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Pub open as a 100% pub tonight, Friday, by the way. Great beer, yummy food (from the new menu), eclectic playlist and fires (in fireplaces!).

Sat 14th March at The Ivy House - fun, informal and eclectic - blues, roots, folk, 80s remixes, indie, alternative 60s, soul, funk, psych, strange jazz, lo-fi, electronica, disco, post-punk and new wave, northern soul, 50s rock and roll, pop and more! Kicking off at 3pm with @Bluesnightorg. Also featuring Dr J from My Awesome Mixtape, El Guapo, Buffet Style DJs, HillBilly, Alternative Disco UK, DJ Slowly, "John Peel Vinyl Nights", Colm and Leanne...and perhaps others. Ending at midnight. 40 Stuart Road, SE15 3BE

More details soon. Tickets here https://www.wegottickets.com/event/311225!

Yup, Friday 16th January at the Ivy House it's a big, fat 100% pub...mmmmm.....pub.....

Sound check sound top-hole

Hotly-tipped Canadian singer-songwriter Piper Hayes is playing the only London gig of her current tour this Wednesday 7th at The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, SE15 3BE. She's fabulous and free from around 8pm. Youtube footage here...

Yes indeed.

We've a 100% pub this evening, Friday, exuding festiveness with log fires, mulled ciders and wines, splendid ales, delicious food (till 9.30), great music playlists and bonhomie. Bar till midnight. Saturday evening we welcome back The (dance-tastic) Hit Men, supported by The Rock Choir, for a free evening of top party music, from 8pm. Sunday we're doing double jazz - The New JazzMags (Blue Note Groove Specialists) from 2pm Ivy House time, and The Neighbours Trio - John Blease, Arthur Lea and Martin Slade on drums, organ and guitar respectively, 7 till 8. Sunday roasts 12 till 4 and normal menu 6 till 8.

Tonight - on stage at around 8.30pm Ivy House time - two 45 minute sets. More band info here...http://yapa.dibim.net/Fichiers/Pages/musique_A.htm

We're really looking forward to welcoming these guys this Friday at The Ivy House - here's their excellent version of The Doors' Break On Through

Timings for this evening... Doors around 7.30 Ashley Reaks - 8.30/45 Dave Formula & The Finks - 9.30/45 Music End - 11 Bar closes - 12 Everybody goes home - (before) 1am

Ten pound tickets likely to be available on the day - 7.30 doors

Support conformed from musician, artist and promising ex-cricketer Ashley Reaks http://www.ashleyreaks.com

Come down to The pumpkin and cobweb festooned Ivy House this evening for ghostly films and tales, starting from around 8pm (tomorrow night already accounted for!)

Former Magazine and Visage man Dave Formula is back with his current band The Finks - the finest groove organ, psychedelic soul funksters in the land. Tickets ?10 here - https://www.wegottickets.com/location/2255 - or email [email protected] to arrange to buy paper tickets without the 10% booking fee! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Formula https://www.facebook.com/daveformulafinks

Great beer, lovely food, legendary playlist, shimmery stage, bonhomie - free all evening until midnight! (food till 9.30)

All the way from Lake Zurich to Nunhead (or Peckham Rye or Newlands, depending what one believes to be the true location of 40 Stuart Road) a one-off free gig by highly innovative Swiss guitarist Attila Vural. Free from around 8pm Ivy House time. Here he is on http://www.youtube.com/user/lavural

Splendid duo Mark Harper and Jo Axton (also know as Myal and Tabby) hit the hallowed Ivy House stage with guitar, mandolin, fiddle, stomp box, two fine voices and great songs. Free from about 8.30 till about 10.45.

Friday 11th July ? Igor Outkine?s One Man Band (on his wondrous Tardis-like accordion) presents Dance Hits of The XX Century. Two sets starting around 8.30pm and finishing by 11pm. FREE. Here's Igor performing with Marc Almond a few years ago...

Tickets available on the door this evening - ?7. Doors some time between 7.30 and 8pm. Here's another taste of Mikey and "The Scene", followed by a trip down memory lane (for a select few) in the form of David Devant & His Spirit Wife...

A little bit about support act Emily Capell and her blues-infected indie pop here - http://emilycapellmusic.weebly.com/index.html

"A short show with possibly a large interval with The King from Beijing, in which he will encourage the audience to unleash the Elvis within. Winner of the Weakest Link Elvis special! Over 400 shows at Gracelands Palace Chinese Elvis restaurant on the Old Kent Road (deceased)! As seen at Latitude Festival! Afterwards: DVDs for sale (in car park)". Free, 8pm. The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, London SE15 3BE

Chinese Elvis http://www.chineseelvis.com/ says this..."A short show with possibly a large interval with The King from Beijing, in which he will encourage the audience to unleash the Elvis within. Winner of the Weakest Link Elvis special! Over 400 shows at Gracelands Palace Chinese Elvis restaurant on the Old Kent Road (deceased)! As seen at Latitude Festival! Afterwards: DVDs for sale (in car park)" 8pm and free. 40 Stuart Road, SE15 3BE

Mikey Georgeson is the frontman of the wonderful David Devant & His Spirit Wife, at one point described by The Sunday Times as the "future of rock and roll". Whilst still being the future of rock and roll with one musical outfit, Mikey has made a fabulous album of "English pop gems" with his other one, Mikey Georgeson an the Civilised Scene, and we're delighted to have them playing at The Ivy House on Friday 4th July. Support from Emily Capell and The Three Petes Suite. Tickets are ?7. Wegottickets link http://www.wegottickets.com/event/278193. Or email [email protected] for a direct paper ticket. Here's our favourite from the album - "The Curtains of Zagra" -

Rock, soul and funk. Dancing shoes advised. From around 8pm. Free The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road SE15 3BE