The Ivy House 10th Birthday Bash All-Dayer
Sun Sep 24 2023
To celebrate 10 years of community ownership, The Ivy House is proud to present a series of shows highlighting some of our favourite artists and friends from around South London and beyond.
On Saturday 23rd September we’re closing out the Summer with a massive all-dayer to mark this auspicious occasion, helped along by some of our favourite acts and pals from around the city.
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BLOOD WIZARD
Straddling a divide between spacious rural folk and urban post-punk claustrophobia, Blood Wizard’s debut single Car Crash, released late 2019, was a prelude to what is shaping up to be a true blossoming of the song writing abilities of Nottingham-based musician Cai Burns. Although also a member of Nottingham’s punk trio Kagoule (Alcopop! / Earache Records), Blood Wizard arrives with no fixed direction – instead it offers a platform for Burns to explore himself as an artist beyond boundaries and pre-conceptions. It’s a project that’s bubbled up from within, always there in his writing for other projects but now emerging fully formed in its own entity. At its roots Blood Wizard is steeped in the warm familiarity of folk music; yet within its textures, deft melodies and quick witted storytelling, there’s an atypicality to its song structures, and a tightening and loosening – like breathing – between harder-edged sounds and more softly acoustic wanderings.
SUEP
SUEP return to our stage armed with their unique brand of “car boot sale pop”, after releasing their album Shop at the beginning of this year. While the group includes members from acts such as The Tubs, Porridge Radio and Garden Centre, they distil and entirely distinct hip-shaking sound in this formation. Rooted in wonky noises and delicious tweaker rhythms, we’ve had the pleasure of dancing the night away with this quintet many a time before here in the Ivy House ballroom, and we can’t wait to do it all over again.
LEATHER.HEAD
Sweltering post-jazz-punk that will tear the seams of your shirt apart. Leather.head existed solely as a blink-and-you’ll-miss-them live act until the release of 2022 single ‘Hordes’, which saw new eyes drawn to the already fine-tuned machine the group is known to be. As just as they are noisy members are involved and run the DIY music and activism outfit Solidarity Tapes, who stand for, amongst other things, migrant justice and trans liberation. A perfect example of power in community, we can’t wait to share the room once more.
BAGGIO
Something of an urban legend, Baggio have managed to write the anthems of a generation before even getting them down on record. Principal songwriter Ben Wyborn presents musings on South London life, love, the day-to-day beauty and filth we all experience but are perhaps in too much of a rush to take in. Whether solo or armed with a 9-strong band, Baggio present blistering escape and tender reflection that spans from americana to diy-pop.
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Doors: 17:00
Music Starts: 18:00
Music Ends: 23:00