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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...

Frederick Wiedhofft – New Cross Photographer

Apr

2014

I recently stumbled across a fine photograph Graeme Brooker posted on twitter with the caption '1920. New Cross. George & Nelly Rumble. My great-great aunt & uncle'. The photo was in a frame bearing the name 'F.Wiedhofft, 338 New Cross Road', and a quick search across family history and photography sites will locate many pictures attributed ...

South London Anti Fascists meeting tomorrow

Apr

2014

On Sunday 27th April far right fragment 'March for England' is planning to march in Brighton, and anti-fascists are mobilising to stop them. According to Anti-Fascist Network'For the last few years there has been an annual far-right event in Brighton held around St George’s Day in April. The “March for England” which is confusingly both ...

New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2014

Apr

2014

The Festival starts this Friday. Highlights include:- O Brother, Where Art Thou? in the cells of The Old Police Station (114 Amersham Vale), on Friday May 2nd, with 'Deptford's answer to the Soggy Bottom Boys... Danny & The Moonlighters and The Hellfire Orchestra at 7.15pm followed by the film screening at 8pm.'- A bike-powered, sing-along screening of Grease, presented ...

Music (and poetry) Monday: Joseph O’Connor

Apr

2014

As part of the Irish President's recent state visit to London, there was a night of Irish music broadcast on BBC-4 as 'Ultimate Irish Music at the Royal Albert Hall: A Presidential Celebration'.Truth be told it was a bit patchy, but one of the strongest parts was a reading from the writer Joseph O'Connor, best ...

The LP Bar – First Flight

Apr

2014

The LP Bar opens tonight at 401 New Cross Road. The bar, brought to you by the team behind The London Particular, is inspired by the golden age of air travel and has been counting down to launch for the last few days, hiding a few Easter Eggs in its Twitter contrail. Here's their latest ...

Music Monday: Test Dept and the Miners Strike

Apr

2014

Continuing the series of posts on the 1984/85 miners strike and South London, we turn to Test Dept. As discussed several times here before, the influential industrial band started out in New Cross, specifically at 8 Nettleton Road where some of the band were living.Many bands played benefit gigs for the miners, but Test Dept went ...

Skateboards and Sound Systems in Telegraph Hill Festival Final Weekend

Apr

2014

[Update Sunday 6th April - because of the wet weather, the SKAM festival has been cancelled, and will be rearranged later in the summer. The Sound System RUMBQ won't be happening in the park either but WILL be taking place indoors instead - in the Narthex building at St Catherine's Church (Kitto Rd, SE14).A few ...

Sad sack story

Apr

2014

Sarah writes:My friend's lost a dark green, khaki army style rucksack in New Cross around midnight Monday night, and have exhausted all efforts to try and physically find it so we now turn to the web. Inside was a Macbook Pro, and Toshiba 1TB external hard drive. We're all convinced it's probably been stolen by now ...

The Cross Wires Festival, 3 May 2014

Apr

2014

Decoded: Cicada 3301 has nothing on thisThey say if you could read the poster for the Cross Wires Festival, you weren't really there. Open call for participants in this nascent Deptford / New Cross festival. Via the South East London forum.

The Montague Arms Returns

Mar

2014

We have light pic.twitter.com/FTFFgjG11a— Montague Arms (@Montague_Arms) March 20, 2014The Montague Arms (289 Queens Road, SE15 2PA) is back and reassuringly eccentric.The New Cross pub many thought lost forever when its former owners died reopened last week, festooned by its new team with homicidal foxes, gas masks and machinery. Its steampunk aesthetic is accompanied by ...