This July Future Yard are thrilled to be hosting Aussie Punks Vintage Crop, bringing through their doors a sound that incorporates jerky post-punk elements into their muddy garage rock, to galvanizing effect.
Forming in 2012, just below Melbourne, in the bay city of Geelong; Vintage Crop are next in the long line of exciting rock bands to come from Australia. Their style of slicing guitar music has pushed the band to the fore of the Melbourne circuit, and established them as one of the talents surging to the surface of Australia’s impressive music scene.
The band released their first album (TV Organs) in 2017 & haven’t relented since, releasing a total of 4 albums in 6 years moving from muddy, garage rock to post-punk. Their latest work “Kibitzer” showcases their signature tight guitar licks and robust rhythm section.
Teaming up again with iconic record labels Anti- Fade (AUS) & Upset The Rhythm (UK), “Kibitzer” is the band sounding truer to form than ever. They steer their sound any which way they feel like it – and they’ll be bringing it to Future Yard this summer.
Future Yard has announced their August bank holiday weekender, Future Now, taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th August 2022.
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.
The lineup includes headliners Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (Saturday) and Snapped Ankles (Friday). The shamanic Snapped Ankles have to be seen to be believed, a high-wire, multi-media live act whose Teutonic forest rhythms are shot through with post-punk lightning. A truly unique, communal experience. Pigsx7 are a riff-driven, primal juggernaut of a group, whose Sabbathian and Melvinsian sound knows no bounds. Both are joined by a stellar group of acts who are some of Future Yard’s favourite current artists on the circuit – Cola, Dehd, bdrmm, Taraka, M(h)aol, with more special guests, DJs and extra bits still to be announced.
Future now 2022 Lineup so far:
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Snapped Ankles
+ Cola
+ Dehd
+ bdrmm
+ Taraka
+ Eades
+ Holiday Ghosts
+ Porchlight
+ M(h)aol
+ Tokky Horror + Friends
PLUS Dog Sport + Kristrún + Hank Bee + Bill Nickson + Broken Down Golf Cart + Nudist
+ Stardog Glove Box + Dreampark + Lynskey + Kjaerra + Memori + Gadzooks!
Dynamic Liverpool outfit The Mono LPs follow up their support performance at Future Yard in April with a full, no-punches-pulled headline show on Friday 1st July. The quartet’s rootsy rock’n’roll is amplified by Vicky Reid’s cello, which allows frontman/guitarist Ste Reid, bassist Chris Barlow and drummer Tom McCabe to swirl around with aplomb.
The Mono LPs released their latest album Shuffle/Play via Fretsore Records in 2021, but were unable to gig it live due to the Covid-19 restrictions. This show will be the first live performance of the album, making it a proper celebration. And the show will double up as the launch party for new single You Say which will be released on the day. All makes for a pretty exciting Friday night at Future Yard. Support on the night comes from Motel Sundown and Paul Nazole.
Frederiks is proud to present Jazz Fest. A three day event showcasing the best and most exciting Jazz bands in the city.
Tuesday: 8 PM Till Late
Wednesday: 8 PM Till Late
Thursday: 4 PM Till Late
Get ready to get your groove on and celebrate the Jubilee, Frederiks style.
Frederiks has also announced that they will have Jazz on live every Wednesday commencing from the 1st June.
For all booking enquiries head to the Frederiks website.
Salt The Snail are playing a live show in a wrestling ring.
What do you mean you want more information? That’s all there is to it.
Salt The Snail are bringing a wrestling ring in to the Future Yard live room and will play a live gig in the ring, while you stand around and watch and clap and wave your ‘Wildcard 3:16’ placards. There will be commentators. It will be a Friday night at the end of May. You will pay £10 and you will have lots of fun. Somebody will take the belt home and will receive all the glory; lots of people will leave crying.
The Utopia Strong, the self-professed ‘semi-modular trio, delivering medical grade music to the visionary music head’, come to town on 4th June to bring their experimental and revelatory improvised live sessions to the Merseyside masses.
The psych prog collective – comprising Kavus Torabi, Mike York and seven-time world snooker champion Steve Davis – are set to release their second LP, International Treasure, via Rocket Recordings in June. The show also features a live performance from fearless Manchester-based noise collective Holy Scum, an offshoot of Gnod.
Twenty years ago a group of musicians from the North West came together to form a big band. Since then, Dr Jazz and the Cheshire Cats have given acclaimed performances across the country.
Directed by the University of Liverpool’s own Professor Catherine Tackley, the band brings a programme of classic swing with a British twist to The Tung Auditorium. Expect to hear the swinging sounds of Ted Heath and Jack Hylton alongside numbers from Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
Manchester Collective and soprano Ruby Hughes present a set of ethereal music for voice and string orchestra.
Listeners will be transported to a world of incredible fragility and exquisite beauty – from Britten’s sparkling Les Illuminations to vigorous, life-affirming music by Olli Mustonen. At the heart of this programme is a new song cycle from Edmund Finnis featuring poetry by Alice Oswald.
My Iris is an intense and thrilling band that represents the front rank of the contemporary UK jazz scene.
Lauded for her imaginative approach to improvisation and composition, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression, delivering driving grooves and lingering melodic lines, seamlessly morphing between earthy restlessness and futuristic dreamscapes.
Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, pianist and cellist.
She has a phenomenal mastery for seamlessly crossing the boundaries of classical, jazz, reggae, soul and R&B, to imprint her unique musical signature with her virtuosic tap, strum and bow with her cello into her sound and vibe.
As a performer of extraordinary versatility, Ayanna’s live shows are intimate journeys that chronicle her experience as a female artist in the 21st century. Due to her musical prowess, mesmerising vocals, non-compromising lyrics, and ability to deftly reinterpret songs on the cello.
