War Child benefit gig at the Amersham

Live Artists writes:Live Artists Concerts and Captain Backfire's Martin Holiday have joined forces to curate an evening of amazing music all in support of the fantastic charity War Child at the Amersham Arms on Thursday, April 11th. Here's more about the artists who will be performing:Jay Brownhttp://www.iamjaybrown.comJay Brown is a young songwriter from Northampton. Her ...

The Hornets

Lewisham Odeon 1963: The Beatles (twice) and Ray Charles

Fifty years ago, on March 29 1963,The Beatles played at Lewisham Odeon. They were on tour with Chris Montez and Tommy Roe - in fact they weren't even mentioned on the ticket. Their setlist on this tour contained six songs: Love Me Do, Misery, A Taste Of Honey, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Please Please ...

Oh What a Lovely War: the First World War and a New Cross Church

This weekend a cast  and crew of around two hundred are taking part in the Telegraph Hill Festival Community Production of Oh What a Lovely War. The musical about the First World War was developed by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop and first premiered almost exactly fifty years ago on 19 March  1963.This might ...

Bright Lights at the Amersham Arms

Tom says:A friend and I have just started promoting monthly music nights at the Amersham Arms. I have lived in New Cross for two years now and want to bring as much quality music into the area as possible as it seems most artists/bands tend to stay east at the moment and the venue is ...

A Europhile night out in Brockley – Book now to avoid a Tobin tax

Leave your bendy cucumbers at home this weekend, Brockley orchestra Harmony Sinfonia is staging a "pro-European night out." They say:This Saturday, March 9th at St Peter's Church, Wickham Rd, SE4, Brockley's very own symphony orchestra, Harmony Sinfonia, will be taking a trip around three major European cities. We'll perform a programme of music which includes Bizet's ...

Disco is LIFE!

Casanova Frankenstein: It must have been hard for you, Tony, the way times and styles have changed... hearing the people say that disco is dead...Tony P.: Disco is not dead! Disco is LIFE!Casanova Frankenstein: Yes, Tony! That is the passion I remember! Stick with me, Tony, and you will dance again... when I rule this ...

The Voodoo Ball, March 9th

Alternative Paddy’s Day in New Cross

Hugh: It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. - Translations, Brian FrielThe New Cross Inn will host an 'Alternative Paddy's Day' (Sunday 17 March 2013) to raise funds to stage a Party in the Park this summer in the New Cross / ...

Antenna Studios Cafe

I popped into the newish cafe at Antenna Studios in Crystal Palace a couple of weeks ago. The Studios have been going since 2002, primarily for music recording and rehearsal spaces, but also hosting all kinds of creative activity. The cafe is tucked away in Bowyers Yard in Haynes Lane  SE19 (walk past the indoor market and ...