anarcho-punk Archives - 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...

RIP Colin Jerwood – SE London punk legend

Jun

2025

Colin Jerwood, lead singer with South London anarcho-punk band Conflict, has died. At their 1980s peak they were very influential in the punk scene and famously once played a huge gig at Brixton Academy in 1987 ('The gathering of the 5000') which ended with 52 arrests and fighting with the police in the streets outside.I ...

Crass, Poison Girls, UK Decay – Luton 1979

Dec

2019

As I post this it is forty years ago this very night that anarcho-punk pioneers Crass and Poison Girls played in Luton, along with home town punks UK Decay on 14th December 1979. A friend who was there (I wasn't) posted the flyer on facebook. I remember the venue well enough, an old hanger next ...

Music Monday: Anarcho punk 1984 in New Cross & Old Kent Road

Jan

2016

'Not Just Bits of Paper', edited by Tony Bull and Mickey Penguin is 'A series of recollections, memories, imagined dreams perhaps from the collective memories of those who lived through the punk and anarcho-punk years' of the 1980s (available from Situation Books). It includes lots of flyers and other 'ephemera' and I noticed these two ...

Music Monday: RIP Paco (Conflict and Inner Terrestials drummer)

Feb

2015

Punk drummer Francisco 'Paco' Carreno died last week, at the age of 49. Paco was a key figure in the 1980s anarcho-punk scene as drummer with Conflict, and later in the New Cross music scene.Picture of Paco from Conflict facebook pageConflict hailed from Eltham, specifically the Coldharbour Estate. Paco started drumming at the age of ...