Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The George Risk Group
2024-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 UTC
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.

Zach Thompson + Surely Knots + Tommy Barlow + Tranquilisers
2024-10-29 19:30 - 23:00
Live music from Zach Thompson + Surely Knots + Tommy Barlow + Tranquilisers.
Tickets £7, doors 7:30pm.

The Ivy House (Spooky) Weekly Quiz
2024-10-30 00:00
This week Quizman Julianna is going to be asking the questions. £2.50 per player. 8pm kick off!

Gob Nation presents Halloween at The Ivy House
2024-10-31 19:30 - 23:00
Halloween at The Ivy House 🎃
@thisisnyssa
“Toronto pagan-punk-poet Nyssa has put her hands into the lion’s mouth, gathering her performing and songwriting powers to conjure the unruly energy of rock n’ roll. Out from under fear’s thumb, Nyssa now sings about wild things, old gods, romance-beyond-borders, and the exorcism of trauma. She has quested, and she has returned.”
@_glass_eel
A new addition to the South London Folk scene. Full band show including haunting woodwind for spooky season.
Lanny (@horsemeat_scandal )
Lan from Ex-Void takes an idiosyncratic, deconstructed take on the hook-heavy guitar pop they’re known for. Lanny strikes a perfect balance between ambient experimentation and addictive songcraft. Debut show!
Plus! “Uninvited Entity” a short film by Taylor Stewart (@cooljinzo )
“Something strange is happening at The Ivy House… can the film crew work out what it is?”
Poster by @j.m.k.e
Fancy dress encouraged 🎃

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The George Mooney Group
2024-11-03 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.

Creative Writing Workshop
2024-11-04 19:00 - 23:00
Join local award-winning poet Caroline Druitt for a fun creative writing workshop at The Ivy House Nunhead.
With creatively challenging and original prompts for all levels, you will be guided through a series of exercises to generate new writing. We will look to the work of other writers for inspiration and discussion. There will be opportunities to share in a relaxing, supportive and nourishing environment.
This is for you if you:

want to make space for a writing practice
enjoy meeting your local community
like learning new things
are up for trying something new and fun
would love to support an amazing charity

Led by Caroline Druitt, an award winning poet living in South East London. Her poems have been published by AndOtherPoems, Lucent Dreaming, Anthropocene, The North Magazine and commissioned by Apples and Snakes. In 2023 she was long-listed for the Outspoken prize, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and commended in the National Poetry Competition. Her first short play ‘Apricots’ was showcased at Hackney Empire in April 2024.
@carolinedruitt https://carolinedruitt.com/
All proceeds go to Amos Trust – a small creative human rights organisation who challenge injustice, build hope & create change.
https://www.amostrust.org/

New Lands: Joe Soap / Douglas In Fur / Lonnie Story
2024-11-05 19:30 - 23:00
Rock and roll goodness in the heart of Nunhead, all for a fiver. This time featuring indie rock goodness from Joe Soap, Douglas in Fur, and Lonnie Storey.
Doors 7:30pm, advance tickets are £5 (+ bf).

The Ivy House Weekly Pub Quiz
2024-11-06 20:00 - 23:00
This week Quizman Matt is going to be asking the questions. £2.50 per player. 8pm kick off!
All entry fee proceeds go towards our ‘Community Pot’, which helps fund community benefit projects in our local area and beyond..

Plans For Nigel: My Fat Pony, Juniper Kid, Bloatyhead
2024-11-07 19:00 - 23:00
Plans For Nigel is a new London gig series created by two music loving idiots (for legal reasons, called Nigel) with misplaced ambition.
Join us on 7th November at The Ivy House to celebrate its first ever night of live music with friends – an event being described by critics as “a flagrant disregard to the public interest”.
Event Lineup:
My Fat Pony
Juniper Kid
Bloatyhead

Sansha presents... "Never Been Better - The Show"
2024-11-08 19:00 - 23:00
A music, comedy and poetry show about being a single millennial at the end of your twenties with bad habits and unregulated expectations.
Musician-comedian Sansha hasn’t done anything since lockdown except make lots of mistakes. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Or fuck your housemate.
Multi-instrumentalist Sansha will be joined by a live band for the first time in her 10 years of performing, plus support from live looper Clara Pople.

Sad Machine presents: Trust Fund
2024-11-09 19:00 - 23:00
Sad Machine presents Trust Fund at The Ivy House, in celebration of his new album ‘Has It Been A While’, released 2nd November on Tapete Records. Ellis will be joined by a string quartet for this show, which will be half seated + half standing. Support comes from H. L. Grail.
Ellis Jones has played music as Trust Fund since 2012, releasing four albums that range from lo-fi bedroom pop to full-band indie rock. His songs have been critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and The Guardian, and endorsed by Frank Ocean’s Blonded Radio. Trust Fund have played extensively in the UK and EU, including tours supporting Mitski, Frankie Cosmos and Los Campesinos! After an extended break since 2017, Trust Fund recently returned with the self-released singles ‘Capital’, ‘Late Nite Skate’, ‘Animals In War’ and ‘London’ – these quiet, introspective indie-folk songs have been playlisted by NPR, Merge, New York Times, and others.
Has It Been A While, Trust Fund’s fifth full-length record, is released 2nd November 2024 on Tapete Records.
H. L. Grail is the solo moniker of Goat Girl’s Holly Mullineaux. Sonically citing the subtle works of Tirzah, Okay Kaya, Adrienne Lenker and Slint member David Pajo’s Aerial M, her vulnerable acoustic-lead sound dips its toes into the experimental and the ethereal.
Presented by Sad Machine. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The Bec Chan Quartet
2024-11-10 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 Bec Chan Quartet gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

The Goose Is Out Monthly Singaround
2024-11-10 19:00 - 22:30
We welcome everybody to our Singarounds, to sing or to listen. They are held on the second
Sunday of the month throughout the year.
This isn’t an open mic evening – we don’t use mics and we don’t use the stage. You can sing
from your seat or wherever you want. The evenings are very informal and participative.
Songs can be accompanied or unaccompanied, solo, duo, trio or more, any genre, any
language!
If you would like to sing, just put your name on the list near the door at any time during the
evening. We call singers in the order of the list. Everybody gets one song, then if there's
time we start again.
Door 7pm, singing starts 7.15 prompt, finishes 10.30pm at the latest.
£5 cash or BACs only, sorry.
You can find out lots more about our Singarounds here:
https://www.thegooseisout.com/faq

The Ivy House Weekly Quiz with Quizman Sam
2024-11-13 20:00 - 23:00
This week Quizman Sam is going to be asking the questions. £2.50 per player. 8pm kick off!

Resonance FM Fundraiser
2024-11-15 19:30 - 23:00
An evening of music from artists with links to Resonance Fm with all proceeds going towards supporting the station.
Music from Eugene Coyne, The PGs, The Noirs and Hofnerama.
First act on stage at 7.45 sharp!

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: Nunhead Folk Circle
2024-11-17 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 Nunhead Folk Circle gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

New Lands: Luce Rushton / English Garden / Visa Baby
2024-11-19 19:30 - 23:00
Rock and roll goodness in the heart of Nunhead, all for a fiver. This time featuring a guitar centric triple bill from Luce Rushton, English Garden, and Visa Baby
Doors 7:30pm, advance tickets are £5 (+ bf).

The Ivy House Weekly Pub Quiz with Quizmaster Megan
2024-11-20 20:00 - 23:00
This week quizmaster Megan will be asking the questions. 8pm kick off and £2.50 per player.

The Ivy House Weekly Pub Quiz with Quizmaster Ida
2024-11-27 20:00 - 23:00
This week Quizmaster Ida will be asking the questions. 8pm start, £2.50 per player for entry!

The Goose Is Out: Jon Wilks
2024-11-29 19:00 - 23:00
We welcome Jon Wilks to the Goose Is Out for the first time.
‘Wilks excels at reanimating broadside ballads with a scholars ear and a dashing sense of verve on fingerpicked guitar’ – Uncut
‘Jon Wilks is the real deal’ – Martin Simpson

Upset The Rhythm presents: Richard Dawson
2024-12-07 19:30 - 23:00
RICHARD DAWSON has drawn so many long drafts from the whirlpools of Elemental North Eastern Archetypes, he may now be one himself. Fearless in his research and willingness to follow his inspiration, Dawson has created an impressive catalogue of music and storytelling steeped in both ancient myths and contemporary dread. A fog of sickness, trauma and mute inevitability inhabits his records and is often expressed in the havoc with which Dawson’s hands produce sounds from his long-suffering guitar, an instrument as bruised, individual and indefatigable as its owner.
Dawson’s forthcoming new album ‘End of the Middle’ (out Feb 14th through Weird World) is intricate, evocative, stripped-back, tactile and almost has the transportive ability to put you in the places and scenarios it describes. The album focuses around a family unit. “It zooms in quite close-up to try and explore a typical middle class English family home,” Dawson says. “We’re listening to the stories of people from three or four generations of perhaps the same family. But really, it’s about how we break certain cycles. I think the family is a useful metaphor to examine how things are passed on generationally.”
The title of the new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson’s career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Decide for yourself on February 14th 2025.
https://richarddawson.net/

TWAT UNION'S OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (A Very Twatty Xmas)
2024-12-13 20:00 - 23:00
Twat Union HQ have decided there’s just about enough dough in the 24/25 HR budget to put on a lil’ OFFICE XMAS PARTY for you all. So gather yer nearest and dearest, yer colleagues, yer pets (STRICTLY NO PETS), yer person you bumped into on the tube that one time, saying ‘we should get a coffee sometime!’ – IT’S A PARTY FOR EVERYBODY
And fuck me we just want you to have the best time ever!! So we’re throwing our silliest, glitziest, angriest, joyfullest party-cum-gig-cum-extravaganza yet, featuring *never heard before* Xmas Twat Covers (ft. sing-along lyric hand outs), Twatmus Pictionary and Pin the Clit on the Xmas Vulva!!! What more could you want???* We bloody hope we’ll see you there.
All tickets £10, half seated / half standing, please contact us if you would like a seat reserved for access reasons
*no, really, WHAT!?
