New Cross Archives - Page 20 of 41

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...

‘Blacks Brittanica’ in New Cross

Oct

2014

This Thursday 30th October, 7pm in the Cinema (room RHB 185) at Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW:'South London Anti-Fascists are proud to host a screening of David Koff's 1978 documentary 'Blacks Britannica'.Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about ...

The Common Greene – Reading Deptford History through Peter Linebaugh (in New Cross on Monday)

Oct

2014

Radical historian and theorist of the commons Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged, The Many-Headed Hydra (with Marcus Rediker), The Magna Carta Manifesto, and introductions to a Verso book of Thomas Paine’s writing and PM’s new edition of E.P. Thompson’s William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. Linebaugh works at the University of Toledo, ...

Oxjam New Cross Takeover, October 18th

Oct

2014

Transpontine Ten Years Later

Oct

2014

Can't quite believe that this blog is ten years old. The first posts were on 9 October 2004, covering a talk on witch trials at South East London Folklore Society, a gig by our then favourite local band The Swear at the Montague Arms, and another gig by The Fucks at Goldsmiths . The blog really ...

New Cross library fundraiser with AL Kennedy

Oct

2014

Author and comedian, AL Kennedy will be attending a fund-raising evening on 27th October at New Cross Learning (AKA New Cross Library), reading from and signing her new book All The Rage.Tickets in advance from Brown Paper Tickets – £10 full price, £8 concessions. There will be refreshments available.New Cross Learning, with the support of ...

Little Nan extends her stay

Oct

2014

Itinerant bar Little Nan's is extending its stay in New Cross and looking for a permanent home. Tristan says:I would like to let you that Little Nan's Bar is staying at Birdie Num Nums Cafe in New Cross until January! It's been going so well at Birdie Bar, and we have viewed potential new homes ...

New Cross Party in the Park

Sep

2014

The 1990s Urban Free Festival in Fordham Park was a major London event, bringing together people from what at the time was a big free party/squat/punk/rave scene. 20 years later (13 September), similar sounds were to be heard in the same place at the Party in the Park - including Back to the Planet who ...

The Spirit of 78″

Sep

2014

The LP Bar in action The LP Bar in New Cross is staging a new monthly night for the "spirit and cocktail curious", bringing drinks experts and mixologists in for evenings of "learning, tasting and experimenting"First up is Whisky - hosted by Mark Jennings of Drinks Galore.Mark will give a guided tour of the brown stuff ...

Post-Punk at Goldsmiths

Sep

2014

An interesting series of talks and film screenings coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross on Thursdays starting next week and carrying on through to December on the theme 'Post-Punk then and now'. Some key people from that time will be appearing including Green Gartside (Scritti Politti), Gee Vaucher (Crass), Lydia Lunch and zine innovator ...

Kender Surprise

Sep

2014

With the Global Street Art festival on its way to Brockley next year, a new work has just appeared on a warehouse wall in Kender Street, New Cross. Thanks to Vik for the photo - if anyone knows the story behind it, please let us know.And now? Not. The moral majority won. The mural is ...