Futurama Festival Adds The Skids & New Model Army To 2022 Line Up

Futurama, the legendary post-punk, and electronic music festival, originally due to return in 2020 and delayed twice due to the pandemic, is now set to finally take place over the 2022 Easter Weekend, April 16th – 17th, in Liverpool, UK. There has, nevertheless, been some unavoidable line-up changes to the event due to re-scheduling issues. Futurama was unable to offer a headline slot on a workable day for original headliners Heaven 17, so sadly they have had to withdraw from the event. However, Futurama are pleased to announce that New Model Army are now the new headliners for the Saturday with very special guests The Skids as main support. 

New Model Army played the 5th Futurama in Leeds in 1983 and it makes perfect sense to headline nearly 40 years later. New Model Army have had an outstanding career and they are just about to embark on a 40th anniversary tour in November that takes in Glasgow, Nottingham Rock City and London’s Roundhouse. Likewise with The Skids, who since coming back together in 2016 have been wowing audiences with their live shows. The Skids didn’t play the original Futurama festivals, but Richard Jobson’s Armoury Show played Futurama 5 at the Queen’s Hall in 1983.

“I have a strong and fond memory of playing the Futurama festival with the Armory Show back in 1983. It was exactly the kind of event we should have been playing and in the right company such as Death Cult and Killing Joke (Youth is now our producer). I feel the same kind of excitement today having been asked to return with the reformed Skids. It’s Rock’n’roll dystopia made cool in a way that JG Ballard would have approved of. Can’t wait” (Richard Jobson)

Tickets for the Futurama festival are now on sale here