BIRKENHEAD venue Future Yard is hosting its annual celebration of the best emerging music this weekend, headed up by two of the strangest (and noisiest) bands you could wish to see.
Last year’s Future Now event doubled up as a moving-in party for the opening of Future Yard at 75 Argyle Street as the team welcomed a huge crowd to see Gruff Rhys, James Righton, Nuha Ruby Ra, PVA, Folly Group and loads more in the new community venue.
2022 will now see Snapped Ankles headlining Friday’s line-up with Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs leading the bill on Saturday.
One of many thrillingly heavy UK acts to find a home on the consistently brilliant Rocket Recordings label, Pigsx7 make even the gnarliest noise-mongers stand back in awe. Viscerals, the quintet’s third proper album, is an enormous leap forward in confidence, adventure and sheer intensity even from their 2018 breakthrough King of Cowards.
The mysterious London-based post-punk band Snapped Ankles formed in 2011, pairing electronic music with vintage analogue percussion synths, which they strapped to logs, and began to perform in vegetation-aping ghillie suits, creating a 21st century pagan vibe that has been wowing gig-goers ever since.
Future Yard’s Chris Torpey is looking forward to a brilliant weekend.
“Future Now is our chance to celebrate the music makers who are on the rise and ready to break out,” said Torpey. “It’s the spirit of discovery that keeps us motivated, and we know that is shared by lots of you music lovers, too. Just like when Black Country, New Road, Squid, Dry Cleaning, Stella Donnelly, Willie J Heale and Pottery descended on our festival in 2019, Birkenhead is the place to be to discover the best new sounds.
“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.”
Future Now is at Future Yard, 75 Argyle Street, Birkenhead on Friday, August 26 and Saturday, August 27. Tickets from futureyard.org
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