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...
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Domino’s advert in Fordham Park

Oct

1

2017

A new advert for Domino's Pizza was filmed in New Cross Gate's Fordham Park. 'The Official Food of Squads' features a group of young guys trying and failing to look cool as they wander through the park to a soundtrack of P.Diddy's 'Bad Boy for Life'.Walking through Fordham Park with Deptford Green School in the ...
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Fordham Park · New Cross · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

Music Monday: Joel Culpepper

Aug

7

2017

SE London soul singer Joel Culpepper has been getting lots of attention recently on the back of his new Tortoise EP. He was on Gilles Peterson's BBC 6Music show a few week ago and gave a shout out to Lewisham.His collaborators on the EP include legendary Chicago house producer Roy Davis Jr. (responsible for garage ...
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Blackheath · Joel Culpepper · Lewisham · Music Monday · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

Elle Fanning in Brockey?

Jul

22

2017

Walking past Brockley Social Club yesterday I noticed that there was a film shoot in progress. Quick bit of investigation - OK I looked at the sign on one of the vehilces - and it transpires that 'Teen Spirit' is the movie in question. Directed by Max Minghella, the film stars US actor Elle FanningAccording to ...
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brockley social club · Elle Fanning · Idris Elba · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

The end of the world comes to Telegraph Hill

Mar

26

2017

There was a strange light at Telegraph Hill upper park (Kitto Road SE14)  earlier this week, with the night artificially brightened with floodlights to create a hyperreal landscape. The reason was that filming was taking place of a new BBC drama, Hard Sun, set in a pre-apocalypse world with only five years left. The series ...
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South London Film and TV locations · St Catherine's Church - Hatcham · Telegraph Hill Festival · Telegraph Hill Park · Transpontine

United Kingdom: David Oyelowo & Rosamund Pike in the Rivoli

Nov

10

2016

'United Kingdom' is a new movie starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, based on the true-life interracial romance between Seretse Khama (first president of Botswana) and his wife Ruth Williams. The couple first met in London in the 1940s, and the film seems to have used the Rivoli Ballroom as a location for some of ...
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Brockley · Crofton Park · Rivoli Ballroom · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

‘Miss you Already’ – Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette in the The Lord Clyde SE1

Apr

18

2016

'Miss you already' (2015) stars Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette as life long friends dealing with breast cancer and infertility in London. Good film with some lovely moments, and some sad bits obvs.A lot of the filming took place around Southwark, including the great Lord Clyde pub in Clennam Street SE1I think this scene was ...
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Lord Clyde · South London Film and TV locations · Southwark · Transpontine

Lucky Man at the Rivoli

Feb

2

2016

Stan Lee's Lucky Man is the latest TV/film production to feature the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park as a location. For the purposes of the Sky One show, it is transformed into the Pleasure Palace pole dancing club visited by detective James Nesbitt.The whole show foregrounds London, Nesbitt always seems to be driving across a ...
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Crofton Park · Rivoli Ballroom · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

The Kooples at the Rivoli Ballroom

Nov

4

2015

French clothing line The Kooples is the latest to take advantage of the splendour of Crofton Park's Rivoli Ballroom for a film shoot. Their latest advert features a glamorous couple meeting up amidst a northern soul dancefloor.For loads more at the Rivoli, including Lana del Ray, Jimmy Page, Oasis, Florence and the Machine etc. see ...
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advert · Brockley · Crofton Park · Rivoli Ballroom · South London Film and TV locations · The Kooples · Transpontine

Bob Hoskins RIP – by the river

Apr

30

2014

Farewell Bob Hoskins, a great London actor, so here he is (mostly) by the River Thames:By Tower Bridge in the Long Good Fridaywith Helen Mirren in The Long Good Fridaywith Helen Mirren by St Thomas Hospital SE1 in Last Orderswith Michael Caine in Last Orders... scene shot in the Larkhall Tavern in Claphamon the South ...
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clapham · Film · River Thames · South Bank · South London Film and TV locations · tower bridge · Transpontine

Derek Jarman on the South Bank

Feb

24

2014

Twenty years last week (19th February) since the death from AIDS of Derek Jarman (1942-1994), film-maker, artist, writer, gardener and queer activist  There wasn't too much to mark the tenth anniversary of his passing, but back in 2004 me and some friends lit some candles and left flowers at Butlers Wharf SE1 where he once ...
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Bankside · Deptford · Derek Jarman · Film · South London Film and TV locations · St Nicholas Church (Deptford) · Transpontine