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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...

The Peckham Rye Music Festival

Jan

2016

Georgia writes:A brand new independent multi venue weekend festival for London launches this May.The Peckham Rye Music Festival will have over 40 world class artists, labels, record shops, workshops and seminars in the mix to create a fresh and exciting vibe in this ever evolving, creative and buzzy corner of London.- 8 local venues already ...

Open the Window: soundscapes from South London to the World

Dec

2015

For the third Christmas Eve in succession, Hither Green-based experimental/improvisational music label Linear Obsessional has released a compilation based on inviting submissions in line with a chosen theme. This year's premise was simple: 'open your window and record two minutes of what you can hear. Interacting with it live if you wish, or editing and ...

If Aneurin Bevan were alive today, he’d be a Belieber

Dec

2015

If this is the race for the Christmas number one then the War on Christmas is won.The Guardian reports that this year's race for the top spot is between Justin Bieber and the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, with the Canadian only 3,000 sales ahead of our team, who have reheated their mashup of Fix ...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Dec

2015

Rob sends us this yuletide favourite - Novelist performing Endz, shot on the Wickham Road estate.

Catch Me, Lewis Barfoot

Dec

2015

More Brockley music: Local chanteuse Lewis Barfoot filmed her debut video at Asylum in Peckham.

Frozen Christmas, December 12th

Dec

2015

Penniless Cove – Tuesday

Nov

2015

Penniless Cove are a Brockley-based band whose latest video was shot in Hilly Fields, Manor Avenue and The Broca. Check it out.

Archshark King launch night at the Ladywell Tavern

Oct

2015

Ladywell-based Archshark King launch their debut album, Float & Kick, at the Ladywell Tavern tomorrow, Friday 30 October. Entry is free and there will be food and a special live set at 8pm from the act’s 11 musicians and singers. The evening also features food, lights, and festivity.The album, Float & Kick, is now available ...

Ghostpoet in Nunhead – more Mercury Prize news

Oct

2015

Mentioned earlier this week the nomination of Lewisham's Eska for this year's Mercury Music Prize, alongside Camberwell/Kennington's Florence Welch. Somebody has since pointed me in the direction of Nunhead's Shrunken Head Studios, who noted that another contender, Ghostpoet, recorded his nominated album 'Shedding Skin' there at 40 Nunhead Green

Ron blows the Brockley Thistle Whistle

Oct

2015

Thistle be interesting. Ron is trying to track a former resident down from the time when Scottish culture dominated Brockley, just as the Krankies ruled the airwaves and Runrig ran riot in the charts. He writes:My name is Ron Newman and I'm a volunteer at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London (the RHC). One of the ...