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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...

Chill Pill, Feb 20th

Feb

2014

Chill Pill Thursday 20 February 2014, 7.30pm (doors). Tickets £7, £5 (concs) Chill Pill: The Big One Thursday 24 April 2014, 7.30pm (doors) 'til late Tickets £9, £6 (concs) Because South London's second-coolest poetry night is for losers. The Albany Theatre team write:South London's coolest poetry night is coming to the Albany. The combined linguistic talents of Mr ...

Marlowe 450th anniversary: Screening of Jarman’s EDWARD II

Feb

2014

The Deptford Film Club write:To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the playwright Christopher Marlowe’s birth, the film adaptation of his classic play 'Edward II' will be screened inside St Nicholas' Church in Deptford, south London, where Marlowe was buried following his murder in 1593.When King Edward II takes a male lover, Piers Gaveston, both his ...

Vinyl, Tanners Hill

Feb

2014

4 Tanners Hill, SE8 4PJT: 07930421113vinyldeptford.co.uk/Vinyl is a new record shop-cafe-gallery hybrid in Deptford. They say:"Jenny and Ron bring you a new space to to invade, with Jerome Hill in the record shop VINYL...Gallery, Record Shop and Coffee Bar is Deptford's latest micro venue serving coffee smoothies cakes and paninis with a licensed bar."DJs play ...

Deptford from Telegraph Hill in 1815

Feb

2014

This illustration is entitled 'view of Deptford from Plow Garlic Hill, Brockley, AD 1815'. It is reproduced from 'The History of Deptford' by Nathan Dews, published in 1884. One thing that is unclear is whether this is a reproduction of an illustration from 1815, or an engraving done in the 1880s by someone imagining what ...

Deptford High Street – Reverend Casy

Feb

2014

This weekend, we wandered around Deptford High Street - and this video captures the experience nicely. The amazing market has spawned a street food offer and the Yam Yam festival was in full effect between The Albany Theatre and Deptford Library. A band played, the crowd was good natured, we scared our daughter with fish ...

Head Shot (Drank)

Jan

2014

Little Nan's bar now has its own theme song. It's no Eray & Koray.

Music Monday: Katy B ‘Crying for No Reason’

Jan

2014

Katy B photographed in Peckham by Katherine RoseKaty B's second album, Little Red, is out on 14 February and there was big interview with her in yesterday's Observer, conducted in the cafe in Peckham Rye:'A January afternoon in Peckham Rye, south London. Clouds cluster and part over muddy green grass, pouring occasional light on the ...

Fordham Park Three Sided Football on BBC

Jan

2014

Deptford Three Sided Football Club has been covered here before, starting off in Deptford Park and now playing on the first Sunday of every month in Fordham Park, New Cross (all welcome). Also have recalled the earlier 1990s Association of Autonomous Astronauts games on One Tree Hill and elsewhere.Last week the game was featured on ...

Deptford High Street Art and Lai Loi

Jan

2014

Well everyone knows there's lots of art in Deptford, and quite a bit of art that takes Deptford as its subject. Some of it's great, some of it feels a bit like artists scenting the territory or crudely plundering the area for raw cultural materials.For me the more interesting work that is about the area ...

No Meaning – Deptford art show features Turner Prize winner

Jan

2014

'5 months in Deptford' is a temporary art space in Faircharm studios, set up by artist Linda Persson. It opened last month and will continue until April 2014.On Saturday 11th January, there's a new exhibition 'No Meaning', opening there. It features works by Persson as well as other artists including 2013 Turner Prizewinner (and former ...