Classical Indian music night in Telegraph Hill

Opera Gold in New Cross

Event: Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Date & Time: 6-7 June 2013, 19:00 - 22:00Venue: Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building (New Cross Gate/New Cross Overground)Price:  £10 full / £5 concessionsContact: Imogen Burman (i.burman@gold.ac.uk / 020 7919 7645)Goldsmiths says:OperaGold is proud to present Benjamin Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', produced and directed by internationally feted soprano Nan ...

Peckham Dolehouse Revisited

Tonight (Friday 3rd May) the spirit of late1980s/early 1990s London squat culture will reappear at the Peckham Palais, 1 Rye Lane SE15 with 'The Dolehouse Reunion'.The Peckham Dolehouse was a famous squat that ran from Spring 1989 to October 1990 in an empty Department for Health & Social Security building in Collyer Place off Peckham High ...

Noah and the Whale at the Rivoli

Latest in the never ending saga of the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park - Noah and the Whale performing their new song Lifetime in a new promotional film featured in the the Telegraph.

NX Records

Tony Wilson: Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride. - 24 Hour Party PeopleGoldsmiths says:Goldsmiths, University of London has partnered ...

Record Store Day in South London

Record Store Day is on tomorrow, Saturday 20 April, a celebration of independent record shops.Holding up the South London end is Camberwell's Rat Records (348 Camberwell New Road), with live DJs from 10 am to 7 pm. Line up includes DJ Terror Eyes, still remember a fantastic set by him at Dead by Dawn in ...

Afrika Bambaataa at Bussey Building

From the South Bronx to South London, Afrika Bambaataa is coming to Peckham on Wednesday June 5th, a legendary figure in the development of hip hop and electro. Worth a tenner of anybody's money.Inevitably he's going to be appearing at the Bussey Building (CLF Arts Cafe), which has hosted a number of other music greats ...

Soundtracks lineup announced

Soundtracks, the music festival that uses the East London Line to link venues in East and South East London, has announced its lineup for this year.The event, which includes live music from 40 different bands and artists playing on the trains themselves, will include gigs from The Wave Pictures, Woodpecker Wooliams and Tawiah (above).Full details ...

Kate Tempest: Voice of gritty Brockley

Kate Tempest is a Brockley performance poet, who recently won a Ted Hughes prize for spoken story. Transpontine and Eastlondonlines have already celebrated her rise and we've been meaning to showcase this Brockley talent for some time, but now the Guardian has forced our hand, by putting her on its front page today.The article discusses ...

I have travelled the buses late at night

One of Margaret Thatcher's many reported contemptible utterances was that '"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure" (though actually there's some doubt exactly what she said, when, or even whether she said it all!).Was it prophetic that just two days ago The Band ...