LAUNCH PARTY: FUTURE NOW

Future Yard’s premier event returns home for 3 nights across August Bank Holiday 2025.

Friday 22nd’s Launch Party will play host to an eclectic ensemble of local, national and international artists kicking off a weekend bringing the future of music to the Left Bank once again.

Anna Erhard, Adult DVD and Home Counties are all set to perform in a variety of volume, with steel. also making their Future Now return.

Individual day tickets available now. A limited number of discounted Friday + Saturday and Friday + Sunday Future Now bundle tickets are available.  

The Berlin-based, Swiss-born singer released her highly anticipated third album Botanical Garden in September 2024 and was celebrated by the press throughout Europe. In the UK, BBC 6Music supported the singer with heavy rotation airplay.

Her songs, somewhere between the spirit of Kurt Vile and early Beck, are an eclectic mix of distorted guitars and lo-fi keyboards. With characteristic nonchalance, Anna Erhard performs mischievous lyrics, setting her everyday life and her wanderings to music.

When disenchantment runs high, when city life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — when you’re forking out seven quid for a pint, shivering in a queue for a club night you don’t really care about, getting ripped off by landlords over blu tac stains, and squeezing in studio sessions around a relentless 9-5 schedule, there is only one logical response: fun.

That’s exactly what Home Counties provide on their debut album 2024’s, Exactly As It Seems. A newly-purchased synthesiser, a fresh outlook, and a steady diet of early 2000s pop kicked open a world of melodic possibility for the band, resulting in an album that’s upbeat from start to finish: swapping wry social commentary for personal experience and big tunes.

Home Counties always manage to balance the duality of lyrical frankness and musical buoyancy with gusto. With an eye for the day-to-day, all-too-relatable details of crap modern living, yet – coupled with an ear for hook-filled, grin-inducing melodies – the pay-off is one riddled in joy rather than despair.

Over their brief time as Adult DVD, the Leeds based 6-piece have become known for their relentless output of infectious hooks and grooves with a euphoric live show that could be mistaken for a club night. Their first single ‘Do Something’ taken from self-released, self- produced EP ‘Next Day Shipping’ landed straight onto the BBC6 Music B list earning widespread support from Dork, Line of Best Fit, Clash, Farout and more. The group ended 2024 with a packed out show at the iconic 100 Club show and 2025 kicked off with a sold out headline for Line Of Best Fit’s ‘5 Day Forecast’ a showcase for the essential new artists of the year.

Whether tapping into their love for chorus-centric indie or the influence of acid-house floor- fillers, their core appeal remains consistent: undeniable humour; bold, danceable instrumentals; and instantly memorable songwriting.

est. 2023 with a shared love of contemporary art punk bands like Pixies, Sonic Youth and Velvet Underground, we started in the Liverpool scene developing our own moody spoken word sound.

steel. have established themselves as leading members of the underground Liverpool scene, being touted as ‘ones to watch’ by Future Yard following a string of high profile support slots including Big Joanie, Skating Polly and Lou Barlow’s (Dinosaur Jr.) Folk Implosion.

steel. embodies the DIY punk attitude championing queer and modern ideology.

Based in the North West, dollop formed in Liverpool in early 2023, having not long finished university. Consisting of Stan (vocals and rhythm guitar), Gregory (backing vocals and lead guitar), Joe (bass), and Reuel (drums), the group’s songwriting style is meticulous and unorthodox, drawing inspiration from genres like post-punk, psychedelia, and jazz. The songs themselves are unique and stylistically complex, in that they constantly change and evolve, and explore themes of the mundane, domestication, unwanted surprise parties, and doom-scrolling. This detail translates to their live shows, which are explosive, theatrical, and comedic, yet accessible and widely appealing. The release of their first single ‘A Dog Indoors’ was met with high praise and rapturous applause, and the band is currently working on their next singles, which will be released later this year.