The Brickyard

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FRIDAY TRAGEDY: ALL METAL TRIBUTE TO THE BEE GEES & BEYOND ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New York City’s Tragedy brings the headbangin’ bootyshakin’ good times back to The Brickyard in Carlisle city! Tragedy takes disco, soft-rock and pop classics, and completely reimagines them as glorious, red-hot heavy metal. Sure to put a smile on your face and your fist in the air. “Tragedy rocks sweet balls and can do no wrong! They are great fun!” – Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SATURDAY FRANKLY, THE SMITHS / LAID (JAMES TRIBUTE) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Frankly, The Smiths are a Scottish tribute act to The Smiths. The four piece delve deep into the indie legend’s back catalogue, performing lengthy shows which please both the casual and devoted fan. Laid have hit the tribute scene with lightning pace, receiving high praise everywhere they play. Bookings all over the country have come in thick and fast and the band have marked their territory as the leading tribute to one of the be

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FRIDAY SLEEP BROKEN (SLEEP TOKEN TRIBUTE) + VICES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Emerging in 2025, Sleep Broken have rapidly taken the world of tribute bands by storm, captivating audiences across the UK with an immersive and authentic experience! Their widespread success has been demonstrated by their inclusion in Metal Hammer’s Best of 2025 magazine special after headlining the renowned Camden Underworld for only their sixth ever ritual! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUNDAY HARDWICKE CIRCUS + THE TOMORROW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Part of the Everywhere at Once festival organised alongside the Music Venue Trust. It’ Hardwicke Circus are fast earning a reputation as one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the UK in recent years. Their sound blends the brio of the E Street Band with the dark passion of The Doors, delivered with unmistakable British grit and a high-voltage Carlisle attack.

STONEVALE! A Cumbria-based indie rock band, previously known as Indie Street Club. Following a reform and rebrand, the band have hit the ground running, selling out venues across Cumbria and have just released their brand new single ‘Exactly’. Recently, Stonevale supported The Sherlocks on dates of their UK tour, adding to an impressive list of past support slots including Buzzcocks and The Futureheads. With strong backing from BBC Introducing over the years they’ve had introducing live slots as well as radio play. Stonevale are known for their high energy live performances, and expanding to a 5 piece only amplifies the chaos – more guitars, more noise, and an even bigger sound. Support comes from The Tomorrow, The Omlette Project and MR2.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FRIDAY AVIDS + NUISANCE TO THE NEIGHBOURS + CLARITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Border Live Agency presents three local acts, each delivering their own take on modern indie. A chance to catch some of Carlisle’s homegrown talent live on one bill. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SATURDAY DWELLED + LOVELETTER + NEGATIVES + GROBLIN AND THE BALLISTICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dev Bros Promotions proudly presents a night full of emerging, ferocious and unforgiving bands. "A hammer blow of devastating energy." - Metal Noise

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THURSDAY THE BRICKYARD COMEDY CLUB ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Brickyard Comedy Club returns for the sixth instalment with another stellar line-up featuring the best up-and-coming comedians the country has to offer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FRIDAY MELANIE BAKER + BOTANY’S SINISTER SISTER + ADAMR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ With pounding drums, fuzzy guitars, and tender lyrical precision, Baker reclaims the grit and spirit of ’90s alt-rock through a queer, modern lens. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SATURDAY THE POLIS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Performing a “blisteringly authentic” live set of classic Police singles, B-sides and iconic live arrangements, The Polis are here to show why they are one of the UK’s “must see” tribute acts in 2026.