WIRRAL MET @ FUTURE YARD
Future Yard is a music and community venue home to everything from international gigs, to rehearsal studios, to a sunny garden for you to come and hang out in.
We are excited to offer Wirral Met students a range of free gig tickets every month, discounts on food and drink, and more. Plus, we’re only down the road from Wirral Met’s campuses – find out how to get here. Get your exclusive free tickets to the below shows this month! To redeem tickets, click on ‘FREE TICKETS’ below each show, then click ‘buy tickets’. Click ‘Enter Promotion Code’ and enter the code below to unlock Wirral Met Student free tickets. You may redeem up to 2 tickets per student per show, which will be sent to you as e-tickets.
FFO = For Fans Of. Use this to get an idea what kind of music an artist plays.
This page is updated each month.
WHELLIGAN 21.02
Future Yard is excited to welcome Whelligan for the launch of their second album In Pursuit of Inchoate Visions of Beauty. The album is full of memories and characters associated with being an unemployed musician growing up in Birkenhead. Jobcentre chat, glorious wasted hours by the waterside. The could’ve-beens, the might’ve-beens, the has-beens, the never-weres. The dreams, the reality, the hopelessness, the humour and the tenderness which was shared by so many in a town that was slowly but surely being forgotten.
FFO: Grandaddy, The Smiths, Love
6pm doors
Expected capacity: 80 (29%)
JAGUAR SKILLS 27.02
The legendary Jaguar Skills returns!
Taking his never less than deft chopping hand on a journey through his own mind, spinning an insane mix of DnB/house/jungle/garage/techno/hip-hop in a crazy fast-paced event playing over 600 bangers in 120 minutes, with huge drops and surprises at every turn.
Jaguar Skills give the audience tiktok-able moments non-stop through 120 minutes of collected chaos catering to Gen Z. hip- hop heads, Techno gurners… hell, even your Nan would rave to this set!
The ADHD tour showcases how high neurodivergence can fly, by doing it all… this isn’t just another cliche genre bound event, this is Jaguar Skills, and at his very best.
FFO: Any and all good rave music
7:30pm doors
Expected capacity: 180 (64%)
GREEN GARDENS 11.03
Future Yard welcome Green Gardens, a Leeds based indie-rock band. Their music is defined by their love for sweet melodies, lo-fi-guitars and warm drums. Their songs balance tenderness and extremity, reflecting on loss and relishing within the euphoria of passing joys.
We’re looking forward to hosting Green Gardens, off the back of their second release Thistlesifting. Written in private with limited resources, then realised as a collective, the band transform their honest, warm songwriting into something carnal and tactile. Plugged straight in with no room to breathe. Through a series of evolving masses and dynamics, the songs act as anchors amongst waves of colour and static.
FFO: Black Country, New Road, The National, TV Priest
7:30pm doors
Expected capacity: 80 (29%)
SMOTE 15.03
We are excited to welcome Smote on their spring tour, off the back of their latest album release, Songs From The Free House.
Rooted in the mud, hills and folklore of the North, Smote is the atmospheric, heavy-leaning project of landscape gardener Daniel Foggin. Drawing on drone, psych, folk tradition and the raw power of electronics, the music feels both ancient and sharply present.
Smote’s live shows have built a quiet but loyal reputation for their slow-building intensity: ritualistic, hypnotic and deeply grounded. Expect repetition that pulls you under, waves of amplification, and atmospheric intensity.
FFO: GOAT, Hey Collosus, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7:30pm doors
Expected capacity: 80 (29%)
MAE STEPHENS 25.03
We are thrilled to present Mae Stephens at Future Yard on Wednesday 25 March 2026 as part of her UK tour. The 22 year-old singer songwriter is a rising UK pop star. Her 2023 breakout hit, ‘If We Ever Breakup’ sparked her trajectory as a pop newcomer, earning her a place on the Top 15 UK singles.
Expect to hear colourful funky pop with an instantly recognisable voice.
FFO: Megahn Trainor, Anne-Marie, Sabrina Carpenter
7:30pm doors
Expected capacity: 80 (29%)
TTSSFU 27.03
Tasmin Stephens has always dreamt of creating something untouchable. Even before reaching her teens, she’d begun to fall hard for the mythical icons of generations past; people who transcended the reality she saw around her, growing up in hometown Wigan, a suburb of Manchester. Rather than boybands or modern pop idols, Stephens became bewitched by Blondie and Lou Reed, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. By the time she started writing songs and making her first sketchy attempts at recording them, aged 14, she already knew there was nothing else that she was going to do.
FFO: NewDad, Just Mustard, Wolf Alice
7:30pm doors
Expected capacity: 180 (64%)
SARATHY KORWAR 28.03
Milap brings the bold new sound world of Indian percussionist, composer and producer Sarathy Korwar to Future Yard on Saturday 28th March.
In this live performance, Sarathy presents music from his upcoming album There Is Beauty, There Already – a striking, percussion-led exploration of rhythm, voice and electronics. Blending hypnotic, trance-like drum patterns with South Asian temple procession rituals, jazz percussion, and contemporary minimalism, this is futuristic folk at its most immersive.
A standout voice in the UK jazz scene, Korwar is known for fusing jazz, electronics, and Indian influences with themes of decoloniality, community and transcendence. His music has earned critical acclaim worldwide, with collaborations ranging from Anoushka Shankar to Shabaka Hutchings and praise from The Guardian, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone.
FFO: Ishmael Ensemble, Sons of Kemet, Gilles Peterson
7pm doors
Expected capacity: 150 (54%)
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10% OFF FOOD AND DRINK
Wirral Met students and staff can enjoy 10% off all food and drink at Future Yard – just show your Wirral Met ID card at the bar.
Our bar is open from 10am-late, 7 days a week, serving brilliant coffee to have in or take away, soft drinks, local beers and more. Our kitchen also serves fresh Neapolitan-style pizza.