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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...

History Corner: Peckham Anarchists in the 1890s

Jul

2013

Interesting account by Nick Heath at Libcom on 'state repression against the Peckham Anarchist Communist Group in 1894':'In the 1890s several groups of, in the main, young activists broke away from Hyndman’s Social Democratic Federation and coalesced as anarchist groups in Canning Town, Deptford and Peckham. The Peckham Anarchist-Communist Group was one of these groups ...

London & Brighton: a pub vanishes

Jul

2013

This empty patch of land on the corner of Queens Road and Asylum Road SE15 is all that's left of the recently demolished London & Brighton pub. As discussed here previously, the pub was closed in 2008 though it had an after life as a squatted centre putting on gigs and parties.The pub will be ...

£10m Peckham Complex to transform South East London art scene

May

2013

Peckham has been threatening to be "the next" somethingorother for a while now - mostly, the next Dalston on account of its nightlife and arts scene. This analysis also confirms Brockley's status as the new Stoke Newington - nearby but more bourgeois.Hoping to confirm Peckham's ascendancy and their own place at the heart of that story ...

Reggae bass shakes Telegraph Hill Park

May

2013

A little taste of carnival in Telegraph Hill Park this afternoon, with several hundred people relaxing on the grass bathing in the sun beams and the fine sounds drifting across from the sound system in Arbuthnot Road. The beer and the barbecue helped too - at one point the queue for the latter stretched round the ...

Music Monday: Maria Minerva

May

2013

The video for Maria Minerva's new track Soulsearchin was filmed by Laid Eyes around various SE London locations in Catford (the cat feaures), Lewisham , Peckham (Rye Lane) and Brockley. The last part was seemingly shot in Aladdins Cave salvage yard on Loampit Vale SE13. At one point Maria clambers over the old Russian tank in Mandela ...

Peckham Dolehouse Revisited

May

2013

Tonight (Friday 3rd May) the spirit of late1980s/early 1990s London squat culture will reappear at the Peckham Palais, 1 Rye Lane SE15 with 'The Dolehouse Reunion'.The Peckham Dolehouse was a famous squat that ran from Spring 1989 to October 1990 in an empty Department for Health & Social Security building in Collyer Place off Peckham High ...

Afrika Bambaataa at Bussey Building

Apr

2013

From the South Bronx to South London, Afrika Bambaataa is coming to Peckham on Wednesday June 5th, a legendary figure in the development of hip hop and electro. Worth a tenner of anybody's money.Inevitably he's going to be appearing at the Bussey Building (CLF Arts Cafe), which has hosted a number of other music greats ...

Frightened to death by Brockley Cemetery: more Spring Heeled Jack?

Apr

2013

Brockley Cemetery, then known as Deptford Cemetery, was the scene of the strange case of a young woman being 'frightened to death' in the late 19th century. The British Medical Journal, April 7 1888, reported:'The serious effects of shock to the nervous system, especially by fright, are constantly witnessed... Death itself is, fortunately, comparatively rare. ...

Peckham Brainwrap

Mar

2013

Brainwrap Comedy is a night of short comedy films at the Bussey Building in Peckham. The next one is tomorrow (Wednesday) from 8pm and they take place approximately every two months. Founder Adam explains:We like to separate the night into different sections: starters, main courses and desserts. Starters are usually experiments or films with a ...

South London Soul Train Back on Track

Mar

2013

It's the first Saturday of the month, which means tonight it's South London Soul Train at the CLF Arts Cafe/Bussey Building (133 Rye Lane SE15), a night of funk/soul/rare groove/motown complete with Jack Tyson Charles Band playing live.I went there for my birthday in January, it was packed with people dancing from the moment it ...