band of holy joy Archives

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...

Figurant at Strange Parade

Mar

2026

A mesmerising audiovisual performance at Strange Parade in Nunhead last month (28 February 2026), with Inga Tillere's film piece accompanied by words from Johny Brown (of Band of Holy Joy) and musical accompaniment from Mark Beazley (bass) and Jono Podmore (theremin and other sounds).'Figurant' is centred around the 'discarded fragments of space and time' embodied ...

Band of Holy Joy at Dash the Henge

Aug

2025

Dash the Henge in Camberwell has so much interesting stuff going on in addition to selling records, not to mention having a pop up Henge in Brixton arcade. This Saturday 23 August sees a performance at 5 pm by the legendary Band of Holy Joy, launching a new CD of poetic psychogeographical experimentation 'Data breach ...

Richard Cabut at Dash the Henge

May

2025

Another interesting night coming up the great Dash the Henge shop in Camberwell on Thursday 22 May 2025, Richard Cabut will be reading from his poetry collection 'Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances', now being launched as an audio book. Accompanied by Magic Soundscapes from the Band of Holy Joy plus Patrick Lyons and film.

Band of Holy Joy at Ivy House on Friday

Apr

2018

A great gig coming up this Friday 6th April 2018 at the Ivy House in Stuart Road SE15 (east side of Peckham Rye) with the Band of Holy Joy:'A night of beastly beatitude and other sonic deviances at the Ivy House in London. Come and join us at The Ivy House London's first co-operatively owned ...

Little Earthquakes… Independent Records Labels & SE London

May

2017

The joint Independent Label Market/London Brewers Market in Greenwich on Friday night (5/5/2017) was good and busy, with music, food and drink stalls and Lewisham's Unit 137 Sound System shaking the rafters of the indoor market.I wrote a piece for the programme giving a quick overview of independent labels associated with SE London, in particular ...

Music Monday: 30 years of Band of Holy Joy

May

2013

It is now 30 years since Band of Holy Joy were formed in New Cross, and they're still going strong (albeit with some big gaps along the way!).One of their first releases was a 1984 cassette 'More Favourite Fairytales' put out by Glasgow-based Pleasantly Surprised. The sleevenotes say: 'Holy Joy were formed in the summer of ...

I have travelled the buses late at night

Apr

2013

One of Margaret Thatcher's many reported contemptible utterances was that '"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure" (though actually there's some doubt exactly what she said, when, or even whether she said it all!).Was it prophetic that just two days ago The Band ...