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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

New Cross Party in the Park

Sep

2014

The 1990s Urban Free Festival in Fordham Park was a major London event, bringing together people from what at the time was a big free party/squat/punk/rave scene. 20 years later (13 September), similar sounds were to be heard in the same place at the Party in the Park - including Back to the Planet who ...

Post-Punk at Goldsmiths

Sep

2014

An interesting series of talks and film screenings coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross on Thursdays starting next week and carrying on through to December on the theme 'Post-Punk then and now'. Some key people from that time will be appearing including Green Gartside (Scritti Politti), Gee Vaucher (Crass), Lydia Lunch and zine innovator ...

Can’t Kill What’s Inside

Aug

2014

Next Saturday 30 August, London-based Polish anti-fascists Dywizjon 161 (Division 161) are putting on a gig at the New Cross Inn. 'Can't Kill What's Inside' features :- 210 - 'antifascist hardcore from Russia' - http://210hxc.bandcamp.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/210hxcPERMA WAR - punk from London - https://permawar.bandcamp.com/BLEACH - https://www.facebook.com/bleachthrashhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9H63vMQeYTickets: £6 at the door, all money raised going towards PARTIZAN MINSK FC.Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/773657615988104/?fref=ts

Sham 69/Lewisham 77 – punk and (anti) fascism

Jun

2014

The riotous anti-National Front demonstration in New Cross and Lewisham in August 1977 has been covered here before (see this chronology of the events). Jon Savage's classic book 'England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock' notes that an image from that day taken by rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky featured on the sleeve of a ...

Feminist Disco at Lewisham Arthouse

Jun

2014

Artist Rachael House is bringing her 'Feminist Disco' to Lewisham Arthouse in New Cross next Friday, 20 June 2014 (6 pm to 9 pm). As well lots of women's music classics, the event will also feature performance artist Silvia Ziranek and a film about women and the miners strike. Admision Free at 140 Lewisham Way SE14.

Siouxsie at the South Bank – and Horniman Juju

Jun

2013

I wasn't quite sure what to expect at the Siouxsie gig at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday night. I thought it might be one of those polite 'an audience with...' sit down South Bank affairs, where ageing punks perform interpretations of Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill and labour through the Great American Songbook. But no, ...

Music Monday: Blyth Power

Mar

2013

More good music coming up at Cafe Crema (306 New Cross Road). This Friday 8th March there's a return of their periodic 'New Orleans, New Cross' acoustic jam session, 'musicians and listeners of good taste and discernment' will be welcome to gather 'around the soulful piano'.Blyth PowerThen on Friday 15th March they've got Blyth Power ...

Music Monday: Deptford Days

Feb

2013

Deptford Days: Songs Around and About SE8 is a CD issued in December 2012 by Deep Diver Records. As the title suggests, what links the disparate 24 tracks by different artists is that all the songs have some connection to Deptford (well one of them is actually about Hilly Fields, but that's not far away ...

Music Monday: Cat Bear Tree

Feb

2013

Cat Bear Tree are an up and coming South London all-girl trio, featuring Zoe Konez (guitar/vocals), Claudia Mansaray (bass/vocals) and Sarah Smith (drums/vocals). They describe their sound as 'angular, harmony-driven, indie punk-pop' with impeccable reference points including Sleater-Kinney, Warpaint and Pretty Girls Make Graves. Their energy really reminds me of the old New Cross/Angular Recordings scene (was that ...