October 2023 - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Music Monday: Laura Misch ‘Sample the Sky’

Oct

2023

East Dulwich-raised Laura Misch has been marking the release of her new album, Sample the Sky, with some interesting local events in the last few weeks. There was a sound walk in Sydenham Woods, an event in the Brockwell Park greenhouses and, on 21 October 2023, a 'cloud bath' in the old waiting room above ...

The Tidal Year

Oct

2023

Freya Bromley's 'The Tidal Year: a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood' sees the author travelling around Britain's tidal pools in the aftermath of her brother's untimely death. Along the way she visits some of my favourite swimming spots including Walpole Bay in Margate, Clevedon Marine Lake (on the Severn Estuary) and Dancing Ledge in ...

Just Stop Oil Meeting SE14

Oct

2023

Tuesday 24th October 2023 at Avalon Cafe, Surrey Canal Road, SE14

Cider with Joyce

Oct

2023

Delighted to have the first pint to be served of the new 'Joy is an Orchard' cider at Joyce in Brockley tonight, blended by them at Ross on Wye cider.

Peckham Taser Death Protest

Oct

2023

A demonstration took place on Saturday 30th September to protest against the death of Zodoq Obatolah, a 52 year old man who died after being tasered by police in Peckham earlier this year. People marched from the Rye Hill Estate, where the man died in April apparently after falling from a balcony following being tasered. ...

Forthcoming Events including Cemetery Tour Sunday 22nd October at 2pm and Remembrance Sunday Event 12th November

Oct

2023

Next Open Committee Meeting Saturday 21st October at 2pm. The next open committee meeting will be on Saturday 21st October at 2pm in the Chapel. We still need members to join the committee, either as officers or committee members, for the group to function in accordance with the constitution. The tasks are not onerous and will ...

La Discotheque/Bouncing Ball/Kisses/Chicago’s in Peckham

Oct

2023

La Discotheque in Soho's Wardour Street opened in around 1961 and was perhaps the first place to use 'discotheque' as the name for a club in the English speaking world (there had been clubs of that name in Paris since the 1940s). The Soho club earned some notoriety as the 'Soho nerve centre' of 'the ...