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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Music Monday: Kinds

Mar

2014

Electronic duo Kinds (Karen Warner and Mark Morrish) are based in Falmouth, Cornwall. But Karen grew up in New Cross and went to Edmund Waller school so we're going to take some South East London credit. In fact I believe she once lived in the very same house in Pepys Road where dance music producer ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2014

Mar

2014

Telegraph Hill Festival opens this weekend, with three weeks of art, music, theatre and more, including activities for everyone from toddlers to pensioners. You can read the full programme here, so I won't labour the point.The biggest events, in terms of size, will probably be the community production of Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin's ...

Music Monday – Will Greenwood, Woodpecker Road

Mar

2014

The funeral of Will Greenwood took place earlier this month in Glastonbury. Born Stephen Worley on 13 June 1959, he died on 10 February this year after being found ill on the canal boat he was living on.Will Greenwood in Goddards pie and mash shop, Greenwich 2012Will moved to Glastonbury in the mid-1980s, and as ...

Sketching New Cross

Mar

2014

Really enjoyed the 'Sketching New Cross' exhibition at Hart's Lane Studios SE14 last weekend. People from 'London Drawing on Location Group' came down to New Cross/Deptford last month and sketched what they saw, before exhibiting their workLots of local landmarks featured, including New Cross Inn, Marquis of Granby, St Pauls Church etc.My personal favourites were Sue ...

Undercurrents – 1970s radical snippets

Mar

2014

Undercurrents, 'the magazine of alternative science and technology', was published in England between 1972 and 1984. Christopher Squire was one of the editors and he has performed a great service to historians of radical movements by creating an online archive of the journal. I have had a preliminary look through for SE London content but ...

Getrude/Roshi/Angelpoise at Lewisham Arthouse on Friday

Mar

2014

Interesting gig coming up on Friday at Lewisham Arthouse:'GERTRUDE are an alternative 4 piece band based in and around London. Formed as a collective in 1996 Gertrude soon caused a stir in many different London ‘scenes’.They enjoy playing gigs in a wide variety of venues – such as onboard the Motorship Stubnitz or alongside ‘punk ...

The summer of cycling begins

Mar

2014

Summer officially dawned this weekend and we are guaranteed at least six months of unbroken sunshine in Brockley, from here on. So it is with exquisite timing that two cycling announcements were made today.Firstly, Lewisham Council has promoted its new cycle loan scheme. For an initial £10, you can try a bike for a month ...

Goldsmiths to transform St James Hatcham church as next wave of New Cross redevelopment begins

Mar

2014

For a while, we've been alluding to the fact that Goldsmiths would be stepping up its plans to invest in its campus, which occupies much of central New Cross.The redevelopment programme is not only a priority for Goldsmiths, but for local residents, who want the empty high street properties brought back into use. BC is ...

New Cross and Hither Green – A foreign land for Farage

Mar

2014

This weekend, Nigel Farage told his party conference in Torquay that parts of Britain have become "unrecognisable".Curiously, he chose a train journey from Charing X to Kent to illustrate his point, claiming that he rode through London Bridge, New Cross and Hither Green to Grove Park before his nerves were calmed by the sound of ...

Music Monday: Goldsmith Music Studios (& Thom Yorke at Laban)

Mar

2014

Record producer Nigel Godrich, best known for his work with Radiohead, officially launched the new Goldsmiths Music Studios on New Cross Road last Thursday. According to Goldsmiths, it has 'been designed to be a creative space for research, performance and recording where musicians, both Goldsmiths students and members of the public, can make professional-level recordings ...