Demerara Records

June sees two Demerara Records showcase gigs you won’t want to miss. On 6th June it’s Vanishing Point @ The Ivy House and on 20th June it’s Demerara Records Showcase @ Cafe 1001.

Vanishing Point on Thursday 6th June at The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead, Peckham, London SE15 3BE features three Demerara Records artists – Cholly  Josie & Environmental Sound Foundation – plus talented guest Jaffro. Doors open at 7.45PM. Tickets are £6 advance or £8 on the door. Get tickets here.

Demerara Records Showcase on Thursday 20th June at Cafe 1001, opposite Rough Trade East, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL features Cholly & Environmental Sound Foundation along with the amazing Blu:m & Pixi Ink. Doors open at 7.30PM. Tickets are £6 advance or £8 on the door. Get tickets here.

Two hotly tipped young Demerara Records artists will play Vanishing Point on 6th June. Cholly and our newest signing Josie will both appear at the live-streamed event taking place at the Ivy House in Peckham.

In the meantime don’t forget about our electronic ambient and experimental special Vanishing Point on 2nd May at the Ivy House. We are there on the first Thursday of every month so come and hang out in the otherworldly Twin Peaks Roadhouse atmosphere of London’s most beautiful venue. Get tickets here.

The next Vanishing Point @ The Ivy House is on Thursday 2nd May. It is a special electronic ambient & experimental music night; a real one to remember.

On the bill: 2 artists who record for Linear Obsessional; BBC 6 Music Freak Zone-featured Smallhaus & Linear Obsessional founder and composer-artist Richard Sanderson plus amazing young electronic art music duo Small Loris and exciting new experimental trio HMS Loss.

The gig will also be live streamed on the internet by bndr Music. Vanishing Point is becoming one of the key events in the live music calendar in South East London. We are here on the first Thursday of every month. Come and hang out and if you are a band or artist talk to us about whether you might be right for us to put on at a future gig.

Thursday 4th April saw another fantastic Vanishing Point gig at the beautiful Ivy House in Nunhead, SE London with Luvia; Yvonne Hercules & Environmental Sound Foundation.

Pics by Paul F Cook

See the night in pics at our Facebook page. The next Vanishing Point is on 2nd May at the Ivy House.

Thursday 4th April is the date of the next Vanishing Point @ The Ivy House. And it’s a pretty special one celebrating talented young women in new music.

But if you are not able to make the gig in person bndr Music are live streaming it on the internet.

In the meantime you can check out videos of new singles by Luvia and Yvonne Hercules and listen to Environmental Sound Foundation. Hope to see you at the beautiful Ivy House on Thursday 4th April.

Neil March‘s book The Independent Sector (2019) is now available in Paperback from Amazon. The book is an easy-to-read guide to all you need to know about operating within the independent music industry.

The book takes you through release & distribution; publishing; royalties; management; agents; live music; radio promo; music press; streaming & playlists; contracts; social media & lots more. 

We are very excited to announce that Vanishing Point will move from being every other month to the first Thursday of every month at the beautiful Ivy House in Nunhead from 4th April 2019.

Demerara Records head & composer Neil March explained: ‘It is still our intention to alternate between Vanishing Point and Vanishing Point Solo but the difference is that, from April, all the gigs will be at the Ivy House where the facilities are so good and our relationship with the venue is first class. In fairness our relationship with the Cafe of Good Hope is great too but there are practical reasons why it is not ideal for what we are trying to do, particularly as a long term project’.

The first gig in the new monthly series will be the one featuring Luvia, Yvonne Hercules and Environmental Sound Foundation. Details can be found here.

Paul Cook’s fantastic review in Joyzine of Vanishing Point @ The Ivy House (7th February) features the last ever gig by Rothko along with Environmental Sound Foundation and Handaöline. Read it here.

Composer and Demerara Records head Neil March has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts.

Neil told demerararecords.com ‘I am deeply honoured and I hope I can make a valid contribution to the work of this extraordinary and historic organisation’.

Demerara Records will be pursuing a new model for future releases on the label. From now on every release will have a Bandcamp Pre-Release Date. For the ensuing

two-month period it will be available exclusively as a download from our Bandcamp page.

After two months the Worldwide Digital Release Date will kick in and it will then be available to download or stream via all established digital platforms. If the Bandcamp sales are sufficient we will produce a CD version which will only be on sale at live events.