BEACON SHOWCASE FT. CHIEDU ORAKA
+ STEEL. + DILETTANTE + CHEERYHull’s finest MC and ‘Northern Grime’ purveyor Chiedu Oraka returns to Future Yard on Thursday 8th January as part of Beacon 2025.
He’s joined on the night by the art-pop loop-fest that is Dilettante, the also returning spoken-word alternative sounds of steel. and the sonic cinema of Cheery.
Chiedu was one of the stand-out performers from 2024’s Future Now Festival, stunning the Birko crowd with his lyrics. Born from the belly of the beast in Hull’s council estates, Chiedu is here to disrupt the reign of London-centric grime. His bars can fill the dancefloors as capably as they serve as social poetry, portraying the Black, working-class experience from the frontlines of a largely white, economically deprived region of the north. Delivered in his city’s distinct accent with lashings of colourful slang for good measure, Oraka is a fierce representative of a new sound and an amplifier of stories yet to be told.
Tickets on sale now.
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. The bar is open after the show and the band will be selling merch in the bar area.
