What’s on
At the Ivy House, it’s a constantly changing scene, so we have an ever-evolving list of events that are updated regularly. But we also have a schedule of regular activities around which we work, from kids’ drama to knitting classes, from sci-fi clubs to Sunday singarounds.
Calendar of Events
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The George Mooney Trio
Sun Sep 13 / 16:00 / Free Entry
George Mooney and his trad jazz trio soundtrack our Sunday roasts this week.
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Mile End Kicks (UK Premiere)
Mon 14 Sep / 20:00 / £10
THE INDIE SLEAZE ERA IN THIS LOVE TRIANGLE ROM-COM
A 24-year-old music critic (Barbie Ferreira) gets romantically involved with two members of the same indie band she is covering, set against Montreal's vibrant indie music scene in 2011.
Presented by Deeper Into Movies as part of their 10th birthday.
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Matching Outfits
Tue 15 Sep / 19:30 / £13.20 (£8.80 unwaged)
Matching Outfits are a trio of adopted Berliners whose warped, wistful take on indie pop has been compared to “a Super 8 film from the family attic”. Their debut cassette ‘Band Made Out Of Sand’ caught the attention of cult radio station WFMU as well as New Jersey label Bar/None (Yo La Tengo, The Feelies), which signed the band and released their sophomore album ‘Ditch Me’ on July 25th 2025.
Presented by Divine Schism
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Football Pub Quiz
Wed 16 Sept / 20:00 / £2.50
Will M Hall returns for another edition of his beloved football quiz. For the Barclays-heads.
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The Ivy House 13th Birthday Bash
Fri 18 Sep / 19:30 / £9
The Ivy House is turning 13! To celebrate, we are hosting two very special days of music. On the Friday we will be joined by musical wizards, Glass Eel, Sidney Jones and the Murmuration and with special guests Preen headlining the night. It's sure to be a wonderful one. See you there.
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The Ivy House 13th Birthday Bash
Sat 19 Sep / 17:00 / £12 (£8 unwaged)
The Ivy House is turning 13! To celebrate, we are hosting two very special days of live music. On Saturday we are joined by SUEP, Scrounge, Potato, Eaves Wilder and Jackson Roy.
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Doolally Tap
Sun 20 Sep / 16:00 / Free Entry
Normal service resumes as our famous Jazz + Roasts Sundays return for the winter season. This week’s picks are Doolally Tap and their footstomping New Orleans flavours.
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New Lands: The PGs + Gem Stark
Tue 22 Sep / 19:30 / £7
The PGs will be playing a selection from singer Mary Currie and Gareth Williams’ (This Heat) iconic album from the eighties “Flaming Tunes.” Along with some of their own kickin’songs.
Alongside them we have Gem Stark, whose sincere sensibilities are especially meaningful to anyone that has cried to the hum of a PAT-failed lamp in a second-hand bookshop within a 30-mile radius of the Peak District.
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Olive Wreath Pub Quiz
Wed 23 Sep / 20:00 / £2.50
Hosted by Olive Wreath. Winning team gets a £50 bar tab!
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Wildwood Daddy
Thu 24 Sep / 19:30 / £7
Wildwood Daddy, Fionnuala Mary Bradbury and Eli Carvajal cast songs and spells at the reap of harvest time.
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Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
Fri 25 Sep / 19:00 / £14
Described in The Living Tradition as ‘captivating, bold and striking’, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is at the forefront of his generation of English folk musicians as both a powerful and commanding singer and a masterful player of the Anglo concertina and melodeon.
Presented by The Goose Is Out!
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Lou Terry
Sat 26 Sept / 19:30 / £12
Lou Terry celebrates the release of his spectacular second album Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Spectacle.
Presented by Divine Schism.
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The George Risk Group
Sun 27 Sep / 16:00 / Free Entry
Gorgeous jazz and delicious roasts, it must be an Ivy House Sunday. This week’s entertainment comes via the gypsy jazz stylings of The George Risk Group.
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Crib Club
Tue 28 Sep / 19:00 / £3.50
The tournament will consist of multiple rounds, with the highest-ranked teams progressing to the final. The winning team will take home the £50 cash jackpot!!
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lilo Pub Quiz
Wed 30 Sep / 20:00 / Free Entry
Hosted by lilo. Winning team gets a £50 bar tab!
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Live Band Karaoke
Fri 2 Oct / 19:00 / £12
Sing along to your favourite song with a live band!
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The George Mooney Trio
Sun 4 Oct / 16:00 / Free Entry
This Sunday’s roasts are soundtracked by the soothing sounds of The George Mooney Trio!
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New Lands: Sienna Melella + antematterz
Tue 6 Oct / 19:30 / £7
Sienna Melella's debut EP, Backbite, dropped earlier this year. Resplendent in its beauty, full of ethereal folk reminiscent of Linda Perhacs, Sibylle Baier and Florist.
antematterz joins us from Libson for his first London show - playing songs from his second album Giving Up The Blade, a work that reflects an artistic evolution and where the influences that shape his sound identity are clearly audible, from Bright Eyes to Death Cab for Cutie, passing through the vocal melodies of Big Thief.
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Balkan Jazz Bonanza
Fri 9 Oct / 19:30 / Free Entry
Riotous Balkan brass with the Trans-Siberian March Band + very special guests to be announced soon!
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South London Soul
Sat 10 Oct / 19:00 / Free Entry
South London Soul is back with regular DJs Mole, Phil, Tom and Jeff, plus special guest Paul Franklin (Mersea Island) spinning the very best in soul, Northern, and beyond!
If you love to dance to Soul served warm, rare, and irresistible, this is where you need to be. Bring your friends, bring your moves, bring your good energy — the DJs will handle the rest.
Free CD for the first 25 guests - grab yours while they last.
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Nockles/Jones Jazz
Sun 11 Oct / 16:00 / Free Entry
Nockles/Jones Jazz provide the soundtrack to this Sunday’s roasts.
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Geraint Watkins & the Mosquitoes
Tue 13 Oct / 19:30 / £13.20
A return visit to the Ivy House for Geraint Watkins & the Mosquitoes. Featuring Geraint Watkins (vocals/keyboards/accordion), Oliver Darling (vocals/lead guitar), Little George Sueref (vocals/harmonica/guitar), Paul Riley (bass), Malcolm Mills (drums). Geraint's own music will be the main feature of the evening interspersed with features from Little George and Oliver.
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Rock N Roll Book Club: The Blitz
Thu 15 Oct / 19:00 / £16.96
Rock & Roll Book Club returns to the Ivy House in Nunhead with a very special guest, Robert Elms in conversation - Blitz The Club That Created The 80’s.
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Doolally Tap
Sun 18 Oct / 16:00 / Free Entry
Sunday roasts, accompanied by the footstomping New Orleans jazz stylings of Doolally Tap!
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Casual Devastation
Mon 19 Oct / 19:00 / £7
Casual Devastation Presents: Video Screening 🏥
A night of short films that capture the best of Los Angeles’s underground cinema and Montreal’s bountiful video-art scene. The films include an assortment of dissolving video-paintings, body-vibrating blast beats, and ancient-tales accompanied by the fumes of burning celluloid projectors. Expect VHS tape thrillers, phantasmagoric odysseys, soul-teasing interludes and ethereal spongebathes.
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New Lands: The TEJ Quartet + arps & Big Oil
Tue 20 Oct / 19:30 / £7
An entirely instrumental special edition of New Lands!
The TEJ Quartet is built around the idiosyncratic and hypnozting guitar work of Toby Evans-Jesra (Lobby, Leather.head, Piglet). He is joined by three incredible guitarists who symphonise and explore every sonic space between quiet and loud, between jarring and joy.
Also performing will be arps & Big Oil, who will be debuting a very special live collaboration, merging arps' lush, ambient, amphibian-infused dreamscapes and Big Oil's primitive-inspired fingerpicked guitar.
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Misty & Rufus Miller
Thu 22 Oct / 19:30 / £10
Renowned sister and brother musicians from South London, Misty and Rufus Miller perform as solo artists and in different bands, seldom as a duo. This makes their concert at The Ivy House extra special, where they will join forces to showcase songs from their back catalogue plus some covers of their favourite music.
Support from Tawai + Universal Uncle
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Back To Black (20th Anniversary Celebration)
Sat 24 Oct / 19:00 / £11.30 - £15.85
Rob Howat's Big Band is back to perform Amy Winehouse's seminal album, Back to Black on its 20th Anniversary for one night only!
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The George Risk Group
Sun 25 Oct / 16:00 / Free Entry
The George Risk Group accompany this Sunday’s roasts!
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Visit Me
Tue 27 Oct / 19:30 /£5
Falling Moon is ecstatic to present 3 of the most exciting new bands: dream/ambient pop trio "Visit Me", glitchy industrial art folk project "spineless and conniving" & indie rock outfit "Tape Dispenser".
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Passionate Necking
Sat 31 Oct / 19:00
Passionate Necking returns from the dead for a Halloween special!
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New Lands: Dead Slow Hoot + On?
Tue 3 Nov / 19:30 / £7
Dead Slow Hoot are an ever evolving, ever experimenting outfit whose soaring indie rock twists and turns in ways you never quite expect, built around the singular songwriting chops of frontman Hugo Lynch. Their 2025 album, Orbits Intervened, was one of our favourites of last year and we can't wait to hear what they've been working on since.
They're joined by On?, feauring members of Duds, Humint and Plastic Gift, drawing on inspiration by way of The Cars, Thin Lizzy and Weezer.
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Rock N Roll Book Club: Miki Berenyi
Thu 19 Nov / 19:00 / £14.79
Rock & Roll Book Club returns to the Ivy House in Nunhead with a very special guest, as Miki Berenyi reveals the highs and lows of navigating the madness of the 90's music industry.
Formed in 1988, Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant and creative periods in UK music. Now, Miki Berenyi tells all.
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Pink Moon Rising
Tue 24 Nov / 19:30 / £15
A live show centred around Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, performed in full with storytelling and background woven throughout the performance, followed by a second set featuring original material inspired by the same musical world. Performed by singer-songwriter Alex Lewis.
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Mildred
Sat 28 Nov / 16:00 + 19:30 / £13.75
Evening show sold out. Matinee on sale now.
Presented by Bird On The Wire.
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Sheepish
Thu 3 Dec / 19:30 / £8
A special night at The Ivy House, Nunhead to celebrate the release of Sheepish's new single 10,000 Bones.
Sheepish - awkward post-punk and experimental pop
Willah - synth-pop meets hypnotic grooves and falsetto vocals
Marsupial Soup - hazy, dreamy, whimsical indie rock
Angel Parker - beautifully written folk with razor-sharp lyrics and ethereal vocals

