Event type: Performance

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:

James Adrian Brown – former Pulled Apart By Horses member and creator of electronic music with broken machines
Maddie Lara – Local songwriter and electronic music producer of ethereal and dreamy soundscapes
Jez Thelwell – Local electronic music producer of chilled electronica for late nights and early mornings

FRUIT SMOOTHIE

6:00pm
Got a craving for some Whose Line Is It Anyway style games, brought to you by everyday, fun-loving people from different parts of the northwest? Come in for some belly laughter, served extra fruity, extra sweet and extra fibrous by improv comedy troupe the Oickers!

The fourth wall won’t know what hit it, as audience suggestions are part of everything we make up–there will be singing, as an audience member will be serenaded, guessing games with the help of audience imagination. There will be a celebration of the wacky, pocketbook edition themes of life in all its hilarious banality!

See some crowd favourites, but also some Oicker originals–our Fruit Smoothie may not break any visionary records, but we have sweetness at our core, zest in our little steps, and a keen focus on what makes ordinary life extraordinary–so come and be a part of it for an hour!

 
The Team
Dave Hodgson

Iain Luke Jones

Liz Hardy

Michael Ananins

Sandra George

Sekki Tabasuares

Stuart Hughes

Wax + Gears feat. Stealing Sheep

WAX + GEARS RETURNS! Our pedal-powered, off-grid Music Carnival is back for 2025, and this time we’re welcoming along Stealing Sheep to headline!

WAX + GEARS, a one-day festival of emerging music, sustainable practice and climate activism, takes place in an off-grid, pedal-powered arena within our large outdoor garden space at Future Yard. Drawing together the ideas of music discovery, vinyl culture, cycling, DIY, analogue and with an eco-conscious aesthetic, Wax + Gears will be a platform based around community, collective enrichment and celebration.

Stealing Sheep are the Sugababes of our time, but with a unique twist — they play their own instruments, produce their own beats, and direct their own music videos. They are a power trio like no other, blending obscure musical innovation with visual art inspired by Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and the KLF.

The event will be completely off-grid, with all power generated by a bank of dynamo bikes adjacent to the stage. The audience will be encouraged to ‘keep the pedals turning so the records keep on spinning!’ throughout the day.

This year we’ll be joined by headliners Stealing Sheep, with Ruby Duff, Disco in Sochi, TIERNY, Clockwork Gibbons, Emily Baron + Dance 4 Plants DJs.

HERZ; the roots of the potato

8:oopm
HERZ is the encounter of a woman and her heart in the empty space.

Physical Fest are delighted to bring the hilarious and brilliant Spanish clown back to Liverpool after her fantastic performance a few years ago with this funny and moving show exploring the limits of freedom and love!

The encounter between her and her roots, the expectations and the facts, the ones who wait and the ones who arrive.

lnspired by the return of the hero in classic mythology, Madame Señorita has a teasing silliness that invites the audience to witness and take part in a playful  transformation where the ridiculous and the absurd blend with the tenderness of a failed character

Midsummer Manarchy | Unity Pride Series

7:30pm
Come and celebrate the summer solstice at Midsummer Manarchy, an evening of moustaches, mayhem and the Manarchy you’ve come to expect from the best Drag King talent that Merseyside has to offer.
The Kings of Merseyside are back, after their explosive first show at the Unity in March, the handsome chaps of Merseyside are back with a brand-new, gleefully irreverent, midsummer extravaganza.

The evening promises more gender euphoria than you can shake a supreme court judgement at. Come celebrate with us, as we bring an evening of gender defiance, transgender joie de vivre and non-binary brilliance, seasoned with a sprinkling of joy, and a dash of cheer, which, let’s face it, we could all do with more of!

The show begins at 7:30 PM, followed by a mixer event in the bar at 9:30 PM where you can meet the performers and celebrate with the community. Grab your tickets now!

 

Created in 2024 by performer Cal Phillips and Mooncup Theatre company, Merseyside Kings is a drag king collective that aims to highlight the often-overlooked genre of ‘Kings’ Drag culture.  
 
The Collective drives to support new kings, newcomers looking to experiment with drag, and is open to anyone with an interest in drag. We especially look to working with our trans siblings and those from the global majority.  

Queer Scratch Night | Unity Pride Series

7.30pm
Join us for a one-off night of sparkling new stories that imagine a better world through a queer lens.

Performed by local LGBTQIA artists trying out new work for the first time, this performance is developed with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse’s Nathan Powell and writer Luke Barnes (Cinderella).

 

“Heart-warmingly, proudly, queer.” Sydney Morning Herald⁠ on Roots’ Happy Meal

@rootstouring

 

Want to get involved? 

Are you a Merseyside-based LGBTQIA writer, creator or content maker looking for collaboration and a stage? Then we have an opportunity for you…

In Queer Scratch, rootstouring are inviting 8 theatremakers to create and perform their own short work at Unity Theatre, that imagines a better world through an LGBTQIA lens.

You’ll be working with Roots, Yorkshire’s award-winning queer theatre company, and will receive training from leading theatre makers in Liverpool, including writer Luke Barnes (Cinderella) and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse’s Nathan Powell.

Deadline to apply: May 30th 18:00

Performance at Unity Theatre: June 28th

Sign up via the link: https://www.rootstouring.com/queer-scratch-unity-call-out

 

 

Wet Dream with Jesus | Unity Pride Series

6pm

Louisiana; home of Mardi Gras, southern hospitality, and purity culture. This autobiographical comedy explores Alice’s teenage upbringing in the thick of America’s Bible Belt. Discover her LGBTQ+ identity and experience the South beyond it’s cowboy boots!

Hold your beers tight as Alice plays 20+ characters with more flavour than a boilin’ pot of gumbo. Expect chameleon-like storytelling as Alice recounts events so shocking you won’t believe they’re real! Always wondered if American high school is really like the movies? Don’t be shy now – How much can happen to one queer high schooler swimming through a flood of southern gossip?

 

16+

Test

 

 

Test

 

 

The Horne Section’s Hit Show

 

They have two series of their own Channel 4 TV show, an iTunes-chart-topping podcast and now they’re tuning up their instruments once more to tour the country: it’s the Horne Section’s Hit Show!  

“Britain’s Funniest Band” (The Guardian) have made appearances on The Last Leg (Channel 4), Peter Crouch’s Year- Late Euros (BBC One), they are Dictionary Corner regulars on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the only band to ever host Never Mind The Buzzcocks.  Separately, members of The Horne Section have performed with recording artists including Robbie Williams, Madness, Florence and the Machine, Amy Winehouse, George Ezra, Basement Jaxx, Disclosure and Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds.  

Unruly, ridiculous, and surprisingly satisfying, the six-headed comedy band includes five outstanding musicians and one non-musical stand-up. There’ll be comedy, songs, enthusiastic dancing, and a lot of mucking about. A brand-new show from the hugely talented band and Alex Horne, the creator and co-host of the BAFTA and National Comedy Award winning Taskmaster.  

 

Age guidance: 12+ (parental discretion advised) – U16s must be accompanied by an adult.This show may contain mild language and some adult references.

 

Hejira – Celebrating Joni Mitchell

Hejira is an outstanding 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late ‘70s. Having released the albums The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and Mingus, Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous musicians (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker, Jaco Pastorius and Don Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the much-lauded live album, Shadows And Light; it is from this work that the band Hejira is drawing the spirit and body of its repertoire.

Comprising highly experienced, world class musicians, Hejira is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who not only has – in her own way – assimilated the poise, power and beauty of Joni’s vocals, but also plays guitar with Joni’s stylistic mannerisms. Expect an evening of the ‘great’ songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue!