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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: 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 ...

Split Enz in Forest Hill

Jan

2014

Split Enz were the most internationally successful New Zealand band of the 1970s/early 80s. After touring Australia in support of Roxy Music, they moved to London in 1976 where Roxy's Phil Manzanera (ex-Dulwich College incidentally) produced their 'Second Thoughts' album. By this point band founder Tim Finn had been joined in the band by his ...

Head Shot (Drank)

Jan

2014

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

Boat of Stars, February 8th

Jan

2014

Louisa writes:Please join us for our latest Neighbourhood Concert: 'Boat of Stars' on Saturday the 8th of February, in the undercroft of St Hilda's Church in Crofton Park.We will enjoy Melanie Sanders, Caroline Foulkes and Richard Black in a programme featuring arias and songs by Handel, Purcell and Jeffrey Joseph. Tea, coffee, cake and wine ...

Love Lewisham Day – Part 1

Jan

2014

This is nearly two years old, but it's new to us. Lewisham Now, by Britain's Got Talent entrant Cesar Laser. It rewards perseverance (and even repeat viewings). With thanks to Thomas on Twitter.

Revue ZouZou: 1930s Paris comes to Nunhead

Jan

2014

Back in 2010, there was a great 1920s night at the Ivy House (Stuart Road SE15) themed around the film Piccadilly. The people behind it have also been doing the Brockley Jack Film Club, and now they are back at the Ivy House putting on 'Revue ZouZou' on 8 February 2014. They say:'we move through the ...

More New Cross Venue Memories

Jan

2014

Over at the great Irish blog Cedar House Revolution, I came across some more recollections of the Venue in New Cross (see previous posts on this subject, especially comments here).Damian O’Broin recalls that he 'spent the summer of 1990 – and the one before it – working on building sites in London' and that he ...

Coming Up Roses, January 26th

Jan

2014

The Fairies of Deptford Creek

Jan

2014

London Dreamtime put on site-specific storytelling and song events in London places, with story teller Vanessa Woolf being accompanied musically by Nigel of Bermondsey. Past locations have included the Heygate Estate and West Norwood Cemetery. Later this month, on Friday January 24th (8 pm), they will be putting on a nightime event 'in a secret ...

Music Monday: John Lunn, from minimalist funk to Downton Abbey

Dec

2013

New Cross/Telegraph Hill resident John Lunn has become one of the country's most successful composers for TV, commended in particular for his music for Downton Abbey. In September he was awarded his second Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for his work on the show (he discusses the music here).In the 1980s, Lunn was a member of 'systems ...