Gather in the main hall for this fantastic performance by the Port Sunlight Orchestra. Their seasonal favourites concert will include a selection of Christmas melodies including Sleigh Ride, as well as popular tunes including the Mission Impossible theme, highlights from Mary Poppins and the Skaters’ Waltz.
Port Sunlight Orchestra was formed around 1900 and is one of the village’s oldest institutions. The orchestra played at the opening ceremony of the Lady Lever Art Gallery in 1922 and have presented regular Sunday afternoon concerts there ever since.
They’re thrilled to be bringing their Independent Venue Week 2024 to a close with CVC at Future Yard on Sunday 4th February 2024, the psych-pop collective channelling 60s California via rural Wales.
CVC, or Church Village Collective in full, draw from influences as far and wide as Snoop Dogg, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Super Furry Animals & Red Hot Chili Peppers and are comprised of singer Francesco Orsi, bassist Ben Thorne, drummer Tom Fry, keyboardist Daniel ‘Nanial’ Jones and singing guitarists David Bassey and Elliot Bradfield. Their ‘Welsh Music Prize’ Nominated debut album ‘Get Real‘ was released at the start of 2023 to universal critical acclaim:
“A cracking debut album of feelgood, uber-retro gems” – NME.
“A remarkably fully formed debut” – The Times.
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Spanish superstars Hinds perform at Future Yard on Friday 2nd February 2024.
They’ll be bringing their effortlessly catchy garage rock anthems to Birkenhead via Madrid as part of their bumper Independent Venue Week ’24 line-up.
¡Vamos!
Happy Auld Lang Syne Day! Join them for their annual New Year’s Hogmanay as they bid farewell to 2023 and welcome in 2024 with a massive gig and party. Don’t bother with queues or Jools Holland or extortionate taxis home, get your NYE boxed off in Birkenhead.
They’ve got some incredible live performances for this final show of the year – Eyesore & The Jinx lead the way, bringing a shuffling, fidgety punk to a stage that they know well. Smallman Bigcar are also returning after lighting up the stage last New Year’s Eve – it wouldn’t be the same without them.
Joining them are emerging Liverpool post-punk trio So Reverie, alternative folk/indie artist (and FY fave) All Maudra, and the up and coming stars Korova. They’ll also have tunes served up by a Lesser Version + Friends DJs all night, to keep the music flowing from doors up to the magical midnight hour and beyond.
Doors open at 7pm, kitchen serving fresh pizza til 9pm and the bar is open til 2am. Tickets on sale now. A limited number of discounted earlybird tickets are available for the first few ticket buyers, so jump to it!
Zion Train bring their Abassi Hi Power Sound System to Future Yard once again in December. After rocking the yard once before with the loudest sound system to ever grace this side of the water The legendary British dub ensemble are preparing to shake our very foundations.
Bringing their hugely influential and innovative sound for a party until the early hours, they’ll be joined on the night by Lo Tone Soundsystem & the Dub Defenders.
Limited Early Bird tickets on sale now.
Future Yard are getting amped up to host something out of the ordinary in the run-up to Christmas! Nuggets Live: An Adventure Through The First Psychedelic Era.
This live show is dedicated to the iconic 60s garage/psych compilation, played LIVE in its entirety by Edgar Jones (The Stairs) and very special guests. Including a guest DJ set from Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen).
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American psychedelic and garage rock singles that were released during the mid-to-late 1960s. It was created by Lenny Kaye, a writer and clerk at the Village Oldies record shop in New York. He would later become the lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group. Kaye produced Nuggets under the supervision of Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman. It was released in 1972 with liner notes by Kaye that contained one of the first uses of the term “punk rock“.
Featuring standout classics from The Electric Prunes, The Standells, Count Five, The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators, Nuggets spawned a slew of similar compilations (Pebbles, Rubble) and soon became a fixture in the bags of DJs on both sides of the Atlantic.
On 15th December they are beyond thrilled to be welcoming MEMORIALS to Future Yard, the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire, Better Corners, It Hugs Back, UUUU).
As a duo these multi-instrumentalists are set to cover plenty of ground on stage, juggling instruments in a set up resembling that of a 5-piece band. Their sound touches on the many points for which they are known, veering from melodic song writing to psychedelic noise, free jazz freakouts, tape loops and drones, and then back again. Their debut double album – Music For Film: Tramps! & Women Against The Bomb – is out now via The state51 Conspiracy label.
Support on the night comes from Transmission Towers + Tender Claws. Tickets on sale now.
They are thrilled to be welcoming Scouse legends SPACE to Birkenhead for two shows in December as they celebrate 25 years as a band. Playing hits from their classic albums Spiders, Tin Planet and more these Britpop heavyweights are not to be missed.
Due to huge demand this event has now become a two night residency with more tickets having been added for the second show on Saturday 9th December with the Friday 8th December show now sold-out.
With support from Visa Anxiety (Friday) an up and coming high energy band with a big future and Headfeeder (Saturday) a four piece from New Brighton. Tickets on sale now.
They’re delighted to be welcoming back The Clause to Future Yard on Saturday 2nd December, after a storming set at Birkenhead Live this summer, the group turn their talents inside this time round as they play a headline show on their Live Room stage to kick-off the winter months.
Having released their debut ep ‘Pop Culture’ this year the band promise an energetic live performance with support from the Facades a four piece from Wigan and The Lags a heavy hitting hard rock/Indie band. Don’t miss out!
DJ Yoda is a multi-award-winning hip-hop DJ and producer, headlining festivals and clubs around the world. No typical club DJ, his interests lie in finding fresh and unique ways to bring turntables out of the club and getting involved in bespoke collaborations.
Working with classical composers to neuroscientists; brass bands to film directors; Dr Dre to Dame Evelyn Glennie; Banksy to Mark Ronson; BBC Radio 4 to the BFI, he reinvigorates his craft with wry invention and humorous intent.
Internationally respected for his turntablism, the viral success of his Stranger Things Mix racked up more than a half million plays on Soundcloud, culminating in his UK Tour of Stranger Things The Mixtape Live. He was Dr Dre’s first choice to record a guest mix on his inaugural Beats 1 show for Apple Music in 2015, and was one of a select band of artists to perform at Banksy’s pop-up Bemusement Park, Dismaland. His eclectic series of How to Cut & Paste mixtapes offer a uniquely British take on hip-hop music and culture.
