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.