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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Music Monday: Hope 4 Justice with Eska and John Stainer School Choir

Mar

25

2024

In 2022 over 1,000 young people, including students from 27 South London schools took part in Hope 4 Justice, an urgent call to action on the climate emergency highlighting issues such as air quality, ‘throw-away’ culture and housing inequality through performances of music, dance and spoken word. Created and produced by Trinity Laban as part ...
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Brockley · Eska · John Stainer school · Lewisham · Music Monday · Transpontine · Trinity Laban

Acoustic Anarchy

Mar

21

2024

Martin Howard's Acoustic Anarchy has been running since 2017 at waterintobeer in Brockley (209 Mantle Road SE4), an acoustic live music night focusing on folk, punk and indie. There's a couple of events coming up in next few weeks.As part of the Telegraph Hill Festival this weekend, on Saturday 23rd March 2024 there's a special ...
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acoustic anarchy · Brockley · folk · Transpontine · waterintobeer

Music Monday: Sahra

Mar

18

2024

Brockley-based singer Sahra is another graduate of the great South London jazz finishing school that is Trinity Laban. She's been getting increasing attention for her new material, including an excellent live session on Giles Peterson's show on Worldwide FM last week. Her new single 'Alone Again' was recorded I believe at her partner Theo Erskine's studio ...
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Brockley · Music Monday · Transpontine

Music Monday: Sahra

Mar

18

2024

Brockley-based singer Sahra is another graduate of the great South London jazz finishing school that is Trinity Laban. She's been getting increasing attention for her new material, including an excellent live session on Giles Peterson's show on Worldwide FM last week. Her new single 'Alone Again' was recorded I believe at her partner Theo Erskine's studio ...
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Brockley · Music Monday · Transpontine

Cider with Joyce

Oct

17

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. 
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Brockley · cider · Joyce · Transpontine

South London Street Art Gallery, September 2023

Sep

19

2023

Refugees Welcome - Nettleton Road SE14Refugees Welcome - Nunhead'Now playing Stereolab Parsec' - Station Passage SE15'Stop lying' - Peckham'South London is Anti-Fascist' - Peckham High Street'Edelweiss Piraten' sticker, Nunhead (name of underground youth subculture in Nazi Germany)Multilingual radical posters Bellenden Road SE25'Transphobia belongs in the bin' - sticker, Brockley'Justice for Chris Kaba', New Cross Road ...
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Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross · Nunhead · Peckham · stickers · Transpontine

South London Tarot

Jan

27

2023

 Brockley Pop Up on the corner by Brockley Cross roundabout has hosted some interesting retro clothes and other short term shops recently. Lates temporary occupant is Tia Xixa Tarot offering tarot readings until 29 January 2023Like many tarot readers, Jessica uses the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, to which there is a South London connection  ...
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Brockley · Camberwell · esoteric · Tarot · Transpontine

Enough is Enough

Oct

1

2022

In our latest round up of radical messaging from the streets of SE London it's no surprize to see the cost of living crisis taking centre stage.'Don't Pay' stickers and posters have been ubiquitous recently, as the movement to encourage people who can't/won't pay their rocketing energy bills steps up. Don't pay poster in Catford shopping ...
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Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross · Peckham · stickers · Transpontine

Anti-Refugee Bill opposed at Brockley Cross

Apr

14

2022

Billboard poster at Brockley Cross denounces the Government's plain evil plans to deport refugees to offshore detention camps. Press reports today suggest refugees arriving in the UK could be flown to Rwanda. 
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Antirefugee Bill · Brockley · refugees · Transpontine

‘Close to Me’ – Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen in the Rivoli

Nov

17

2021

Channel 4 drama 'Close to Me' is the latest to make use of the Rivoli Ballroom as a location. In the story a fundraising event for refugees in Hastings actually takes place in Brockley Road SE4.  Sometime Dr Who Christopher Eccleston and Danish actor Connie Nielsen - sometime Queen Hipployta in the DC universe - ...
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Brockley · Crofton Park · Rivoli Ballroom · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine