London Independent Label Market finally returns to the capital

London Independent Label Market (ILM) is to return this winter. The market will celebrate over a decade of pop-ups aimed at the lucrative DJ and vinyl collector market. 

Fitting of the 10-year-milestone, ILM will base itself at Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross on the 27th of November. Live DJ sets will be performed, throughout the day, with the highly revered afterparty set for Spiritland once the stalls close. 

4AD, Bella Union, Late Night Tales, Erased Tapes, Black Beacon Sound, Brownswood, Claremont 56, Mute, PIAS, and Secretly lead the imprints confirmed. 

Manchester is the addition to the schedule. ILM will debut in Manchester on the 5th of December as part of Tim Burgess’ Vinyl Adventures Record Fair. Live performances, interviews and keynotes are all on the programme. Meanwhile, the market itself centres on The Royal Exchange. 

Piccadilly Records, Mars Tapes, Vinyl Resting Place, Clampdown Records, Eastern Bloc Records, Vinyl Revival, and Bury-based Wax and Beans are the shops involved. 

“We’d been wanting to come to Manchester for a long time and for one reason or another had never quite found the right time or place to make it happen,”| said ILM co-founder Joe Daniel. “When Tim asked us to be part of Vinyl Adventures we leapt at the chance, it’s a perfect fit.”

FULL LABEL LIST FOR LONDON – WINTER 2021 

42’s | 4AD | AD93 | Airbag | Africa Seven | Analogue Trash Apron | Band On The Wall BBE | Be With | Bella Union | Biophon | Black Beacon Sound BLBX | Blitzcat | Breakdown Press Brownswood | Castles In Space Cherry Red | Claptrap | Claremont 56 | Cold Bow | Distiller | Drag City, Inc. | Dynamite Cuts | Earth | East London Printmakers Erased Tapes | Far Out | Fierce Panda | Fire | First Word | Forever Living Original Full Time Hobby | Gare du Nord | Happy Robots | Hassle | Hospital | Kit | Late Night Tales | Leng | LEX | Memphis Industries Menace | Mexican Summer Mukatsuku | Mute | Nothing Fancy | Non-Classical | None More | On The Corner | One Little Independent Partisan | PIAS | Polarface | PRAH | SA Recordings | Sad Club | Scratchy | Secretly | Skep Wax | Slowfoot | Sonic Cathedral | Spacetalk | Speedy Wunderground Spiritmuse | The Get Down | Transgressive | untitled (recs) | Velocity Press | Vintage League Music