Yard Act has rapidly gone from being 6 Music’s best new thing to one of the most essential acts in the country in the wink of an eye. Their debut album, 2022’s The Overload, showed a band with swagger and intelligence, bringing snapshots of Northern life in a way we’ve not heard since Pulp and golden era Arctics. Their recent album, Where’s Our Utopia? has taken their story to a new level with a driving narrative that includes school bullies, a trip to Blackpool, and some fizzy fish. Since their blistering appearance at Glastonbury this year, they cannot be ignored. Bringing their show to Liverpool’s Olympia as part of the city’s Favourite Days Festival, they have in tow Floodlights and Freak Slug. Floodlights are the more interesting of the two acts and certainly the most promising. Havin...