punk Archives - Brockley SE4

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...

Battle of Lewisham 1977 on Sister Midnight FM

Aug

2026

Last week (13 August) saw the anniversary of the 1977 'Battle of Lewisham' when local communities and anti-racists from all over the country mobilised to oppose a march by the far right National Front from New Cross to Lewisham, events covered in detail at this blog before.SE London community digital radio station Sister Midnight FM ...

Cat & Cucumber & Sham 69

Dec

2024

Lunch recently at the Cat and Cucumber Cafe on Tower Bridge Road (corner of Druid Street SE1), Neil Controlled Weirdness mentioned that the very table we were sitting at features in a 1979 film focused on punk band Sham 69.Yes indeed 'Tell us the Truth', a BBC Arena programme, does indeed include a scene filmed ...

Crass, Poison Girls, UK Decay – Luton 1979

Dec

2019

As I post this it is forty years ago this very night that anarcho-punk pioneers Crass and Poison Girls played in Luton, along with home town punks UK Decay on 14th December 1979. A friend who was there (I wasn't) posted the flyer on facebook. I remember the venue well enough, an old hanger next ...

Pussy Riot in New Cross

Sep

2017

Maria Alyokhina, who was jailed in Putin's Russia for her activities with punk collective Pussy Riot, is speaking at the Centre for Investigative Journalism at Goldsmiths in New Cross on Wednesday 13 September 2017.Maria was convicted in 2012 of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years in prison. Upon her release she ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees +The Cure at Lewisham Odeon, 1979

Feb

2017

Siouxsie and the Banshees played at Lewisham Odeon on 13th October 1979, supported by The Cure,It was the 'Join Hands' tour, and on it The Cure's Robert Smith temporarily stepped in as Banshees guitarist. Philippe Carly has a whole gallery of photos taken that night, including the one below with Siouxsie and Robert.Anyone lucky enough ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2016

Feb

2016

It's the 22nd annual Telegraph Hill Festival next month, with more than 120 events taking place from 5 – 20 March 2016 at various venues in the New Cross/Brockley border zone. You can check out the full programme here, but for now here's a few of the events that caught my ere.Red and Pink'Painting & ...

Anthrax at the Birds Nest tonight

Sep

2015

Last minute call for a free punk gig tonight at the Birds Nest in Deptford Church Street, featuring 1980s anarcho-punk/hardcore stalwarts Anthrax, Liberty and Bug Central. I saw Liberty play a few times back then with Conflict etc, nice guys.

MDC – radical US hardcore veterans at New Cross Inn

Jul

2015

US hardcore punk band MDC are playing at the New Cross Inn on 10 August 2015, supported by In Evil Hour, Choking Susan and The Decline.The band started out as pioneering Texas punk band The Stains in the late 1970s, with their best known track 'John Wayne was a Nazi'. They then became 'Millions of ...

Focus E15 Mother Benefit at Montague Arms

Nov

2014

This Saturday 22nd November there's an all day benefit for the Focus E15 Mothers campaign, who have been fighting in East London to retain social housing. Lots of great punk rock/riot grrrlish musical action, plus cakes, zines, stalls and a raffle.BANDS:The Dykeness - 'feminist comedy cock rock band'Skinny Girl Diet - 'Fierce grrrl gang from London'Rabies Babies - ...

Music Monday: SE4-Real at Montague Arms

Nov

2014

Coming up next Monday 17th November at the Montague Arms, a night of bands from New Cross/Brockley area with some great punky/garagey/riot grrlish noise, some of them so lo-fi that they have released cassettes (and in the case of PAMs recorded at Brockley Studios in Arabin Road)'From the Burning Streets of Brockley! The ‘Boss’ from ...