores in five years, with their raucous, skate-punk sound having morphed into a rock ‘n’ roll that’s altogether more muscular, raw and authentic.
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Counter Culture presents XGENERATIONX at Future Yard on Wednesday 19th November, featuring Mark Laff (Generation X), Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) and Elizabeth Westwood (Westworld).
Legendary punk musician and Generation X drummer Mark Laff is set to makes an electrifying comeback in 2025 with his new project, XGENERATIONX, performing the songs of Generation X that he played such a key role in creating with Billy Idol.
Mark Laff looking forward to the tour commented: “For those who kept the faith, I promise not to disappoint with this new exciting line up. I feel it’s important that XGENERATIONX bring new life to the iconic songs from the 1st and 2nd Generation X albums.”
XGENERATIONX is poised to capture the spirit of Generation X and its songs while pushing the boundaries of their sound in exciting new directions.
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Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch, has just completed work on a brand-new album — a sticky, shimmering swirl of sound and slime (both metaphorical and literal). To celebrate, he’s embarking on a series of special solo shows, previewing songs from the forthcoming release. These intimate performances will see Lynch in raw, exploratory mode, armed with an acoustic guitar, a sampler, and a warped imagination — expect tenderness, weirdness, and a generous dollop of goo.
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Kantos Chamber Choir are back at Future Yard on Sunday 16th November with The Witch Trials.
A mirror to our callous hearts.
The infamous stories of the trials, torture and execution of witches are surely just abominable tales of a bygone era? Yet, with each and every unspeakable act we witness in the modern world, perhaps the Witch Trials tell us just as much about human nature today.
Music and spoken word sit alongside one another, offering an immersive reflection on the Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612. The programme gives us all a chance to grieve the senseless loss of life and confront some heavy truths while hearing some of the actual texts from the trials of 1612.
Featuring Camden Reeves’ haunting ‘Spells, Remedies & Potions’ – “think Black Sabbath and Metallica but for sopranos” – alongside music by Allegri, Byrd, Hildegard, Wainwright Johnston, and an arrangement of a 17th-Century Barbara Strozzi song by Ellie Slorach, this performance takes you on a captivating journey to a dark past and back again.
Doors open 4:30pm. Performance starts 5pm.
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We are excited to announce Liverpool’s own alright (okay) will be taking to Future Yard on Saturday 15th November to celebrate the release of their anticipated debut EP, ‘decent (fine)’.
Always a little off-kilter, always on the edge, alright (okay)’s live sets have become word-of-mouth essentials on the underground circuit. With a sound that fuses alt-rock, post-punk and noise-pop with a scrappy, self aware charm, alright (okay) have quietly built a cult following – supporting acts like Do Nothing, TV Priest and Alien Chicks, appearing at festivals including FOCUS Wales, Stockton Calling and Future Yard’s own Future Now Festival.
The EP’s fuzz soaked lead single ‘Good Friend (He Was)’ is a buzzing, emotionally raw tribute to a childhood pet – thick with fuzz, pounding drums and a steadily building sense of catharsis. It’s the first taste of things to come for the band in 2025, and captures everything the band do best: intensity, honesty, and a weird amount of heart.
With a hand selected lineup of the band’s favourite artists, alright (okay) and friends is sure to be something special.
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Du Blonde comes to Future Yard!
The audacious alter ego of multi-instrumentalist, producer, and visual artist Beth Jeans Houghton comes to Birkenhead on Friday 14th November – a Newcastle-born creative whose trajectory has taken her from folk-rock curiosity to full-throttle alt-rock juggernaut as Du Blonde, a firebrand persona defined by snarling punk edges, fuzz-drenched guitars, and a fierce do-it-yourself ethos.
Her latest album, 2024’s Sniff More Gritty, sees Du Blonde pushing her sound to newfound extremes, layering explosive riffs and searing vocals into an eclectic collage of punk ferocity and power-pop hooks. Capturing the chaotic spirit of a live performance, the record veers from unbridled aggression to disarming vulnerability—a testament to her unwillingness to be fenced in by genre lines or industry norms.
Celebrated for her raw, cathartic live shows, she leaves audiences enthralled by her commanding stage presence and unvarnished passion. For fans and newcomers alike, Du Blonde stands as a symbol of creative reinvention and unflinching authenticity in modern alt-rock—an artist who refuses to play by anyone else’s rule.
We are thrilled to present Westside Cowboy at Future Yard on Tuesday 25th November.
Westside Cowboy sound new but seem to come from an old place. Surrounded by 1978 Fender Twin Reverbs, well-thumbed Wem catalogues, a four-track recorder and spools of cassette tape. With a sound raw as a carpet burn, they ride a thrilling lo-fi boxcar tuned to the melodic precision of Teenage Fanclub and held together with the slacker cool of Pavement.
For most bands this would be enough, but not for Westside Cowboy. Just when you think you have them pinned, they career the entire thing into a brick wall of country, trad and early harmony coated, major-key rock’n’roll. They call this process ‘Britainicana’. A portmanteau of the band’s own making to describe American culture digested by English people in small towns with almost nothing in the way of cosmopolitan sheen. “Think kids in double denim and Converse eating Greggs vegan sausage rolls.”
It’s alarming and exhilarating in equal measures and marks them out as a band perpetually on the verge of losing control but having too good a time to notice the smoke screaming out from under the wheels.
After winning Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition and with a tour schedule set to take in a host of the finest festivals around, we can’t wait to welcome them to Birkenhead later this year.
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We are thrilled to present cosmic rock pioneers Ozric Tentacles at Future Yard on Monday 24th November.
A band from another time, Ozric Tentacles served as the bridge from 70s cosmic rock to the organic dance and festival culture that came back into fashion during the 90s. The creative vision of multi-instrumentalist Ed Wynne, the Ozrics’ uniquely trippy soundscapes have connected fans of progressive rock, psychedelia and dance music culture since forming during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983 and going on to become psychedelic staples at Glastonbury and other festivals for 4+ decades.
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