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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...

New regular music nights at the Rivoli, starting July 25th

Apr

2015

Brockley's answer to Madame JoJo's will be throwing their doors open on a regular basis for a series of new music nights. This is the first.

The Magic Theatre, March 28

Mar

2015

Javone Prince at the Rivoli Ballroom

Mar

2015

A new comedy series is filming at the Rivoli Ballroom and the producers are looking for a live audience. The promoters say:Oh Mah gosh! Javone Prince, star of PhoneShop has been given his own BBC2 series!Join Javone as he hosts an evening of characters, sketches, live music and bare madnesses at The Rivoli Ballroom in ...

The Rivoli relocates to Walford

Jan

2015

Stock Character 1: It's hardly the Rivoli is it?Stock Character 2: Is the Rivoli still there?- EastEndersLast year, the BBC promised to gentrify Albert Square, to reflect the changing face of modern London. Last night, the first fruits of this strategy began to emerge, when Brockley's Rivoli Ballroom got a namecheck - its majesty held up ...

NYE at the Rivoli

Nov

2014

No child left behind: Kids have to be a minimum of 6 years old

Rivoli Fundraiser for Save Lewisham Hospital

Oct

2014

A couple of weeks ago I was out for a run, and we came across somebody on Ladywell Fields who had fallen off her bike and cut her head. There was no panic - we knew we were just around the corner from Lewisham Hospital's A&E Department, and when we called for an ambulance it ...

Rivoli Fundraiser for the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign

Oct

2014

Iain writes:The last fundraiser sold out and we were turning people away at the door. Obviously, we were all still high from the victory in the high court, but I think the last year has shown how important it is that we continue, which means we need funds.The trust has to make 5% 'savings' every ...

Avengers: Age of Brockley

Apr

2014

Alexander Pierce: Captain, to build a better world, sometimes means tearing the old one down... And that makes enemies. - Captain America 2Age of Ultron is the story of a monomaniacal intelligence that lives through the InternetGone are the days when BC had to come up with spurious excuses to include the Avengers in article ...

The Rivoli Ballroom up for sale (again)

Apr

2014

The Rivoli Ballroom is up for sale for £7.5 million.Its current owners put it on the market for £10 million back in 2007. That move triggered a campaign to protect it from being turned into flats or a supermarket and it was given Grade II listed status as a result. This planning restriction gave the sellers ...

Rivoli Most Wanted

Mar

2014

Muppets Most Wanted gets a selected release this weekend. Among the celebrity cameos is the Rivoli Ballroom, whose velvety walls are the perfect setting for a Muppet musical. It shows up several times in this trailer and if Statler and Waldorf aren't featured as Brockley trolls, then they have missed a trick.