Independent Venue Week UK

Happy Friday ✨ The soundtrack to your weekend has been updated...👀 Check out our Official #IVW26 Playlist at the link in our bio 💛

This weeks artist sharing the three venues they love right now is the legends... 🎉 Lambrini Girls 🎉 check out slide two to see where they've chosen... #IVW26 💛

Introducing Falkirk five-piece Brògeal and rising folk singer Eve Goodman who'll be joining Nova Twins as our #IVW26 ambassadors for Scotland and Wales 📣 📣 We are over the moon to welcome them to the IVW family. 💛 Thank you to Creative Wales and Creative Scotland for helping bring this all together

Want to get a foot in the door of the music industry? The easiest door is at your local venue and volunteering during #IVW26 is a great way to make real connections. 👋
Sign up by 5th Jan by filling out our registration form - Available via the link in our bio. 💛

Kicking off our #IVW26 Tour Highlight is the superb ✨ Dream Wife and Thistle✨ . You can catch all of these artists on the road spending their week playing in independent venues for #IVW26.

It is officially ONE week until venue sign up closes. Tuesday the 9th December, save the date. 💛 #IVW26

Some lovely words from a few of our participants who attended our Bristol Soundcheck Session with the wonderful @thelastdinnerparty.bsky.social and The Prospect Building, Bristol. Huge thank you again to everyone who helped make this happen. 🎉

This weeks venue sharing a spotlight onto three artists they love right now is the amazing ✨ George Tavern ✨ swipe to see who they think you should be listening to right now...👀

Only one left week to sign up as an official #IVW26 venue. Here's some kind words from some of our venues that have taken part in the past on why they think you should get involved. 💛

What an amazing evening we had at Factory International in Manchester for our Soundcheck Session with @thelastdinnerparty.bsky.social ✨ Thank you so much to everyone who helped make the session happen. This workshop was part of Discover Creative Careers month 💛 thank you so much to everyone involved

Only 2 weeks left to sign up as an Official #IVW26 Venue.. What are you waiting for? 🙌 💛

Reminder that our shop is open and up on our website 💛 All profits go towards towards bringing you #IVW26 and supporting Independent Venues around the UK. Link is in our bio.

Introducing some of the brilliant artists that have announced their Official #IVW26 tours ✨ Grab your tickets quickly before they get snapped up 💛

This weeks artist letting us know some venues they love at the minute, is the brilliant ✨Getdown Services✨ swipe to find who they've chosen...💛 #IVW26 #ScenesNotScreens

Still unsure of wether to sign up to be an official #IVW26 venue? Hear from @the_trades_club on their experience of being part of the IVW family. 💛

Less than 3 weeks to go until sign up closes for venues to be officially part of #IVW26... Heres some more quotes from our lovely IVW family. 💛

Happy Saturday, here's some great photos from some of our IVW gigs over the years to get you in the mood for the weekend... ✨ #IVW26

RIP Mani, thank you for all the music you've brought us over the years. Through your incredible bass lines and magnetic spirit, we know for a fact, you've inspired a generation of future musicians to get up on that stage and play. 💛

Back this week with 3 artists ✨ Future Yard ✨ are loving right now... Swipe to find out who they’ve picked... 💛

As you know we've officially left Spotify and headed over to Qobuz 🎶 Check out our updated playlist featuring some amazing artists that you'll be able to catch at #IVW26 💛 #Qobuz

IVW has made the decision to leave Spotify for a number of reasons. Ultimately they do not align with our values here at IVW. We’re excited to have moved all of our playlists over to Qobuz, where artists are remunerated more generously and the quality of the music is of a higher standard. #IVW26

Only 3 weeks left to sign up as an official venue for #IVW26 ... 💛

#FanFairAlliance #FairTicketing #IVW26 #ScenesNotScreens 💛

Huge congrats to our good friend, Adam Webb, for his work bringing government legislation to stop the extortionate resale of gig tickets. Adam, who has been part of our IVW family for years and looks after our press, runs the FanFair Alliance ensuring fans get a fair deal when it comes to live music

This weeks artist letting us know some venues they love, is none other than recent BBC 6 Music's Artists of the year... Maruja 🎉 💛 #IVW26 #Maruja #ScenesNotScreens

💛 Here's some lovely quotes from some of our IVW family that have taken part over the years 💛 #IVW26 #NorwegianChurchArtsCentre #PoundArts #DocksAcademy

Afternoons at IVW Mission Control have been made so much better by endless pots of Biscuit Brew @yorkshiretea.bsky.social …. 👀☕️ #IVW26 #properbrew #properlivemusic #propervenues

With AI dominating the narrative around copyright and creativity, disrupting the careers of artists and others in the music ecosystem, we felt we wanted to redefine what AI means to us as artists, music lovers and humans. To us, it's #ActualIntelligence. 💛

Back again, this time with 3 artists ✨ Ronnie Scott's✨ are loving right now... Swipe to find out who they've chosen...🎷 💛

Have you checked out all the shows coming up? So many to chose from and still more to be added… stay tuned 🙌 #IVW26