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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...

Siouxsie at the South Bank – and Horniman Juju

Jun

2013

I wasn't quite sure what to expect at the Siouxsie gig at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday night. I thought it might be one of those polite 'an audience with...' sit down South Bank affairs, where ageing punks perform interpretations of Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill and labour through the Great American Songbook. But no, ...

See Red Women’s Workshop: feminist posters from SE5/SE17

May

2013

See Red Women's Workshop was a feminist screenprinting collective based in Walworth/Camberwell from around 1974.According to Jess Baines: 'See Red's activities included the designing and printing of their own posters and calendars, as well as taking on design and print commissions for other organisations. See Red developed a range of feminist posters that attempted to ...

The Animal That Therefore I Am

May

2013

Local artists Cait Peterson and Wiggy Cheung have an exhibition opening next week at the House Gallery in Camberwell (70 Camberwell Church Street). 'The Animal That Therefore I Am' features animal-themed paintings, drawings, and taxidermy, and is in support of the mental health charities Rethink and Mind. The show will run from 13-29 May (closed Bank Holiday ...

The origins of the May Day bank holiday

May

2013

Enjoying the May Day bank holiday? A resolution calling for two new public holidays a year, on May Day and New Year's Day, was passed by the Trades Union Congress in 1970 and in 1975 the Labour Government declared that from 1978, May Day (or the Monday after it) would be a bank holiday. So this is ...

Record Store Day in South London

Apr

2013

Record Store Day is on tomorrow, Saturday 20 April, a celebration of independent record shops.Holding up the South London end is Camberwell's Rat Records (348 Camberwell New Road), with live DJs from 10 am to 7 pm. Line up includes DJ Terror Eyes, still remember a fantastic set by him at Dead by Dawn in ...

Too Much Night, Again

Apr

2013

Los Angeles-based artist Pae White's installation, 'Too Much Night, Again' is on at the South London Gallery until 12 May (65 Peckham Road, SE5; admission free).The title of the yarn-based installation refers to insomnia, with the thread colours apparently linked to a Black Sabbath album belonging to her parents that used to terrify her as ...

Music Monday: Cat Bear Tree

Feb

2013

Cat Bear Tree are an up and coming South London all-girl trio, featuring Zoe Konez (guitar/vocals), Claudia Mansaray (bass/vocals) and Sarah Smith (drums/vocals). They describe their sound as 'angular, harmony-driven, indie punk-pop' with impeccable reference points including Sleater-Kinney, Warpaint and Pretty Girls Make Graves. Their energy really reminds me of the old New Cross/Angular Recordings scene (was that ...