Lovers Rock in Brockley

This week, BBC Radio 4's "Sounds Like London - 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital" focused on Lovers Rock, the female-friendly reggae sub-genre that Brockley helped shape.Jamaican-born producer Dennis Harris set up a record label called Lover's Rock in the 1970s on Upper Brockley Road, along with John Kpiaye and Dennis Bovell, giving the ...

She Makes War at the Amersham Arms

Wednesday 14th Aug @ Amersham Arms £4 on the door.Event details here.Tickets available from WeGotTickets.comTom writes:Bright Lights is back for August, its gonna be a good'un with some seriously talented artists. First up, She Makes War.SMW is the DIY solo project of Bristol based multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and digital polymath Laura Kidd, whose second album “Little ...

Blurt at the Birds Nest

Free on Sunday 4 August at the Birds Nest (Deptford Church St):Avant punk legend Ted Milton and Blurthttp://www.tedmilton.net/http://www.reverbnation.com/blurtSTARTS EARLY AT 6PMFREE**With Guests** Mouth 4 Rusty - New Album just released this Junehttp://mouth4rusty.bandcamp.com/Olympic Clamp Downhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1P4bCmtw-Uhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQIPTFx_vksPsychoyogi has electrifying new members and will play songs from the new album Opulent Trip: www.psychoyogi.bandcamp.comwww.psychoyogi.com

Music Monday: SE26 4JP

A bit of ultra-localist music from a youth project on the Hazel Grove Estate in Sydenham, celebrating not just SE26 but SE26 4JP. Track was made last year as part of a project funded by Lewisham Homes and Sydenham Assembly.

Ikonika, Mr Cake & Nunhead

Hyperdub artist Ikonika has a new album out later this month, Aerotropolis. Rob Walker's video for the track Mr Cake features a virtual city that seems to owe more to LA or Las Vegas than London, but in an interview in The Fader, Ikonika reveals that inspiration for the track title came from Nunhead:“Mr Cake” ...

Love Songs to the Planet, July 20th

Coote & Tinney’s on Breakspears

Adrian writes:This notice is from the collection of Museum of Music History (http://www.momh.org.uk/) - a garden party presumably, 123 years ago this Wednesday, hope they enjoyed the same weather!

Brockley Death Machine

Brockley-based band Little Death Machine's video was filmed at Deptford's Utrophia. Here you go.

Bright Lights at the Amersham

Tom writes:Bright Lights is back, summer is here (kind of) and we've got another awesome night of music lined up for you lucky cat boys and cat girls! The perfect way to cure your Glasto blues... Ned Robertswww.facebook.com/NedRobertsmusic.comBairbre Anne http://www.facebook.com/BairbreAnnewww.bairbreanne.comTom Jacobsonhttp://www.facebook.com/tomjacobsonmusic/Nancy Goosehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Nancy-GooseAmaliahttp://www.facebook.com/amaliamusikIt's just £4 on the door (£3 with NUS), there's a totally amazing line-up ...

Festival in the Forest

Last weekend we went along to Devonshire Road Nature Reserve's first 'Festival in the Forest', in search of some greenery, live music, and a few posh beers (see below). As an unexpected bonus, the sun was shining on us.The site is accessed via a narrow strip from the road, where a small hut and decked ...