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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...

The Gig Guide – 1995 South London music listings

Oct

2025

I found this June 1995 issue of The Gig Guide for London in Revolution Records in Penge. I don't remember it from the time and it certainly doesn't cover the breadth of music from that period. Its focus is very much on the pub music scene but it provides an interesting snapshot of South London ...

Transpontine Ten Years Later

Oct

2014

Can't quite believe that this blog is ten years old. The first posts were on 9 October 2004, covering a talk on witch trials at South East London Folklore Society, a gig by our then favourite local band The Swear at the Montague Arms, and another gig by The Fucks at Goldsmiths . The blog really ...

Long Blondes in New Cross 2004

Jul

2014

Is it really ten years since the Angular New Cross summer of 2004? Well, yes obviously, but it doesn't seem that long ago that the music press was full of tales of the 'New Cross Scene' (like this one from the NME in May 2004), and then locally-based label Angular Recording Corporation was getting some ...

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 ...

Gaggle Cave

May

2013

Gaggle, the twenty strong all-women alternative choir, are taking up residency later this month at the InSitu Project Space - the Royal Albert pub's new gallery space next to the pub at 460 New Cross Cross Road. For three weeks (May 30th - June 21s) Gaggle will be running it as 'a one of a kind concept shop, gallery ...

Utrophia – last few days? (or maybe not)

Feb

2013

Utrophia has been running as an art space in the old Job Centre in Deptford High Street since July 2011 (for a short period before that the building was squatted as Deptford Social Centre Plus). Utrophia has been expecting to close some time soon to make way for a planned new pub, provisionally called The Job Centre, and run ...

Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

The Gig Guide – 1995 South London music listings

Transpontine Ten Years Later

Long Blondes in New Cross 2004

Gaggle Cave Opens

Gaggle Cave

Utrophia – last few days? (or maybe not)