Trad Sessions at The Ivy House
2024-08-12 19:30 - 23:00 UTC
Come one, come all, to our Monday trad session in the ballroom!
Bring your instruments and your spirit, for an open floor trad jam lead by Sarah and Co.
Trad and folk adjascent, free entry to play and watch!

The Regulars Variety Show
2024-08-15 19:30 - 23:00
Inspired and informed by the waves of recent pub closures and with intention to remind us of what will be lost without them, ‘The Regulars’ is a socially surreal and absurd comedy show which aims to immerse its audiences in the culture and atmosphere of the Pub. The show hopes to pay ode to the weird and wonderful characters we have all come across within pubs that make it what it is. Join the eponymous pub regulars as they laugh, cry, gamble and of course drink their way through life’s many ups and downs. In this show, we hope to establish a pub community, one that usually takes lifetime to achieve, in one night. A raucous love letter to pubs, pub culture and the importance of community in the face of overpriced Guinness, based on real stories from real people. We want to highlight the importance of community/ third spaces whilst they are still around. We hope to put more shows on, like this one, specifically at pubs as the spending from audience members at the bar and new clientele is vital lifeblood to keep them open in an uncertain landscape. Next round is on you!!

DYAF PRESENTS:
2024-08-16 19:30 - 23:00
GENDER WARFARE
DO ONE
SEVEN YEAR WAITING LIST
£5 Donation Entry
All proceeds go to Medical Aid Palestine

Lou Terry 'Rollercoaster Therapy' single launch
2024-08-21 19:30 - 23:00
With support from Lobby and Swelt (solo)
Join us at The Ivy House in Nunhead for the release of our second single ‘Rollercoaster Therapy’ from our upcoming album ‘Building a Case’ out in November on Divine Schism!
We love this venue to bits, and we’ve got 2 of our favourite artists supporting, Lobby (with members of Goat Girl & Leatherhead) and a stripped back set from Reuben of the brilliant Swelt.

Faux Fancy: The Queen's Head plus Luuuc and Sunglasz Vendor
2024-08-23 19:30 - 23:00
THE QUEEN’S HEAD
A tidal wave of anger, fear, love, and lust. While it would be easy to label this group as some form of ‘post-punk’, there’s a push and pull in the blend of Dub and Disco influences that bubbles with tenacity and intrigue. A stick of dynamite with a fuse as long as a piece of string. As danceable as it is riot-inducing. Truly one of the great live shows in the city, they will make you sweat, and make you fall to your knees.
LUUUC
Having just released initial single, ‘Panic’, Luuuc has already sparked a light in the tunnel guided by the track’s contained-yet-writhing energy. A new venture from a seasoned pro of the stage, we’re excited to watch this act shed further light on on their interpretation of guitar-tinged frenzy.
SUNGLASZ VENDOR
Bristol trio wriggling with experimental rock riffs, shrouded in emo to guitar-pop influences. As furious as they are inquisitive.
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Doors 19:30
Music Starts 20:15
Tickets £8 online and on the door
NOTAFLOF
If you’d like to come to the show but can’t afford it, please give us an email (fauxfancylive@gmail.com) or speak to someone on the door.

Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival - Pub Quiz
2024-08-28 19:30 - 23:00
Quizman Sam is back on The Ivy House stage to present a special variant of his famed quiz. Film trivia is the name of the game as this is the opening event for this year’s Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival!
Tables can be booked ahead of time, free entry, quiz starts at 8pm.

BAG, Daylightbulb, Go Sing
2024-08-30 19:30 - 23:00
This event features 3 acts exploring sound, noise, music and the interplay with voice and lyrics….
BAG
“Theirs is a world where music and language seem precariously tied together, emerging in a lyrical call and response to create something as bewildering as it is lucid. It triggers a unique effect for the listener. Never didactic, BAG’s music feels like an invitation to join them in charting the contours of a world constantly in flux.” Daryl Worthington (The Quietus)
This will be the act’s first performance as a 3 piece with Angèle David Guillou.
Daylightbulb
Daylightbulb is the noise-punk band of Nathan Greywater (base), Tom Spurling (framework) and Iris Colomb (spokesperson). Together, they combine improvised bass and drums with absurdist cut-up sprechstimme vocals to confront a NEAR AND LUMINOUS FUTURE in which NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS. Warped textures and restless beats contract and collapse, fueled by distorted slogans and impossible imperatives. This project was sparked by the explosive spontaneity of Skronk, Rick Jensen’s legendary free-improvisation sessions.
Go Sing
Go Sing gathers artists laur rozier and ada egg koskiluoma. in their sound, texts and performances they explore a landscape of love, rivalry and companionship.
Their minimalist opera the way you saw me is guided by voices that appear as instrumental texture, an incantation with intertwining narratives. space and bodies thrown off balance, grow into a meditation on dramatic scrolling and the life of others. never quite in reach but so close.

Sunday Jazz Sessions: George Risk Group
2024-09-01 16:00 - 18:00
Every Sunday we welcome acts playing jazz and beyond to our stage for a free entry Sunday session of great live music. This week we’re thrilled to have The George Risk Group gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

New Lands #9: Kipper Gillespie / Wholesale / Autobloom
2024-09-03 19:30 - 23:00
Rock and roll goodness in the heart of Nunhead, all for a fiver. This time featuring brooding, jangly guitars and a spot of synth action from Kipper Gillespie, Wholesale, and Autobloom.
Doors 7:30pm, advance tickets are £5 (+ bf).

The Ivy House Weekly Pub Quiz w/ Quizmaster Matt
2024-09-04 20:00 - 23:00
This week Quizmaster Matt will be asking the questions. 8pm start, £2.50 per player for entry!
Book a table below!

Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival - Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface + Q&A
2024-09-05 19:30 - 23:00
Between London Pride 1984 and 1985 an unlikely alliance was forged between the gay men and lesbians of London and the striking miners of South Wales.
Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface at The Ivy House on Thursday 5th September will captivate you with the unexpected and
uplifting love story at its heart. Not between two people, but between two communities who – seemingly worlds apart – found common cause and compassion for each other in the face of immense challenges. As they fought for each other’s rights, they changed the course of history for queer people in the UK.
This remarkable tale was made famous by the Bafta winning film Pride a decade ago, but the real story behind the script is even richer and more powerful. And the legacy of these events is still felt to this day, 40 years on from the miners’ strike. Narrated by Welsh drag icon Tayce
(RuPaul’s Drag Race UK) with exclusive access to key contributors.
Q&A with director Ashley Francis-Roy (Damilola: The Boy Next Door), producer Sasha Kosminsky (Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein) and contributors.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: Doolally Tap
2024-09-08 16:00 - 18:00
Every Sunday we welcome acts playing jazz and beyond to our stage for a free entry Sunday session of great live music. This week we’re thrilled to have Doolally Tap gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

The Ivy House Weekly Pub Quiz with Quizman Sam
2024-09-11 20:00 - 23:00
This week Quizman Sam will be asking the questions. 8pm start, £2.50 per player for entry!

Falling Moon #35: The Last Whole Earth Catalog + Sham + Kaspar Hauser
2024-09-12 19:30 - 23:00
Join us at the Ivy House on the 12th September for a very folksy evening with The Last Whole Earth Catalog (Brutal Reality Group), Sham (US) and Kaspar Hauser.

In January the Last Whole Earth Catalog debuted at the Ivy House the ‘Brutal Reality group’ – a special new folksy incarnation of the band to honour their wonderful 2023 album – cello, flute, double bass, piano, acoustic guitars, melodica, vocal harmonies etc. – you get the idea. That January show was a resounding success so we’re bringing them back for a second round.

Sham’s latest album ‘Machine Simple’ is a colourful journey of the psychedelic freak folk tunes, endlessly creative, experimental and charming. They crossed the pond from the US for this one – playing as a trio – be sure to catch their only London date!

Kaspar Hauser turns into a quintet for their first London show since the release of their debut album ‘Lighter Than a Feather’.

Passionate Necking
2024-09-13 19:00 - 23:00
Passionate Necking, your friend’s favourite club night that they dragged you to in 2018, is back again. We’ll be at the Ivy House from 7pm til midnight on Friday 13th September. We look forward to seeing you again.
SOLD OUT

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: Nunhead Folk Circle
2024-09-15 16:00 - 18:00
Every Sunday we welcome acts playing jazz and beyond to our stage for a free entry Sunday session of great live music. This week we’re thrilled to have Nunhead Folk Circle gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

New Lands #10: First Day of Spring / Linfa Kear / Jackson Roy
2024-09-17 19:30 - 23:00
Rock and roll goodness in the heart of Nunhead, all for a fiver. This time featuring serene sounds from First Day of Spring, Linfa Kear, and Jackson Roy.
Doors 7:30pm, advance tickets are £5 (+ bf).

ATLAS CLUB PRESENTS: Lerryn's EP Launch :As A Mother
2024-09-19 19:30 - 23:00
As A Mother is an EP created by South East London musician and artist, Lerryn, due for release digitally and on cassette on 13th September via Redundant Span Records. Preorder here.
Lerryn has been a stalwart of the South East London creative scene for over a decade. The founder of cult creative space Lerryn’s Cafe and later frontwoman of post-punk band Dead Arm, her impact on a DIY scene that has defined a corner of London has been significant.
As A Mother is the first offering from the next chapter of Lerryn’s own life, and the debut release under her own name. It is a record written during her experience of pregnancy, motherhood and a period of profound creative reckoning.
Lerryn’s EP Launch will be celebrating and promoting this release!

The Ivy House 11th Birthday Bash: Tugboat Captain
2024-09-20 19:30 - 23:00
As the Summer draws to a close, we throw our hands in the air and shout from the rooftops as we celebrate 11 years of community ownership here at The Ivy House. To mark the occasion, we’ve curated two nights of our favourite live music from across the city, starting with night one as follows…
TUGBOAT CAPTAIN
Baroque-pop at it’s absolute best. Tugboat Captain have evolved from the jangly, lo-fi of 2017 smash ‘Don’t Want To Wake Up On My Own’, into multi-layered symphonic pop masters. Recent tunes ‘Flash of Light’ and ‘Bosch’ are prime examples of the outfit’s limitless sonic scope, with horizons akimbo and hits a plenty still bubbling away within their very innards.
When not gracing stages across the world, they can be found at their Bermondsey HQ recording fellow future superstars, further baking themselves into the very fabric of the London music scene.
The cherry on top? They’re all very lovely people.
SPECIAL GUEST TBA
We can’t give this one away quite yet, but we will say that this groups harmonious, melodic ways with leave you bursting at the ‘Spleen’.
WILSHAW
Wilshaw is a project committed to creating honest and affecting music, filtered through their soulful and tender blend of indie rock, folk and pop.
CONUS SP. BENT
Folk guitars and pop melodies filtered through a leftfield structural view. 2023 album ‘New Stile’ is a glimpse into an artist playing with the very fabric of songwriting.

The Ivy House 11th Birthday Bash All-Dayer
2024-09-21 17:00 - 23:00
As the Summer draws to a close, we throw our hands in the air and shout from the rooftops as we celebrate 11 years of community ownership here at The Ivy House. To mark the occasion, we’ve curated two nights of our favourite live music from across the city, culminating in this massive all-dayer to see out the Summer…
EX-VöID
A power-pop quartet like no other. Ex-Vöid attack with a serene intertwining of dual vocals and guitars, a harmonious afront that pushes the three minute structure to it’s very limits. Debut album “Bigger Than Before” was released on Prefect Records and Don Giovanni Records in 2022, recorded live and dangerously in just under an hour. Guitar-pop fans rejoice, it’s about to get sweaty.
MORGAN NOISE
Unexpected rhythms, wonky synths and vocals are woven together by Morgan Noise in a perfect chaos. A regular at the Windmill, and recently supporting Porridge Radio on their tour, Morgan Noise has been making waves around London. Something new to wash out your ears, you will not hear what is coming until it’s too late
MOUNT DOOM
From the very depths of Middle Earth emerge Mount Doom. The group take the famed soundtrack of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, filtering the compositions through a sludge and doom metal lens to make the ground quake beneath our feet. More entrancing than Galadriel, more powerful than the Horn of Helm Hammerhand, bask in the glory of Mount Doom.
LOU TERRY
A firm fixture around The Ivy House, Lou is one of our favourite music makers in the city. Harsh and experimental guitar tones blend with often deeply confessional and heartfelt song writing that result in a sound that can only be described as “raw power” in every sense of the phrase. He’ll make you weep, he’ll make you jump in pure ecstasy. Lou Terry forever.
STRANGE DEVOTION
A new group bringing an incredibly unique take on wonky new wave to the table. Danceable, rockable, utterly earworm-y, while we wait with baited breath on their first release we have no choice but to absorb this group’s effortlessly cool live shows in all their glory.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The London Django Collective
2024-09-22 16:00 - 18:00
Every Sunday we welcome acts playing jazz and beyond to our stage for a free entry Sunday session of great live music. This week we’re thrilled to have The London Django Collective gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

Lug Hole 004: The Paper Jubilee
2024-09-26 19:30 - 23:00
It’s our birthday!!

Bleet! is turning 1! Since the beautiful chaos of our launch a year ago it’s been quite the ruff-clad ride. To celebrate we’re returning to one of our favourite venues, The Ivy House, for a night of conviviality and a new host of giddy goats. We are thrilled to welcome the ‘glowy-lushness’ of NiCKY, alongside the irresistible trio Watch Paint Dry, Mallika Joy, and Lili Murphy-Johnson with more surprises on the night! Our birthday gala will be held together by your host, the fantastic Ozzy Algar.

Of course it wouldn’t be a Lug Hole without a brand new edition of Bleet! a new work by the magnificent Sophie Jung which will be available on the night.

Kids have become goats, come party with us!

Expect tongue twisting morsels, bizarre tales from the bard and juicy tunes.

We have a limited amount of discounted tickets (£5) available for those in need – please email: bleetzine@gmail.com
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@watchpaint_dry
@llllika
@lilimurphyjohnson
@ozzyalgar
Tix £8.50 adv. | £12 otd.
26/09/2024 | 7:30pm
The Ivy House, Nunhead
SE15 3BE

The Goose Is Out presents... Phil Beer
2024-09-27 19:00 - 23:00
Phil first began to play fiddle, guitar and mandolin whilst still at school in Teignmouth, Devon. This passion for acoustic music was especially stirred by the Davy (later known as Davey) Graham album Folk, Blues and Beyond.
“A Phil Beer gig is one spent in the company of a true craftsman, a master musician and a consummate performer” – Spiral Earth
Support from James Eagle and Creeping Jane

Nunhead Art Trail
2024-09-28 18:00 - 23:00
As part of this year’s Nunhead Art Trail, an evening of fantastic free entertainment featuring comedy, poetry and music, with Sax Quartet, Nunhead Choir,
Janet Harper, Repetitive John, Thalia Marie, Mr Klive, The Gillies, The Rye Poets, Peckham Chamber Orchestra… Compered by Stacey Williams.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: George Richardson Trio
2024-09-29 16:00 - 18:00
Every Sunday we welcome acts playing jazz and beyond to our stage for a free entry Sunday session of great live music. This week we’re thrilled to have the George Richardson Trio gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

New Lands: Mabel Clarke, 12 Apostles, Joshua K
2024-10-01 19:30 - 23:00
Rock and roll goodness in the heart of Nunhead, all for a fiver. This time featuring alt-folk to leftfield wonk from Mabel Clarke, 12 Apostles, and Joshua K
Doors 7:30pm, advance tickets are £5 (+ bf).

REAL Sounds: Paisley Daze / TRIIIP / Daay
2024-10-03 19:30 - 23:00
Paisley Daze
Deep in the enigmatic world of The Paisley Daze exists a sumptuous combination of raw rock n roll and sunshine soul. A musical journey that fuses echoes of the past with a captivating present, shrouded in a veil of intrigue awaits

TRIIIP
Alternative rock trio from Manchester (UK) with Johannesburg (SA) roots, blends electronic beats, powerful guitar riffs, and emotive vocals. Founded in 2020 by Ciaran Quinn (vocals, bass, synth) and Brogan Herron (guitar, synth, vocals), and joined by drummer Ben Chuvali, TRIIIP made their mark in South Africa before relocating to Manchester in 2022. Their innovative sound defies genre boundaries, offering a unique sonic adventure. Discover TRIIIP on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and YouTube for a fusion of rock and electronic influences.

DAAY
Formed in London in 2019 DAAY is a 6 piece band that aims to produce genre defying alternative indie art rock music.

Live Band Karaoke
2024-10-04 19:00 - 23:00
Reckon you’ve got the swagger of Jagger? The bravado of Blondie? Well, this is the night for you.
Belt out pure classics in front of an electric crowd, backed by a sensataional five-piece band. Pick from nearly 300 tracks from all genres – from Dolly Parton to Metallica. Lyrics are provided on a screen. Our compere will be on stage with you, to add those critical backing vocal parts or to provide additional support if required.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The George Mooney Group
2024-10-06 16:00 - 18:00
Every Sunday we welcome acts playing jazz and beyond to our stage for a free entry Sunday session of great live music. This week we’re thrilled to have the George Mooney Group gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

Loose Threads
2024-10-08 19:30 - 21:00
Fortnightly, drop in – drop out, sewing group. From 7:30pm.
