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The Sound Lounge Fundraising Prize Draw
Sutton, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
To raise money to help keep The Sound Lounge grassroots music venue open we have some great prizes you are in for a chance of winning
The Prizes (details below)
* WIN A PERSONAL TOUR OF BRITISH GROVE STUDIOS BY GUY FLETCHER!
* WIN TWO TICKETS FOR EVERY GIG AT THE SOUND LOUNGE FOR A YEAR!
*WIN A SOUND LOUNGE GUITAR!
* A SPACE ON THE FOLKESTONE SONGWRITERS RETREAT - INCL. 2 NIGHTS AT VOCO HOTEL (BREAKFAST INCLUDED), 3 DAY RESIDENTIAL PASS - WORTH £600
*WIN A SUPER DELUXE ‘CALLING ALL NATIONS’ FAN HISTORY OF INXS, SIGNED BY THE BAND, PLUS A 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION OF ‘LISTEN LIKE THIEVES’!
*WIN YOUR VERY OWN RECORDING SESSION AT THE SOUND LOUNGE!
WIN A PERSONAL TOUR OF BRITISH GROVE STUDIOS BY GUY FLETCHER!
Here’s another unbelievable entry in our Sound Lounge Prize Draw. We’re offering you the chance to win free entry for two people to every gig at our beloved Sutton venue for a whole year! It’s a prize worth thousands of pounds and it could be yours for a £5 ticket - and of course you can buy as many of those as you want, to increase your chances of winning, and to help our much-loved grassroots venue and community space to survive and thrive. If you’re the lucky winner, you and a friend can be on the guest list for every gig we host for an entire 12 months. Free entry to every Sound Lounge gig for a year could be yours for £5! Buy as many tickets as you like below, and good luck.
Any devotee of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler (and of course that’s millions of people worldwide) is going to be knocked out by this entry in the Sound Lounge Prize Draw. Our good friend, former Straits keyboard player Guy Fletcher - Mark’s right-hand-man on every record and tour he’s done over the last 40 years - is donating the opportunity for you to win your own personal tour of British Grove Studios in west London, for yourself and one guest.
As every MK fan knows, this is the world-famous studio that Mark and his team built in 2005. It’s not only been the birthplace of all of Mark’s solo albums from 2007’s ‘Kill To Get Crimson’ onwards, but the recording facility of choice for many other of the world's greatest artists. Thanks to impeccable word-of-mouth recommendations, albums which carry the British Grove birthmark include the
Rolling Stones; ‘Blue & Lonesome’ (2016), The Who's ‘WHO’ (2019), Eric Clapton's I Still Do’ (2016) and titles by Adele, The 1975, Jamie Cullum, and many more. It’s also one of the few UK studios capable of hosting orchestral performances for film
scores, such as Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ (2013) and Christopher McQuarrie’s ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ (2023).
We will make arrangements with the winner to fix a mutually convenient date on which Guy will meet you and your guest at British Grove, and show you its two elegant studios and remarkable collection of both vintage and state-of-the-art recording equipment. Mark always says that he’s never had a bad day at British Grove, and yours will be one to remember forever! Read more about where the magic happens: https://www.britishgrovestudios.com The personal tour of British Grove by Guy Fletcher could be yours for £5! Buy as many tickets as you like below, and good luck.
WIN TWO TICKETS FOR EVERY GIG AT THE SOUND LOUNGE FOR A YEAR!
Here’s another unbelievable entry in our Sound Lounge Prize Draw. We’re offering you the chance to win free entry for two people to every gig at our beloved Sutton venue for a whole year! It’s a prize worth thousands of pounds and it could be yours for a £5 ticket - and of course you can buy as many of those as you want, to increase your chances of winning, and to help our much-loved grassroots venue and community space to survive and thrive. If you’re the lucky winner, you and a friend can be on the guest list for every gig we host for an entire 12 months. Free entry to every Sound Lounge gig for a year could be yours for £5! Buy as many tickets as you like below, and good luck.
WIN A SOUND LOUNGE GUITAR!
Yes, we’re offering you the chance to win this gorgeous guitar, complete with our famous logo on the headstock! It’s a custom-built Frankenstein Sound Lounge guitar made by master guitar luthier David Bourne (Bourne Guitars) and Keiron Marshall from the Sound Lounge. The guitar is made from a light Alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, anodised hardware and a super-sassy pickup selection including a P90 in the neck position, a custom single pickup sized humbucker in the middle and a hotrail on the bridge position. The Sound Lounge guitar could be yours for £5! Buy as many tickets as you like below, and good luck.
* A SPACE ON THE FOLKESTONE SONGWRITERS RETREAT - INCL. 2 NIGHTS AT VOCO HOTEL (BREAKFAST INCLUDED), 3 DAY RESIDENTIAL PASS - WORTH £600 - DONATED BY THE FOLKESTONE SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL.
WIN A SUPER DELUXE ‘CALLING ALL NATIONS’ FAN HISTORY OF INXS, SIGNED BY THE BAND, PLUS A 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION OF ‘LISTEN LIKE THIEVES’!
Here’s an amazing entry in the Sound Lounge Prize Draw for any fan of INXS. It’s a sealed copy of the Super Deluxe Edition Book ‘Calling All Nations: A Fan History of INXS’ - limited to 300 copies worldwide, retailing at £400 and signed by Gary, Andrew, Jon, Tim and Kirk! It’s a visual and written history of INXS curated from the contributions of hundreds of their fans, as well as memories and archive material from the band themselves. Watch the unboxing video for this incredible set here: https://bit.ly/3J6xA6U
PLUS the winning entry will also receive a copy of the new 1LP, 3CD 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the band’s 1985 classic ‘Listen Like Thieves’,
featuring the new 2025 stereo mix of the album by Giles Martin & Paul Hicks; a trove of previously unreleased sessions tracks, outtakes and demos; a rare BBC live concert of INXS’ 1986 concert at the Royal Albert Hall; and extensive new liner notes, featuring new interviews with the whole band, by renowned journalist and Sound Lounge patron Paul Sexton.
Here’s what’s in the remarkable ‘Calling All Nations’ package:
* RED EDITION HARDBACK, HAND SIGNED BY GARY, ANDREW, JON, TIM AND KIRK (EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUPER DELUXE EDITION) * NUMBERED “CALLING ALL NATIONS” ART PRINT (EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUPER DELUXE EDITION) * NUMBERED CALLING ALL NATIONS TOUR” ART PRINT (EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUPER DELUXE EDITION) * INXS EMBROIDERED LOGO PATCH MADE FROM BANDS DRESSING ROOM CURTAIN (EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUPER DELUXE EDITION) * NUMBERED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY – SUPER DELUXE EDITION OF 300* 68-PAGE INXS GIGOGRAPHY * RE-PRESSED 7INCH VINYL INTERVIEW DISC FROM 1988 * SET OF ALBUM POSTCARDS * REPRODUCED FAN CLUB LETTERS * SET OF KICK GUITAR PICKS * SET OF POLAROIDS FROM WEMBLEY STADIUM SHOW, JULY 1991 * KICK AFTERSHOW PASS AND LANYARD * SET OF INXS PIN BADGES * CALLING ALL NATIONS KEYRING
The Super Deluxe ‘Calling All Nations’ AND Deluxe ‘Listen Like Thieves’ could be yours for £5! Buy as many tickets as you like below, and good luck.
WIN YOUR VERY OWN RECORDING SESSION AT THE SOUND LOUNGE!
This money-can’t-buy prize in the Sound Lounge Prize Draw takes place at our famous venue itself. For just a £5 ticket (buy more to increase your chances), you could win your very own recording session at the Sound Lounge, produced by venue co-owner, sound engineer, top guitarist and AMA UK Instrumentalist of the Year Keiron Marshall. The recording session will run across six hours, to include a break, with Keiron, whose work with fellow AMA Award-winner Hannah White and with his own Blues Matters band has won national and international acclaim. He has also produced and engineered artists in the UK and US, and recorded award-winning songs which have received airplay across Europe and America. The winner will leave with the results of their recording in a suitable format. A personal recording session at the Sound Lounge could be yours for £5! Buy as many tickets as you like below, feel free to buy more in the accompanying draw for another session, and good luck.
The Cause
The Sound Lounge is grassroots music venue in Sutton, south London. We host gigs between 3 and 7 nights every single week throughout the year for hundreds of bands & artists, and every year thousands of people come through our doors to enjoy the music. It is totally magical.
However, the grassroots music sector is a sector in crisis. In this country we are losing venues at a rate of 2-a-week. The costs involved in putting on gigs are huge, and there is no return. We have to cover a bookings team, promo, engineers, expensive license-fees and maintenance of expensive equipment....all of that to take a risk on music that most people haven't heard of yet.
The irony is that once artists get beyond the grassroots sector, there is massive money. Arenas and stadiums are making £millions in profit from artists who have developed their craft and grown their audience in venues like ours.
We are working with Music Venue Trust (MVT) on a national campaign to secure a £1 levy from each stadium & arena ticket sold as an investment which is funnelled back into the grassroots sector to prevent more venues closing.
In the meantime we have our own little campaign. We are doing everything we can to stay open, basically! We know that the demand is there. Our audience numbers are rising, not falling. We get almost daily feedback about the difference we make to people's lives. We run a load of workshops and training and community events in the daytime to bring people together and we know we make a difference. Which means everything. It's what this has always been about.
Thank you so much for supporting us! We are so grateful for our ever-growing community of followers, because it is people's care and involvement that makes this place so special!!! THANK YOU x
How to Enter
We didn't want to set up a standard crowdfunder without feeling like we were giving something back to people. So we have pulled together some prizes to run a raffle-style campaign which anyone can get involved in.
These prize draws are going to be in a series, and this is #1. You can enter for as little as £5. When the time comes to draw out names, if you win we'll contact you so you can choose the prize you're after first to make sure you're coming away with what you want.
Entry options - you can enter for £5 for one entry. £10 will get you three ticket entries :)
This project successfully funded on 12th September 2025