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...
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Music Monday: Naima Bock – ‘Toll’

May

23

2022

Naima Bock was the  co-founder and bassist with Goat Girl, but has left the band to pursue a solo career. Her debut album is due out on Sub Pop on 1 July 2022. Naima spent her childhood between Britain and Brazil and indeed has just completed a tour of Europe supporting Brazilian singer Rodrigo Amarante. ...
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Edmund Waller Primary School · Goat Girl · Music Monday · Naima Bock · New Cross · Transpontine

Music Monday: Naima Bock – ‘Toll’

May

23

2022

Naima Bock was the  co-founder and bassist with Goat Girl, but has left the band to pursue a solo career. Her debut album is due out on Sub Pop on 1 July 2022. Naima spent her childhood between Britain and Brazil and indeed has just completed a tour of Europe supporting Brazilian singer Rodrigo Amarante. ...
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Edmund Waller Primary School · Goat Girl · Music Monday · Naima Bock · New Cross · Transpontine

Russian Revolutionaries in New Cross/Deptford, 1907

Feb

21

2022

In 1907 the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held at the Brotherhood Church in Hackney. The 338 delegates represented the various factions of the party, chiefly its Bolshevik and Menshevik wings, and included Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and, Maxim Gorki. The Radical History of Hackney blog has written about ...
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1900s · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Carrington House · Deptford · New Cross · Russian revolution · Transpontine

Light Perpetual – remembering the New Cross V2 disaster

Feb

19

2022

An eye catching, if slightly storm frayed billboard advert in New Cross Road announces the paperback publication of Francis Spufford's novel 'Light Perpetual'. Spufford has been teaching creative writing at Goldsmiths since 2008 and the novel is directly inspired by events in New Cross Road. As he explains in the book, 'for the last twelve ...
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Francis Spufford · Goldsmiths · New Cross · novels · south london songs · Transpontine · World War Two

The temporary architecture of Covid-19

Dec

29

2021

Mobile Testing Unit, Canada Water Is anybody documenting the temporary architecture of COVID-19?All those pop-up testing, vaccine and booster centres. White marquees in lockdown-emptied carparks. Public buildings grand and shabby transformed into collection points for saliva and mucus. Neighbourhood chemists with queues round the block administering life-saving vaccines.Testing Centre by Devonport House, GreenwichIn a nation obsessed ...
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canada water · Catford · Covid-19 · Deptford · Greenwich · health services · New Cross · Transpontine · Waldron Health Centre

Dub London – nights of raving

Sep

5

2021

'Dub London: Bassline of a city' closed last week at the Museum of London, a small exhibition documenting the impact of reggae sound system culture in the capital. Exhibits included a speaker stack from Channel One sound system, photographs and a vinyl selection provided by London reggae record shops. Naturally, South East London featured prominently, with ...
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Deptford · Lewisham · Mad Professor · Moonshot · New Cross · reggae · Saxon Sound System · Transpontine

Black Lives Matter in South London, one year on

May

25

2021

'ACAB' 'Floyd' - Albert Embankment SE1, April 2021A year ago today the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis sparked off the latest round of the global Black Lives Matter movement. The UK movement really started off with a march in Peckham on the 30th May and today Black Lives Matter activist ...
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Black Lives Matter · Brixton · East Dulwich · graffiti/street art/murals · Lewisham · New Cross · Transpontine

Green Onions re-opens – Stefan Finnis (1974-2021) remembered

Mar

26

2021

Green Onions, the much loved health food and record shop in Clifton Rise, New Cross, has reopened after a period of closure.Sad to report that the co-founder of the shop, Stefan Finnis, died on 15 January 2021. There's a lovely collection of photos and memories of Stefan online, and a book of remembrance in the ...
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Clifton Rise · Green Onions · New Cross · Transpontine

Vigil to remember victims of patriarchal violence – Telegraph Hill Park

Mar

21

2021

There was a vigil in Telegraph Hill Upper Park last night (20th March 2021) 'to remember victims of patriarchal violence' . A list of women killed by men stretched across the ground ending in Sarah Everard,  recently killed while walking home in Clapham.Those present read out the following together: 'We lay down flowers and light candles ...
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#reclaimthesestreets · feminists and suffragists · graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross · Telegraph Hill Park · Transpontine

Recent radical street art (New Cross, Brockley, Deptford)

Feb

20

2021

From the radical canvas that is the streetscape of South East London, a few recent interventions in the social fabric...Up against the wallSeen on the bus stop outside Goldsmiths in New Cross today (20 February 2021):The full text reads: ' We are all outlaws in the eyes of England / In order to survive we ...
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Brockley · Deptford · graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross · Transpontine