About Futurama Festival 2021
THE RETURN OF THE FUTURAMA FESTIVAL 11th & 12th SEPTEMBER 2021 – A UTOPIAN FESTIVAL FOR DYSTOPIAN TIMES
THE LEGENDARY 2-DAY POST-PUNK FESTIVAL RETURNS TO LIVERPOOL
OVER 60 BANDS ACROSS 5 VENUES ( INVISIBLE WIND FACTORY, SUBSTATION, MAKE, TEN STREETS SOCIAL & NORTH SHORE TROUBADOUR
Celebrating 40 years, Futurama was known as one of the greatest post punk & electronic festivals through the 70s & 80s. In fact, it was probably the first indoor alternative festival in the UK. The roll call reads like the greatest who's who of alternative music and they include Joy Division and New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, PiL, Killing Joke, Teardrop Explodes, Bauhaus, The Fall, Smiths, Gang of Four, Sisters of Mercy, Theatre Of Hate, Psychedelic Furs & even a fledgling U2.
Now it's back and already it is shaping up to be one of the best line ups of 2021. Saturday is headlined by Heaven 17 who will be performing early Human league songs, while on the Sunday Peter Hook and the Light will be performing the famous Joy Division set from the first Futurama in Leeds in 1979 as well as the bands greatest hits. They are supported by the likes of Spear of Destiny, The Chameleons, A Certain Ratio, Warmduscher, The Blinders, Clock DVA, Sex Gang Gang Children, Billy Nomates, Pom Poko, Sink Ya Teeth & Balaam and the Angel with more to be added
The whole festival will have a dystopian theme as the Invisible Wind Factory has a very art deco feel to it and looks like a set from the film Metropolis. There will street entertainers in dystopian costume, food and market stalls, a band signing area, photos booths and best of all it's indoors and all the venues are within a couple of minutes walk from each other!
Futurama Festival line up
Peter Hook & The Light, Courting, Bob Vylan, Billy Nomates, CRAWLERS & more.
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SATURDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER
HEAVEN 17 / SPEAR OF DESTINY / A CERTAIN RATIO / WARMDUSCHER / BILLY NOMATES / BALAAM & THE ANGEL / SPIZZ ENERGI / SECTION 25 /SINK YA TEETH / TVAM / IST IST / GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS / HEAVY LUNGS / WE ARE NOT DEVO / THE DSM IV /
TOKKY HORROR / POZI / WITCH FEVER /SPQR / LOOSE ARTICLES / PISS KITTI / PETE BENTHAM & THE DINNER LADIES / EXPELAIRES / FEATHER TRADE / LIBRALIBRA / SPILT / YAMMERER / DITZ / FRAUDS / THE GENTLE SCARS / THREE FROM ABOVE / BITE BACK /
DEH YEY / DRY RETCH
SUNDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER
PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT / THE CHAMELEONS / THE BLINDERS / CLOCK DVA / THE LOVELY EGGS / SEX GANG CHILDREN
THE MEMBRANES / JULIA BARDO / BLUE ORCHIDS / POM POKO / SAINT AGNES / JOHN / CHUBBY & THE GANG / BOB VYLAN
EVIL BLIZZARD / TVAM / ZEE DAVINE & THE UNHOLIES / CROWS / TV PRIEST / DR DIABLO & THE DEVIANT SHOW / COURTING
LIINES / DREAM NAILS / EYESORE & THE JINX / CRAWLERS / GRAVVES / GENN / THE MEFFS / TWISTED NERVE /
THE WEBB / KLAMP / THE PLEASURE DOME / COUGHIN' VICARS
Futurama Festival information & FAQs
The original Futuramas were a series of groundbreaking and innovative post punk and electronic music festivals in the late 70’s and early 80’s. They were the brainchild of one-man, John Keenan, a legendary Leeds promoter who has put thousands of bands on over 40 years at his famous F (Fan) Club. In 1979, he decided to create a 2-day festival at the Queens Hall in Leeds, he put on all his favourite up and coming bands and make it the first alternative indoor festival in Britain. Nearly all of Britain’s most important and influential independent bands played these festivals, many of them went onto considerable success in Britain, Europe and the US!
The roll call reads like the greatest who’s who of alternative music, it includes Joy Division, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, PiL, Killing Joke, Teardrop Explodes, Bauhaus, The Fall, Gang of Four, Sisters of Mercy, Theatre Of Hate, Psychedelic Furs & even a fledgling U2! The Futurama festivals caught the zeitgeist perfectly. They not only put on many female fronted bands including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Young Marble Giants, Bow Wow Wow & Altered Images but also many of the new wave of electronic & synthesizer acts including OMD, Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire, Simple Minds, Clock DVA & Vice Versa who later became ABC.
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