April 2026 - 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...

Deptford May Day Festival and Jack in the Green 2026

Apr

2026

Deptford is bringing in the May this year with Full Bloom, a weekend music and beer festival: 'Led by Villages Brewery and a network of local venues, Deptford in Full Bloom brings together live music, folk sessions, DJs, zine fairs, art exhibitions, and pop-ups across the neighbourhood. Expect everything from open mic nights and jazz ...

Goldsmiths occupation against new round of cuts

Apr

2026

Students at Goldsmiths University of London have occupied the college library in New Cross in protest against another round of cuts threatening the jobs of hundreds of staff (academic and professional services) and leaving the future of some courses in doubt.As the occupiers have noted, 'Goldsmiths is a microcosm of the decimation of Higher Education, ...

“New Cross Hell on Earth”

Apr

2026

Ludicrous rant going round on line from a far right wannabe influencer who apparently commutes by train into New Cross from Kent and then gets the bus somewhere. I'm not going to name her as these shameless grifters rely on publicity, but here's a flavour: 'you have never known hell on earth until you have stepped ...

The Pogues on HMS Belfast, 1985

Apr

2026

In 1985, the Pogues launched their great second album 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' with a party on HMS Belfast, the retired Royal Navy ship permanently moored between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. All of this was in keeping with the nautical theme for the album, the sleeve of which features Theodore Géricault's painting 'The Raft ...

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2026

Apr

2026

The 2026 New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival starts on 24 April and promises '21 events across ten days, with venues ranging from pubs to parks and from boxing gyms to churches'. Some interesting movies and venues, including 'When we were Kings' at Double Jab Boxing Club in Fordham Park and David Byrne's 'True Stories' at Piehouse ...

Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair in New Cross, April 2026

Apr

2026

Coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross next week (April 11th), the Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair'Join us for a fair celebrating feminist, queer, disabled-led and local interdisciplinary publishing, returning for its third year. Featuring 56a Infoshop, The 50-ft Press, The Alternative School of Economics, BitterSweet Review, Burley Fisher Community Press, CAMP!, Ⓐ DUDLEY Ⓔ, Em—Dash, F.A.T. Studio, ...