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Independent Label Market: Summer Edition Sat 16th July @ Coal Drops Yard

• 18th May 2022

Summer is coming and that can only mean one thing, Indie labels all over London will be gathering together their finest musical fare for Independent Label Market: London!  The annual Summer Market is in the calendar for Saturday 16th July at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross with a super hot line up of labels including [PIAS], 4AD, BBE, Bella Union, Big Dada, Brownswood, Dirty Hit, Erased Tapes, Ghostly, Heavenly, Late Night Tales, Matador, Mexican Summer, Mukatsuku, Mute, Ninja Tune, Nonclassical, Partisan, Rough Trade, Secretly Canadian, Sunday Best & many more.

This year ILM will be introducing stalls from artists and makers including Colourbox Studio, Dan Jamieson, East London Printmakers, Hand Jazz and Kam Creates.

As always, ILM will be joined by the excellent London Brewers’ Market showcasing the best of London’s lively, diverse and exciting independent brewing scene including Against the Grain Cider, Brick Brewery, Five Points Brewing Co, Friendship Adventure, Gosnells Mead, London Beer Lab, Old Street Brewery, Standard Brew Co plus more to be announced! Sign up via this link to get a 10% discount on all drinks at the London Brewers’ Market throughout the event. 

Partnerships & Initiatives

The summer event will be soundtracked by ILM curated DJ sets from artists, labels and friends throughout the day culminating with a special after party at Spiritland. For the ILM Summer event, the wildly popular Spiritland Soundsystem will be making its return. An imposing presence inspired by the heavyweight UK funk and soul soundsystems of the 1980s, the system is a mix of vintage speakers and modern digital amplification. 

Other ILM friends and partners present on the day include much loved bi monthly independent music magazine Loud and Quiet and the environmental pressure group, Music Declares Emergency who will be presenting their Music Industry Climate Packs: accessible guides to greening the music industry – for businesses, artists and fans. Downloadable now from www.musicdeclares.net.  The AIM Climate Action Group (formed by Association of Independent Music’s members) will have a stall at ILM for the first time. Labels and creatives can find out what support is available to run their business and release music in a more eco-friendly way. They can find out how to measure and reduce carbon emissions, how to support artists to speak up on climate issues and how to use their own platforms to raise awareness. AIM and the AIM CAG also initiated the #MusicClimatePact through which the independent music community, major music groups and others have committed to working together to address our biggest environmental impacts.

There will be a fundraiser at this event for the Disasters Emergency Committee with exclusive merch available from Awesome Merch. Market goers can buy totes, stickers, pin badges and prints designed by graphic artist Dan Wilson on a pay what you can basis with all profits going to the charity’s Ukraine Appeal.

LINE UP OF LABELS AND PARTNERS ANNOUNCED FOR ILM SUMMER 2022 MARKET

[PIAS]

4AD

ATA

AD 93

Airbag      

Apron

BBE Music

Blitzcat

Because

Bella Union

Big Dada

Brace Yourself

Brownswood

Burning Witches

Cherry Red

Chess Club

Clap Trap

Clay Pipe  

Cold Blow

Counter Intuitive

Dead Oceans

Dirty Hit

Do Your Best

Drag City

Dynamite Cuts

Earth

Erased Tapes

Everything Sucks

Far Out

Fat Possum

Fika

Fire

First Word

Gare du Nord

Ghostly

Hand In Hive

Heavenly

Independent Musicians Collective

Jagjaguwar

Kit

Late Night Tales

LTR

London Recordings

Matador

Material Music

Mexican Summer

Mukatsuku

Mute

Music Declares Emergency

Neolithic

Ninja Tune

Numero Group

nonclassical

OTOROKU

Partisan 

Precious Recordings of London

Psyché Tropes

Riddim Chango

Rough Trade

SA Recording

Sad Club

Secretly Canadian

Scratchy

Skep Wax

Slowdance

Slowfoot

Sonic Cathedral

Spinout Nuggets

Spiritmuse

State51

Sunday Best

TOT TAYLOR / TheCAMPUS

Time Capsule

Touchin Bass

Tru Thoughts

untitled (recs)

Upset The Rhythm

Wah Wah 45s

Wallen Bink

WIAIWYA

Independent Label Market:

http://www.independentlabelmarket.com

https://www.facebook.com/independentlabelmarket

http://twitter.com/IndieLabelMkt

https://www.instagram.com/indielabelmkt

London Facebook Event Page: http://bit.ly/ILMSUMMER2022

AIM

http://www.aim.org.uk

https://www.facebook.com/aim.music

London Brewers’ Market

https://www.facebook.com/londonbrewersmarket

https://twitter.com/LondonBrewMkt
https://fivepointsbrewing.co.uk/events

https://www.instagram.com/londonbrewmkt