Futurama Festival
futurama festival annual postpunk gothic rock festival held venue leeds stafford queensferry sixth edition held aimed relaunch postponed forced cancel result continuing covid pandemic united kingdom end promoter john keenan running event called f club leeds decided put futurama festival queen hall september billing world first sciencefiction music festival lineup included certain ratio cabaret voltaire echo bunnymen fall joy division orchestral manoeuvre dark public image ltd teardrop explodes overall half postpunk band lineup came four city leeds liverpool manchester sheffield mike badger later la hitchhiked liverpool recalled crowd composed glue sniffing punk stan erraught star heaven wrote joy division revelation obviously abiding memory seeing fall first many time futurama band queen hall included clock dva echo bunnymen durutti column virgin prune performed wearing loincloth pig head crotch siouxsie banshee headlined soft cell early bill keyboardist dave ball soft cell saw john peel audience gave copy first ep mutant moment peel played radio show signed bizzare record review event nme mixed one writeup calling castle donington angstrock brigade following year futurama held bingley hall stafford bauhaus theatre hate uk decay sister mercy playing futurama held deeside leisure centre sport centre queensferry northern wale hosted danse society dead alive march violet gene love jezebel sex gang child southern death cult futurama ended run event back queen hall lineup goth punk band including new model army according dazed use word goth describe genre coined yorkshire evening post article describing fifth festival sixth futurama put keenan bradford alhambra announced futurama would return april following year two day festival liverpool invisible wind factory heaven peter hook light headline act result covid pandemic festival first postponed september april since heaven could longer headline replaced new model army early announced festival going ahead official site