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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...

Lene Lovich at the Hill Station

Jun

2014

Singer Lene Lovich was on Stiff Records during its late 1970s hey day, and had a big hit in 1978 with Lucky Number. But one way or another she has been making music and writing songs for forty years.She's apparently been recording locally and is playing a one off gig in the intimate surroundings of ...

Tiananmen in New Cross

Jun

2014

25 years ago today (June 4 1989), tanks entered Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the protest movement that had occupied the square for the previous six weeks. In clashes around the city, and in other parts of China, hundreds of people were killed - the full number may never be known. As Lilia Zhang, who ...

Virginia Woolf – A Dog’s view of London (& Robert Browning of New Cross)

Jun

2014

One of Virginia Woolf's lesser known works is Flush (1933), a biography of Eizabeth Barrett's spaniel. It's partly a whimsical parody of Victorian biography, but it does include a dog's eye (or rather dog's nose) perspective of London:'For the first time he heard his nails click upon the hard paving stones of London. For the ...

Maya Angelou in South London

May

2014

So long Maya Angelou (1928-2014), who died today. The great African-American writer is featured in a mural on a wall by Brockley station, somewhat the worse for wear at the moment, with words from her poem 'Life don't frighten me at all':'...Tough guys fightAll alone at nightLife doesn't frighten me at all.Panthers in the parkStrangers ...

Classical and Experimental music at the Montague Arms

May

2014

Ian writes:I'm starting a new monthly evening of music at The Montague Arms on Tuesday 10th June.It's going to feature contemporary classical and experimental music acts. I'm aiming for a cross between an evening at the Barbican and a night down the pub.The acts on the 10th are:The Broca Ensemble - Brockley's finest large minimalist guitar ...

Governors wanted for Childeric Primary School

May

2014

John Stevens writes:A few years ago, in a moment of public spiritedness I volunteered to Lewisham Council to be a governor at a local school. After a few months I was offered a place as a community governor at Childeric Primary School in New Cross (round the back of the New Cross Inn) – and ...

Will we build again? – thoughts on radical housing

May

2014

I went to some of the Radical Housing weekend in New Cross last month (26th April), one of a series of events across London from the Radical Housing Network. The day of talks at Cafe Crema in New Cross Road was packed, and I caught Owen Hatherley talking about the history of Council housing in ...

Goldsmiths student facing deportation

May

2014

Goldsmiths Fine Art post-graduate student Laura O'Dochartaigh is currently facing deportation and is trying to raise funds to pay for legal fees for her fight to stay in the UK - where her son was born. She says:'Our family and private life have been seriously disturbed by the UK Home Office. They have now extended the ...

UKIP’s vanishing poster in New Cross

May

2014

UKIP's election poster in New Cross hasn't done too well this week. This graffiti appeared earlier this week - it reads 'Stay out of South London, racist UKIP scum':Last night, the poster was torn down. In his interesting review of the elections in Lewisham, Bob from Brockley writes: 'doubt many of my readers would even ...

Taste Mauritius, June 6th

May

2014

New Cross cafe, No 178, is playing host to a Mauritian supperclub night on Friday, June 6th.The event will be banquet-style, with a paid-bar. Click here for details. Tickets cost £29.50.