San Francisco meets Birkenhead when Cindy heads to Future Yard this May.
They’re a band built around the singing and guitar playing of Karina Gill that she self-nurtured after finding an abandoned Squier Strat in her San Francisco apartment basement.
Her intrigue soon grew into the band that is now Cindy, a quintet who have found a worldwide following of their slow-moving, dream-pop world that shrouds Gill’s songs.
Future Yard really happy to be playing host to returning prog stars Lifesigns, who follow up their rescheduled show here in summer 2022 with another June headline show.
Lifesigns are an independent UK-based band of virtuoso professional musicians, whose members have track records playing with bands ranging from Asia and The Scorpions through to pop and jazz icons like Bonnie Tyler and Quincy Jones.
Their 2017 album Cardington got to number 4 in the UK indie chart without so much as a play on mainstream radio. The 2021 album Altitude was crowdfunded by our dedicated fans in 40 countries worldwide (including 36 US states) and has been compared to everything from Steely Dan to Pink Floyd.
Acclaimed international psych-twang guitarist Gitkin heads to Future Yard this September. With music that exists somewhere between primal, rootsy memory and distant exotic yearning.
Gitkin inhabits a dusty bordertown where the familiar blends imperceptibly into the enchantingly foreign. Reviews of Gitkin’s first two LP’s grappled with descriptors, tagging it vaguely as “cinematic” and comparing it favourably with Khruangbin.
True, the music is largely wordless, emotionally evocative, and guitar driven. But it possesses an alluring alchemy all its own. His third album ‘Nowhere To Go But Everywhere’ is out now.
Future Yard are welcoming Sydney native Jack Ladder to Birkenhead.
A singular character in Australian music, with a sardonic and sentimental sound, Jack Ladder (aka Tim Rodgers) brings his towering and tender baritone to bear on tales of beauty, love, hope and redemption.
A master of musical narrative, he conjures lyrics that celebrate the absurdity of the human condition in songs that groove in subtle ways.
Future Yard are thrilled to be hosting Atlanta’s own Algiers in Birkenhead on 12th May.
The genre-eclipsing, technicolour quartet join us in support of the February release of their fourth studio album ‘SHOOK‘, an LP stacked with guests spanning icons through to future stars, with Algiers as a connecting bridge between worlds and sounds, SHOOK is a lightning rod for an elusive yet universal energy and feeling.
A plurality of voices; a spiritual and geographical homecoming; a strategy of communion in a burning world; the story of an end of a relationship; an Atlanta front porch summer party, all coming to Birkenhead this spring.
Support comes from Helen Ganya.
System Exclusive come to Future Yard on Friday 22nd September, a Pasadena, California duo bearing an armful of mini synths and a pocketful of Tarantino-dusted riffs who make heart-throbbing, capital P pop punch with more than a hint of post-punk.
The group is made up of Ari Blaisdell (Lower Self, The Beat Offs) and Matt Jones (Male Gaze, Blasted Canyons) – Blaisdell’s vocals hearken back to open hearted 80s hitmakers unafraid to quaver in the name of love, buoyed by Jones’ laser-gridded synth concoctions and heavy hand on the ones and twos.
Their self-titled album was released in 2022 on Castle Face Records.
The team are delighted to welcome experimental ensemble Fenella to Future Yard, to headline their CRATE Market Summer special.
Fenella is the ambient pop project of British singer/songwriter Jane Weaver, along with her frequent collaborators Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah (both of Starless and Bible Black).
The group’s self-titled 2019 debut was composed as an alternate score for the 1981 Hungarian cult animation classic Fehérlófia, with the project’s second release, The Metallic Index, released in 2022 via Fire Records.
Arab Strap celebrate 25 years of their album ‘Philophobia‘ at Future Yard on 9th June…. quietly. Not wanting to live too long in the past, yet still wanting to mark the key birthday of their seminal album.
The Philophobia Undressed tour will feature the album in full, but straying away from the nostalgic decadence often found amongst album tours, will be performed by just the two core member of AS– Malcolm & Aidan with a guitar or two, some drum machines and probably a digital Mellotron – as the pair sing old songs about being young, in intimate surroundings and, in some cases, visiting towns they haven’t played in a long, long time.
On 4th September Future Yard welcome Avalanche Kaito to Birkenhead, a band built around the sonic collision between urban griot and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse (vocals, tama, peul flutes, mouth bow) and Brussels noise punk musicians Benjamin Chaval (drums, electronics) and Nico Gitto (guitar).
Through a twisting sequence of events, the trio eventually met and began developing the soundworld of ancestral proverbs and dadaist inspired technology culminating in a sound The Wire referred to as “freaked, juddering electronic punk”.
The trio mostly play Kaito’s compositions, each making sure to write their part very freely. At the end all compositions are collective. The griot handles proverbs. These are the pillars of wisdom. He can both murmur and harangue, while his intense flute solos come straight from a free jazz he never knew.
Nico brings this very rare quality of being both able to ensure the groove of a very uncommon rhythmic baritone guitar and develop sophisticated sound experiences. Benjamin plays his low-fi drums with two cut pieces of brush handle. Also he provides an important Pure Data electronic part partially controlled by triggers, a real fourth wheel to the coach.
Mellowtone have an upcoming show, taking place at SOTTO in Liverpool on Wednesday 12th April.
The concert will feature Serious Sam Barrett; a hard touring, folk and country singer from Yorkshire, playing honest, heartfelt self-penned and traditional songs on a 12 string guitar and banjo.
There’ll also be tracks from DJ Jonnie O’Hare, with Matt Jacobson as Mellowtone’s brand new compere.
More information can be found here – https://www.skiddle.com/