upcoming wib events…
Saturday 1st November. 7.30pm
Live Music - Acoustic Anarchy
Support comes from Miriam Smith, who accompanies her powerful self-written songs on keyboard.
Sunday 2nd November. 2pm
Homebrew Club
Join us for waterintobeer’s homebrew club. If you brew or are interested in starting brewing, come along with a beer for the group to share and give pointers. Don’t worry if you haven’t got anything ready or haven’t even started brewing yet; you’re more than welcome. The challenge for October is to brew Great Beyond's PB&J Sour.
You can join the event here
Thursday 6th November. 7.30pm
Jazz in Brockley #12 - Koko Collective
KoKo Collective brings together the UK’s finest jazz talent for a journey through the golden eras of jazz. Led by multi-reed virtuoso Arran Kent, this all-star ensemble delivers masterful musicianship, dynamic storytelling, and irresistible swing—guaranteed to have you tapping your foot, on the edge of your seat, or even up and dancing.
“Just a little bit gorgeous and absolutely perfect!” – Sam Fraser BBC
Waged (£10.30) and low waged/ unwaged (£5.15) tickets available. Bank Card Fees are included in price.
7.30pm-10pm
Entry is £10 on the door if any spaces left. Limited to thirty tickets.
You can buy tickets here
South London's foremost literary slackers, Deserter, are to publish their third book, Deserter Stories, on Nov 4th, ruining the joke that their previous book was "the second and final book in the Deserter Trilogy".
The latest book is something a bit different: a fiction collection. Stories dealing with mortality, masculinity and outsiderness are leavened with humour and oddness, all loosely connected by South London settings.
It follows the success of Today South London, Tomorrow South London (Unbound, 2018) - Amazon Travel Best Seller and London Evening Standard Comedy Book of the Year - and 2022's hit self-help book Shirk, Rest and Play (Unbound, 2022).
In the book, a simple fool travels back in time to Camberwell to discover he remains an idiot, two brothers enjoy an unexpected and revealing day out in South Norwood, young love blossoms during a drugged-up Blackheath weekender and a publican blots out personal trauma to relive his recent past through a pub crawl of some of London's finest pubs. There are gamblers, dossers, dreamers and knob gags. Something for everyone.
What they say
"A sublime collection of tales of the sordid, sorrowful and sloshed. Perfect reading material for the corner of your favourite boozer." - Londonist
"Simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely thought-provoking," - Metro
"Deserter has brilliantly jumped two-footed into fiction. These tales and the South London characters that populate them are enchanting, challenging, disquieting... and funny." - Bruce Dessau, Beyond the Joke, London Evening Standard
"Surprisingly tender, gently humorous stories of hare-brained schemes and idleness, of loves lost and friendships forged amid the disorientating surrealism of the all-day session. Oozing lowlife charmers... " - Tony White, author of The Fountain in the Forest, Foxy-T
Saturday 22nd November. 6.30pm
BRÅK #56 – A Series of Improv Nights at waterintobeer
wib are delighted to welcome back musicians Cath Roberts, Tom Ward and Colin Webster to the shop for another night of BRÅK. Once again they’ve teamed up with different guests to bring you an evening of improvised music.
Cath Roberts and Lucia H Chung
Colin Webster and Dee Byrne
Tom Ward and Benedict Taylor
Waged (£8) and low waged/ unwaged (£5) tickets available in advance. You can buy them here
Please note bank fees are included in the ticket price.
Entry is £10 on the door
You can join the event here
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Saturday 29th November. 7.30pm
Live Music - Tom OC Wilson and Edward Randell
Tom O C Wilson
Tom O C Wilson is a London-based creator of colourful, imaginative pop music. His songs hit the sweet spot between melodic immediacy and surprise, creating an exhilarating sonic pleasure reminiscent of artists such as XTC, Joe Jackson and early Prefab Sprout.
Edward Randell
https://www.edwardrandell.com/
Edward Randell is a singer and songwriter from south London. With a warm blanket of a voice, slyly sparkling lyrics and melodies that evoke instant nostalgia, his music sounds like James Taylor and Rufus Wainwright sharing a pot of Earl Grey.
Entry is free, but please grab a ticket here to ensure being able to get in.
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Sunday 30th November. 6pm
Live Music - Malcolm Tent, False Adults! and Elena Sirett. Hosted by Tim Holehouse
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Tuesday 2nd December. 7.30pm
Book Event - The Story of the Christmas No.1 with Marc Burrows
Join award-winning author and comedian Marc Burrows for a celebration of a uniquely British tradition: The Christmas number one. Where did it come from? Why are we the only country in the whole world that actually cares about it? And can it survive in 2025?
Burrows, fresh from a critically lauded run at the Edinburgh Fringe with his show ‘The Britpop Hour’, celebrates the publication of his new book, The Story of The Christmas No.1: Mistletoe & Vinyl, though McNidder & Grace, with a specially-written stand-up talk, complete with songs, covering everything from Bing to Blobby, from Slade to Sausage Rolls, from feeding the world to Killing In The Name. It’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaaas!
Marc Burrows is an author, culture journalist and comedian based in Bristol. His biography of Sir Terry Pratchett won the 2021 Locus Award in the non-fiction category, and he has since written acclaimed books on Manic Street Preachers, David Bowie & Marc Bolan’s sixties friendship and Nirvana, as well as turning his Terry Pratchett biography into a critically acclaimed stand up show, which has toured globally, selling 15,000 tickets and counting. He writes regularly for the Independent, Big Issue, New Statesman and The Guardian, among many others, and as a musician played bass in the cult punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, touring the world and playing at Glastonbury, Download, Latitude and Bestival. His latest stand up show, The Britpop Hour, played to multiple rave reviews and sell-out audiences at the 2025 Edinbugh Fringe, and he will be touring it in 2026. He has been obsessed with Christmas music since he was a small boy. www.marcburrows.co.uk
Free Entry
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Saturday 20th December. 7pm
The Daniel Birchall Bottle Share #5 Christmas Special