Cavendish Arms

About Cavendish Arms

Known locally as 'The Cav', an eccentrically furnished Stockwell pub whose back room runs live music, comedy, cabaret and burlesque most nights of the week.

The Cavendish Arms, known to regulars simply as 'The Cav', furnishes its front room like a well-worn sitting room, all mismatched armchairs and kitsch ornaments, and backs it with a proper 1970s-style beer garden. What sets it apart is the back room, which runs live music, stand-up comedy, cabaret and burlesque several nights a week, punching well above its weight as a small arts venue for a corner of Stockwell with little else in the way of nightlife. It has become something of a local secret among south London's alternative arts and comedy circuit, the kind of venue people discover through word of mouth rather than a listings page.