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...
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All Together Now – 1978 Deptford anti-racist festival

Jan

4

2026

All Together Now was an anti-racist festival held in Deptford in April 1978.  According to a contemporary report: ''All Together Now' was the name of ALCARAF's (All Lewisham  Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) multicultural festival which ran for three Saturdays before the local authority elections. A Community resource centre, the Albany, and a community theatre the Combination ...
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1978 · Albany (Deptford) · fascists and anti-fascists · Transpontine

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...
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Albany (Deptford) · Ambulance Station · miners strike · Old Kent Road · Test Dept · Thames Poly · Transpontine · Woolwich

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...
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Albany (Deptford) · Ambulance Station · miners strike · Old Kent Road · Test Dept · Thames Poly · Transpontine · Woolwich

Miners strike benefits 1984: Deptford, Woolwich, Old Kent Road with Test Dept, The Mekons and more

Sep

27

2025

There were many fundraising gigs in support of the miners during their 1984/85 strike, including across SE London. One of the most musically significant took place at the Albany in Deptford in September 1984 where Test Dept played with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir - starting a strong relationship between the two that led ...
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Albany (Deptford) · Ambulance Station · miners strike · Old Kent Road · Test Dept · Thames Poly · Transpontine · Woolwich

Deptford Literature Festival 2025

Mar

22

2025

Plenty of interesting talks, workshops and other events in this year's Deptford Literature Festival including 'Lewisham Lyricists' at the Albany on 28th March. Anja Ngozi, Blakie, Belinda Zhawi and more in an night curated by music writer Emma Warren. 
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Albany (Deptford) · Transpontine

Music Monday: Loose Talk TV (1983) – when Tom Waits, Grace Jones and Sade touched down in Deptford

Mar

10

2025

Loose Talk was a short lived Channel 4 music/arts and chat show that ran for two series in 1983. It was recorded in front of a live audience at the Albany theatre in Deptford. Generally critically panned at the time it did bring a range of interesting people to touch down in SE8 with guests ...
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Albany (Deptford) · Grace Jones · Music Monday · Sade · Transpontine

Tales from a Disappearing City – Uncle G on Woolwich B-Boys and Acid House

Feb

23

2024

'Tales from a Disappearing City' is a great podcast with Controlled Weirdness interviewing people about their untold subcultural stories from his SE16 batcave. The latest one is a SE London cracker featuring Uncle G, also known as Urban Intelligence. Godfrey arrived in London with his family as political refugees from Chile in the 1970s and grew ...
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acid house · Albany (Deptford) · breakdancing · Planet Wax · raves · Transpontine · Woolwich

Lewisham Sound Systems Trail

Jun

3

2022

Big crowds last Sunday (29/5/2022) at the Lewisham Sound Systems Trail, with dub reggae and other sounds across the Deptford area. All free as part of the We are Lewisham borough of culture programmeDennis Bovell and Friends in the Albany garden.Lemon Lounge at Creekside artworksUnit 137 at Deptford Market Yard
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Albany (Deptford) · Creekside · Dennis Bovell · Deptford · reggae · Transpontine

Lewisham Sound Systems Trail

Jun

3

2022

Big crowds last Sunday (29/5/2022) at the Lewisham Sound Systems Trail, with dub reggae and other sounds across the Deptford area. All free as part of the We are Lewisham borough of culture programmeDennis Bovell and Friends in the Albany garden.Lemon Lounge at Creekside artworksUnit 137 at Deptford Market Yard
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Albany (Deptford) · Creekside · Dennis Bovell · Deptford · reggae · Transpontine

Deptford Gay Disco 1976

Jun

3

2019

South East London gaysoc apparently grew out of Goldsmiths gay society and by 1976 was putting on what may have been the first 'regular gay disco' in the area - 'with upward of 60 local gays attending' -  at the Deptford Albany (then at its old building in Creek Road). Source: Gay News (London) March 11-24, ...
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Albany (Deptford) · Goldsmiths · lesbian and gay · LGBTQ+ · Transpontine