Having been touring across Europe and the States for the last few months in support of their hit 2026 album ‘You‘re Gonna Need A Little Music’, Leeds based post-punk favourites Yard Act finally hit the road in the UK for a sold-out UK tour which, having kicked off with two shows in their home city a few days ago, takes the band the length and breadth of the country.
After the two nights in Leeds, the tour arrives a few miles up the road for a date in Newcastle at NX. Now, it’s November, Summer is well and truly behind us and it’s Tuesday night so it would be fair to expect a slightly muted atmosphere for most bands. Not so in this case, with Yard Act frontman James Smith leading the encouragement, it is no understatement to say that Newcastle were ready to party with their Yorkshire hosts.
Taking some annoying sound gremlins in their stride, Yard Act powered on through tracks from their chart-bothering album as “Fiction”, “Tall Tales”, and ”Cherophobe Rock” all dropped in quick succession early on.
An exciting live proposition, Yard Act tear through an impressive eighteen song set which, while weighing heavily on their new album, does still see the band dipping into their bag of tracks to bring out old favourites like “Dead Horse” and ”The Overlord”, the title track of their breakthrough 2022 debut album. Mixing up the setlist every night means fans who are heading out to this tour, should get a unique experience on each date with surprises around every corner.
Wrapping up this sweaty November night in Newcastle, Yard Act bring out Lava La Rue to debut a cover of LCD Soundsystem‘s “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” to bring the curtain down on an evening which, despite its issues, has shown why Yard Act are fast becoming one of the most attention-grabbing bands on the UK live circuit.
As the album title says you are gonna need a little music. Thankfully we have bands like Yard Act with their raucous, socially-tinged post punk to provide us with that perfect musical medicine.
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