Live Band Karaoke
2024-10-04 19:00 - 23:00 UTC
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, 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.

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

Gather Round The Fire presents... Freda D’Souza
2024-10-08 19:30 - 23:00
Gather Round the Fire presents a magical evening of folk and singer-songwriter at our favourite community run venue in SE London.
FREDA DSZOUSA
Freda D’Souza is an artist who contentedly creates at snail’s pace. Her world is small; simplicity reveals detail and, in turn, detail reveals infinity. Freda cherishes space. In space, there is tenderness.
MAISIE SOPHIA
Drawing on influences from psychedelic and progressive-folk to Sufi music, Maisie’s ethereal vocals and earthy finger-picking guitar create a melodic cradle to quiet the mind and soothe the soul. Lyrically, her songs delve into our connection to the divine and to nature, and grapple with the pain of impermanence and individuation, all amidst the mystifying tangles of life’s experiences.
LUCY LUNDSTRÖM
In Lucy’s songwriting we find personal anecdotes interwoven with images from fairytales, myths and places. Her inspiration ranges from English contemporary folk music, such as Daisy Rickman, the visionary art of Swedish Painter John Bauer, and the films of David Lynch.
CAITLIN KING
Caitlin is a singer-songwriter from Southend-on-sea, Essex, now a Goldsmiths UOL graduate. She has always had a love for music and over the past years has begun to share that love, through her own music, to the public. Taking influences from artists such as, Lianne La Havas, Fiona Regan and Alice Phoebe Lou, Caitlin has found her sound: flowing between the genres of jazz, folk and acoustic.
Doors open at 7.30, music from 8 sharp.
TICKETS £5 in adv / £6 OTD
What are you waiting for – come gather round!

Piñata
2024-10-10 19:30 - 23:00
Piñata is back and now its at The Ivy House. Comedy cabaret and characters with the smashing of a big object to finish.

Lemonade Sin with support from The Abba Stripes
2024-10-11 19:30 - 23:00
Lemonade Sin’s dreamy indie pop fuses duelling vocals, jangly guitars and retro synths – “the intersection between Stereolab and Pulp”
The Abba Stripes feature indie legends Charley Stone and Melanie Woods playing the songs of Abba in the style of the White Stripes.
Tickets £5 on the door.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: Doolally Tap
2024-10-13 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 Ivy House legends Doolally Tap gracing our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

Link Aid
2024-10-18 19:00 - 23:00
In celebration of the work at Link Age Southwark, come down to The Ivy House on Friday 18th October to enjoy an evening of music and performance with 4 exciting local groups, with performances from:

Deptford Wives
The PGs
Shötley Crüe
Young Creative Collection

All proceeds will go towards Link Age Southwark, enabling more support to older people in Southwark and those living with a diagnosis of dementia.

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The Fabulous Red Diesel
2024-10-20 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 Fabulous Red Diesel our stage. 4 – 6pm, free entry, book a table to avoid disappointment.

Faux Fancy and Empires, Empires present: Fundraiser for Palestine
2024-10-24 19:30 - 23:00
We come together for a night of live music and solidarity in the hallowed halls of Nunhead institution, The Ivy House, for a fundraiser show in support of groups resisting the occupation both in Palestine and here in the UK.
Live music from
LEATHER.HEAD
EMPIRES, EMPIRES
DRIVE YOUR PLOW
+ live visuals from Iridiphore
Tickets £10 or £5 unwaged.
All proceeds to Defendant Solidarity Network and Youth of Sumud.
NOTAFLOF

Th Goose Is Out: Granny's Attic
2024-10-25 19:00 - 23:00
Granny’s Attic make a very welcome return to The Ivy House. This will be a great night!

Sunday Jazz at The Ivy House: The George Risk Group
2024-10-27 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.

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 🎃

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!
