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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Sun Ra, Prince and Shaka in Brockley Road

Apr

22

2025

Some musical legends commemorated at Lorenzo's Records Wanted shop at 260a Brockley Road, the mural painted in 2023 by Butch Attai. Those featured include Jah Shaka, Prince, Ennio Morricone, Sun Ra, Yukihiro Takahashi and Holger Czukay. Some stuff for the real heads there and an indication of the kind of music you can find inside. ...
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Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · Jah Shaka · record shops · Transpontine

Sun Ra, Prince and Shaka in Brockley Road

Apr

22

2025

Some musical legends commemorated at Lorenzo's Records Wanted shop at 260a Brockley Road, the mural painted in 2023 by Butch Attai. Those featured include Jah Shaka, Prince, Ennio Morricone, Sun Ra, Yukihiro Takahashi and Holger Czukay. Some stuff for the real heads there and an indication of the kind of music you can find inside. ...
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Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · Jah Shaka · record shops · Transpontine

Black Echoes – South London nights out 1987

May

30

2024

A window into London soul, funk and reggae nightlife from Black Echoes, 14 March 1987:A 7 day 'Black Arts Festival' at the Cultural Centre in Woolwich with dance, drama and music with Smiley Culture, Ranking Miss P, Sista Culcha, Taxi Pata Pata and more...At the North Peckham Civic Centre on the Old Kent Road, Southwark ...
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Jah Shaka · Linton Kwesi Johnson · Nunhead · Peckham · reggae · soul · Tooley Street · Transpontine · Woolwich

Black Echoes – South London nights out 1987

May

30

2024

A window into London soul, funk and reggae nightlife from Black Echoes, 14 March 1987:A 7 day 'Black Arts Festival' at the Cultural Centre in Woolwich with dance, drama and music with Smiley Culture, Ranking Miss P, Sista Culcha, Taxi Pata Pata and more...At the North Peckham Civic Centre on the Old Kent Road, Southwark ...
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Jah Shaka · Linton Kwesi Johnson · Nunhead · Peckham · reggae · soul · Tooley Street · Transpontine · Woolwich

Mek’ it Blow: police raid New Cross Jah Shaka Blues Dance (1975)

Oct

23

2015

From the groundbreaking black radical magazine, Race Today (May 1975), a report on 'the atmosphere of tension that has gripped the community of black youth in South London following a police invasion of a blues dance at Malpas Road, New Cross, on Saturday 26th April'. 'More than 200 young blacks danced to the sound of the ...
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1970s · Black History · Jah Shaka · Malpas Road · Moonshot · New Cross · policing · Race Today magazine · racism · reggae · Transpontine