THE DSM IV // BABA ALI
+ WORKSTUFFFUTURE YARD + SOCIETY OF LOSERS PRESENTS
We welcome the return of both Baba Ali and The DSM IV to Future Yard as part of a double headliner on Saturday 26th April.
The ‘Electropunkdisco duo from NYC to LDN’, Baba Ali return to Birkenhead after a storming set in the pouring rain back at Future Now 2023, joining forces with Liverpool’s gothic alt-pop trio The DSM IV, back on the Left Bank for their first ever headline slot in support of their brand new EP ‘Negative Utopia‘ (out now!).
Workstuff supports.
Tickets on sale now.
FFO – Drab Majesty, Working Men’s Club, Suicide.
VENUE INFO
Future Yard is open every day from 10am – so you can stop by for a coffee or a pre-show drink in our bar area whenever you like! Our pizza kitchen is open on weekends and before every gig, 6 – 9pm.
The live room doors open at 7:30pm (this is separate from our bar area), and music starts at 7:45pm.
BABA ALI
Baba Ali is the combined force of American performer and musician Baba Doherty and British guitarist Nik Balchin, both based in London.
Within their first few years, the duo have worked with Jamie Hince (The Kills), Alex Epton and most recently Al Doyle (LCD Soundsystem / Hot Chip). For their 2023 album Laugh Like A Bomb, Baba Ali took to production duties themselves in Al Doyle’s London studio, and finished the final mixes with Sheffield producer Ross Orton (Working Men’s Club / M.I.A. / Arctic Monkeys). The album’s bold and fiery lead single Burn Me Out serves as a blueprint for what the duo call their ‘electro punk disco’ sound and was premiered by Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music. Baba Ali also performed the song for their live television debut on the legendary BBC show Later…with Jools Holland.
Onstage, Baba Ali is a captivating and seductive presence, transmitting a wall of sound that fills the room with an infectious raw energy and groove that makes standing still impossible.
THE DSM IV
Formed in Liverpool in 2018 by former Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster frontman Guy McKnight, THE DSM IV crystallise the ultra real and the otherworldly, bringing a focused hyperrealism to the party. Their convention-defying live performances toy with audience expectations and stimulate questions of the narratives being sold to us as news—or entertainment—all to the beat of the drum machinist.
As if pontificating from a lectern, McKnight sings and gesticulates like his life depends on it, his lyrics enticing or lacerating depending on the mood. In an age of perversion of reality, THE DSM IV poetically reflect on our world’s hypocrisies and dilemmas, with danceability, intelligence, indignation, grace & style—refreshing purity for these polluted times.
WORKSTUFF
‘…a suave set of debonair avant-garde pop, performed as if David Lynch had directed it himself’ – @9x9records
Abstract, confessional lyricism intertwined with psychedelic textures and trip-hop-inspired hypnotic ambience.
Hopeless-romantic-crooner B. Yafano (aka Workstuff) is joined by newly added live members Ruby Roadkill (Dead Animals) and George Buxey (Angel Spit) who add textural flourishes and banshee affirmations, accenting the electronics and words deliciously.
‘I am so lucky my luck will continue’