East Dulwich 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...

Music Monday: Goat Girl – Ride Around on Dawson’s Heights (and Nunhead)

Mar

2024

Ride Around, the new single from Goat Girl, features scenes shot by Dawson' Heights Estate in East Dulwich......and inside our current favourite local pizza place, Dinner for One Hundred's Bar D4100 in Evelina Road, Nunhead.Not sure about other locations - what do you reckon?

Music Monday: Carmody ‘Imperfect Constellations’

Jul

2022

South London singer Carmody has a new album out, Imperfect Constellations.Carmody (full name Jessica Carmody Nathan) is a long time collaborator with Tom Misch, indeed she co-wrote the classic transpontine anthem South of the River. Both Tom and sister Laura Misch appear on the album, and grew up in the same Peckham Rye/East Dulwich border zone ...

Black Lives Matter in South London, one year on

May

2021

'ACAB' 'Floyd' - Albert Embankment SE1, April 2021A year ago today the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis sparked off the latest round of the global Black Lives Matter movement. The UK movement really started off with a march in Peckham on the 30th May and today Black Lives Matter activist ...

Music Monday: High Flying Birds video in Crofton Park & Lordship Lane

Dec

2019

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' 'Wandering Star' single has a Christmas-themed video that sees a Santa coming to the aid of a desperate shoplifter. The shop used in the video is actually Jay's Budgens in Crofton Park (400 Brockley Road SE4, by the Brockley Jack pub).In the video Santa and the shoplifter are chased by ...

Music Monday – Tom Misch – South of the River

Jul

2017

Tom Misch has a new single and it is a proper transpontine neo-soul anthem entitled South of the River. It has a bit of a disco feel to it including a nice violin line from Tobie Tripp as a one man Philly string section and a fusiony keyboard solo from Rob Araujo.The East Dulwich multi-instrumentalist ...

Laura Misch – Playground – SE22 Neo Soul?

May

2017

I'm loving 'Playground', the new album by Laura Misch. Self-produced at home by the multi-talented singer, saxophonist and ableton whizzkid from East Dulwich, it has a much bigger sound than you might be expecting from that description. Laura is the sister of Tom Misch, and while she has a distinct sound there is a similar vibe - ...

A South London Street Art Bestiary

Nov

2014

Fox in Burgess Park (New Church Road, SE5)Kingfisher in East Dulwich (Frogley Road, SE22)Lemur in Sydenham Road, SE26The other Lemur in Sydenham Road.Lion in the car park of the Golden Lion, Sydenham (Daniel Morgan RIP)Panther off Sydenham Road.Ram in Sydenham Road (opposte Golden Lion)Seahorses in Forest Hill (Devonshire Road, SE23)Squirrel on Bellingham Green SE6

Louise Michel: a Paris Communard in South London

May

2014

The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is probably the most significant archive of radical movements in Europe. Recently it has made accessible large parts of its archives in digital form, including the papers of Louise Michel. This has enabled me to solve something that has been bugging me for a long time - ...

Music Monday: King Krule on East Dulwich History (& filmed in Deptford)

Dec

2013

It's been a good year for King Krule (Archy Marshall), with his debut album 6 Feet Below the Moon released in the summer and getting good reviews. Last week (7 December) he was interviewed on Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 6 show .19-year-old Marshall, who went to Forest Hill Boys School and the Brits School in ...

History Corner: WW2 Stretchers as Railings

Oct

2013

Mereton Mansions in Brookmill Road, Deptford was formerly Carrington House, a homeless hostel. The railings outside have an interesting history too - they are made from metal stretchers used by ARP (Air Raid Protection) during the Second World War.Similar examples of this recycling can be found elsewhere in London. I spotted these on the East ...