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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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: Kinds

Mar

2014

Electronic duo Kinds (Karen Warner and Mark Morrish) are based in Falmouth, Cornwall. But Karen grew up in New Cross and went to Edmund Waller school so we're going to take some South East London credit. In fact I believe she once lived in the very same house in Pepys Road where dance music producer ...

Music Monday – Will Greenwood, Woodpecker Road

Mar

2014

The funeral of Will Greenwood took place earlier this month in Glastonbury. Born Stephen Worley on 13 June 1959, he died on 10 February this year after being found ill on the canal boat he was living on.Will Greenwood in Goddards pie and mash shop, Greenwich 2012Will moved to Glastonbury in the mid-1980s, and as ...

Music Monday: Deptford Shanty Crew

Mar

2014

London Mayor Boris Johnson is due to make a decision this month on whether to give planning permission to the controversial proposal for a redevelopment of Convoys Wharf, the riverside site in Deptford that was once home to the Royal Dockyard. As reported here previously, Johnson announced last October that he was taking the power ...

Music Monday: Goldsmith Music Studios (& Thom Yorke at Laban)

Mar

2014

Record producer Nigel Godrich, best known for his work with Radiohead, officially launched the new Goldsmiths Music Studios on New Cross Road last Thursday. According to Goldsmiths, it has 'been designed to be a creative space for research, performance and recording where musicians, both Goldsmiths students and members of the public, can make professional-level recordings ...

Music Monday: New Music Cities- South London

Feb

2014

'New Music Cities - South London' is a nice short film directed by Jamie Jessett featuring local musical luminaries singing the praises of the Southlands. There's street scenes from Brixton and Peckham (by the library), and the green hill looking over London at the start is Nunhead Reservoir - next to the cemetery. Featured artists ...

Music Monday: Rhiannon the Nightmare

Feb

2014

Rhiannon the Nightmare's 'country punk blues' are an established feature of the New Cross music scene as befits an outfit 'Raised in the deep south east by the New Cross delta on canned lager, chewing tobacco and heartache'.They've recently recorded a song celebrating Little Nan's Bar at the Bunker Club (46 Deptford Broadway),with a video ...

Music Monday: Little Mix in Peckham Chapel

Feb

2014

Litte Mix's most recent single 'Little Me' is in the great tradition of feminist-lite empowerment anthems. Song-wise it's not quite up there with Christina Aguilera's Beautiful or TLC's Unpretty - but hey, what is?Of course if you are going to sing a song advising your younger self to overcome adversity and 'Talk a bit louder, be a ...

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 ...

Music Monday: Mount Kimbie

Jan

2014

I guess we can't really count Mount Kimbie as local any more, as apparently the electronic duo moved last year from Peckham to Hackney. But it was definitely South London that made them - Dom Maker and Kai Campos met at South Bank University, and started recording at home when living in Peckham. In the ...

Music Monday: London Bridge is Falling Down – Newtrament (1983)

Jan

2014

Newtrament's 1983 electro track 'London Bridge is Falling Down' came out after the general election of that year. The track includes a sung refrain from the nursery rhyme and one of the first UK raps. As Paul Gilroy writes in 'There ain't no black in the union jack' (1987): 'His version chronicled police malpractice and ...