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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...

Music Monday: Naresh Sohal

Jun

2013

The composer Naresh Sohal was born in Punjab in 1939 and moved to the UK in the early 1960s.Sohal was profiled in the Financial Times last week: 'he lives in a modest house in Brockley, southeast London, and draws ideas for his music from cosmology, Sanskrit philosophy and the European classical tradition'. The feature included a ...

Goldsmiths to restore New Cross landmark

Jun

2013

Goldsmiths announces:The iconic Richard Hoggart Building on Lewisham Way is the focus of a major restoration project by Goldsmiths, University of London.The building, which dates back more than 160 years and is named after a former head of the College, is the main building on Goldsmiths’ 16 acre campus in New Cross and the first port of ...

Music Monday: Brockley Ukulele Group at Amersham Arms

Jun

2013

Brockley Ukulele Group continue their tradition of fine flyers with this uke-toting clangers image:They are playing at the Amersham Arms on Sunday June 9th with their ever expanding repertoire of songs available for you to request in the Sunday night Ukebox. They've got more records than the KGB don't you know?

Summer Solstice in Telegraph Hill Park 2013

Jun

2013

For the third year running, the Summer Solstice will be celebrated in Telegraph Hill Park following a parade around nearby New Cross streets. Last year was great, complete with marching band and plenty of sunshine!'A revival of an old tradition in SE14, a summer solstice parade between New Cross and Telegraph Hill. A marriage between the ...

Gaggle Cave Opens

Jun

2013

The Gaggle Cave opened on Thurday night in InSitu, the new art space attached to the Royal Albert on New Cross Road. The Gaggle choir sang a couple of songs outside, and there's lots of stuff happening there over the next few weeks. There's quite a few fee paying workshops; among the free stuff is ...

Simply the Jest – new comedy night in New Cross

May

2013

Black Bird Comedy are launching a new fortnightly comedy club at the White Hart in New Cross, starting next Friday 7 June. They say:'Three up-and-coming London comedians, Thanyia Moore, Athena Kugblenu and Natalie Roberts have joined forces to create Black Bird Comedy and are bringing a new comedy night to New Cross. Simply the Jest ...

Grow Wild 2: Grow Wilder

May

2013

Armageddon vs Deep Impact. Dante's Peak vs Volcano. White House Down vs Olympus Has Fallen. Grow Wild New Cross vs Grow Wild UK.Two gardening groups with the same name have very similar ideas about using flowers to green urban spaces, but very different levels of resources.Grow Wild UK is offering to fund wild flower gardening ...

Reggae bass shakes Telegraph Hill Park

May

2013

A little taste of carnival in Telegraph Hill Park this afternoon, with several hundred people relaxing on the grass bathing in the sun beams and the fine sounds drifting across from the sound system in Arbuthnot Road. The beer and the barbecue helped too - at one point the queue for the latter stretched round the ...

RumBQ Street Party by Telegraph Hill Park

May

2013

This Bank Holiday Sunday 26 May 2013 sees a free street party in Arbuthnot Road SE14, next to Telegraph Hill Lower Park. RumBQ will feature the Unit 137 reggae sound system, with DJs including: - Hylu & Jago- DJ Snuff- Ed West- Decks Ray Spex- LionbeatThey say: 'This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event, please bring ...

Music Monday: 30 years of Band of Holy Joy

May

2013

It is now 30 years since Band of Holy Joy were formed in New Cross, and they're still going strong (albeit with some big gaps along the way!).One of their first releases was a 1984 cassette 'More Favourite Fairytales' put out by Glasgow-based Pleasantly Surprised. The sleevenotes say: 'Holy Joy were formed in the summer of ...