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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...

Music Monday: RIP Paco (Conflict and Inner Terrestials drummer)

Feb

2015

Punk drummer Francisco 'Paco' Carreno died last week, at the age of 49. Paco was a key figure in the 1980s anarcho-punk scene as drummer with Conflict, and later in the New Cross music scene.Picture of Paco from Conflict facebook pageConflict hailed from Eltham, specifically the Coldharbour Estate. Paco started drumming at the age of ...

Music Monday: SE4-Real at Montague Arms

Nov

2014

Coming up next Monday 17th November at the Montague Arms, a night of bands from New Cross/Brockley area with some great punky/garagey/riot grrlish noise, some of them so lo-fi that they have released cassettes (and in the case of PAMs recorded at Brockley Studios in Arabin Road)'From the Burning Streets of Brockley! The ‘Boss’ from ...

Music Monday: The Spaceape RIP

Oct

2014

Stephen Gordon, who recorded as the Spaceape, died earlier this month after living with cancer for several years.This is from Melissa Bradshaw's obituary of him in the Guardian (24 October 2014):'The Spaceape, who has died of cancer aged 44, was a poet, vocalist and MC from London who took the Jamaican dub poetry tradition into a ...

Music Monday: Aphex Twin and legendary Elephant & Castle

Sep

2014

Major junctions attract folklore as well as traffic, as those who pass by take their choice of the road less travelled or the road not taken, and wonder whether the guy with a stick and a dog is actually Papa Legba, guardian of the crossroads. This is even more so with a junction close to ...

Music Monday: Pigeon Heroes in Goldsmiths Music Studios

Sep

2014

Pigeon Heroes are a South East London-based folkish band who I was lucky enough to catch at the Kit and Cutter event at the Albany earlier this year. They have just posted a video of them recording a new song 'People and Trees' in the recently opening Goldsmiths Music Studios in New Cross Road. So take ...

Music Monday: Kate Tempest

May

2014

Brockley-born Kate Tempest has been around for a while - first mentioned on Transpontine back in 2008 when she was performing as Excentral Tempest. But in the last year or two she's made a real breakthrough, including winning the Ted Hughes poetry prize last year for her 'Brand New Ancients' epic performance poem.She's got a new ...

Music Monday: Blue Rose Code – The Ballads of Peckham Rye

May

2014

New Cross-based Scottish singer Blue Rose Code (Ross Wilson) has a new album out next month, 'The Ballads of Peckham Rye'. We featured him at Transpontine before in 2012, since then he has released his well received debut album, North Ten (2013).As the sleevenotes to the new album mention: 'The title arrived courtesy of Muriel ...

Music Monday: Major Tom in Deptford (or Greenwich?)

May

2014

In 1969, David Bowie made a half hour promotional film called 'Love You Til Tuesday', featuring seven of his songs including the first version of 'Space Oddity'. The film was shot in January and early February 1969 at Clarence Studios. It wasn't released at the time but later saw the light of day when it ...

Music Monday: Akwaba and Lewisham Bridge Primary School Choir 1983

Apr

2014

Last week I was DJing at the Agit Disco benefit for Housmans bookshop at the Surya Bar in Islington, also on the bill was John Eden (Uncarved) who kindly gave me this record he had found in his crate digging for reggae classics and obscurities.'El Condor Pasa' by Akwaba is a cover in a lovers ...

Music Monday: Test Dept and the Miners Strike

Apr

2014

Continuing the series of posts on the 1984/85 miners strike and South London, we turn to Test Dept. As discussed several times here before, the influential industrial band started out in New Cross, specifically at 8 Nettleton Road where some of the band were living.Many bands played benefit gigs for the miners, but Test Dept went ...