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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...

South London Street Art Gallery, September 2023

Sep

2023

Refugees Welcome - Nettleton Road SE14Refugees Welcome - Nunhead'Now playing Stereolab Parsec' - Station Passage SE15'Stop lying' - Peckham'South London is Anti-Fascist' - Peckham High Street'Edelweiss Piraten' sticker, Nunhead (name of underground youth subculture in Nazi Germany)Multilingual radical posters Bellenden Road SE25'Transphobia belongs in the bin' - sticker, Brockley'Justice for Chris Kaba', New Cross Road ...

Music Monday: Three WIze Men, South London Hip Hop 1988

Jul

2023

Three Wize Men were an early UK hip hop trio, putting out an album and several singles on Rhythm King records between 1986 and 1988. This New Musical Express interview from 1988 situates them very much in South London:'Sarff London!! Sarff London!! In the best traditions of the Hip Hop Nation this was the lip ...

Opposing the Iraq War in South London

Mar

2023

The Iraq War started on 20 March 2003 with a massive American-led 'shock and awe' bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of US, British and other troops. Over the next eight years more than 100,000 civilians were killed.Early protestsThere was a long build up to the war, with sanctions against Iraq dating back to ...

Enough is Enough

Oct

2022

In our latest round up of radical messaging from the streets of SE London it's no surprize to see the cost of living crisis taking centre stage.'Don't Pay' stickers and posters have been ubiquitous recently, as the movement to encourage people who can't/won't pay their rocketing energy bills steps up. Don't pay poster in Catford shopping ...

Harold Moody & W.E.B. Du Bois – Queens Road SE15 as international anti-racist clearing house

Feb

2021

A blue plaque at 164 Queens Road, Peckham, commemorates its status as the one time home of Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947). Moody moved from Jamaica to London to become a doctor, and established his first GP practice at 111 King’s Road (now King’s Grove), Peckham, in 1913. In 1922 he moved to nearby 164 Queens ...

Careless Whisper – a Peckham ballad

Jan

2020

The late great George Michael may have grown up in north London and Hertfordshire, along with his Wham! mate Andrew Ridgeley, but who knew that one of their best known songs was written in Peckham?As told in his recent recent book 'Wham! George & Me' (2019), Andrew Ridgeley moved in with his then girlfriend and later ...

The Castle Owner and the ‘Countess’ of Peckham: a 1957 trial

Aug

2018

In a sensational trial in 1957, a 52 year old man was prosecuted for shooting a 22 year old woman with intent to murder in Gellatly Road SE14 (described in contemporary press reports as being in Peckham, not sure many people living there now would describe it thus).The accused, Denys Eyre Bower (b.1905), was the owner ...

Poster Workshop 1968-71: North Peckham strike and Catford reggae festival

Jun

2018

The Poster Workshop was a radical screenprinting project 'set up in a basement at 61 Camden Road, Camden Town, London N1, in the summer of 1968. It was carried along on the wave of rebellion sweeping the world at that time, and was inspired in part by the Atelier Populaire which had resulted from the ...

Halloween: the pumpkins after the night before

Nov

2017

Maybe not quite so spooky in daylight, but the surviving pumpkins on the morning after Halloween have their own horrors...Malpas Rd SE4Drakefell Rd SE4Drakefell Road SE4Asylum Road SE15

Sound System: Dave Randall talk at Rye Wax

Aug

2017

Coming up tonight (15 August 2017) at Rye Wax in the Bussey building on Rye Lane Se15, a Q&A with Brixton-based musician Dave Randall (Faithless, Slovo) about his new book 'Sound System: the political power of music':'Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many have believed in the ...