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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...

Music Monday: The Battle of Lewisham 1977

Aug

2021

Long time New Cross balladeers Ceri James and Mark Sampson have collaborated on a new single, 'The Battle of Lewisham 1977', released last week on the anniversary of the historic anti-National Front demonstration in New Cross and Lewisham (see lots of previous posts here for background to this)Syd Shelton's iconic image from the 'Battle of ...

New Crass Massahkah on South Bank

Jul

2021

Linton Kwesi Johnson’s New Craas Massahkah poem, about the 1981 New Cross Fire, is on display by the South Bank Centre where the track is being played on the hour every hour until the end of August.

Women’s Day for Disarmament 1983

Jul

2021

'Women's Day for Disarmament' took place on May 24 1983, with hundreds of events across Britain. This was the period of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp against cruise missiles and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was at its height.In South London events included a temporary peace camp on Clapham Common near to the South ...

Black Lives Matter in South London, one year on

May

2021

'ACAB' 'Floyd' - Albert Embankment SE1, April 2021A year ago today the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis sparked off the latest round of the global Black Lives Matter movement. The UK movement really started off with a march in Peckham on the 30th May and today Black Lives Matter activist ...

Lewisham Museums of Migration and Neoliberalism

May

2021

With museums and galleries reopening let's celebrate two small but perfectly formed and radical museums in the borough of Lewisham, with a few photos from pre-lockdown period.The Migration MuseumThe Migration Museum in Lewisham Shopping Centre reopens on 19th May 2021. I visited in that brief inter-lockdown window in Summer 2020 and saw The Singh Twins great ...

Music Monday: Elephants and Castles – Song for the Birds

May

2021

We've featured some of Elephants and Castles' South London-tinged songs here before, including Concrete Love (filmed in the now vanished Elephant and Castle subways) and The World's Greatest Complainers, filmed in Jenny's cafe in Deptford.Their latest single, Song for the Birds, was inspired by hearing birdsong down Deptford High Street during lockdown 'so we wrote ...

The Covid Memorial Wall

Apr

2021

The National Covid Memorial Wall has been painted over the last month by volunteers along the South Bank of the Thames between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge, opposite the Houses of Parliament, and including the riverside wall in front of St Thomas' Hospital. There are around 150,000 hearts, each representing one of the UK Covid ...

Fenton Ogbogbo- murdered by racists in the Old Kent Road, 1981

Apr

2021

Fenton Ogbogbo was a 25 year old man who was murdered in a racist attack on the Old Kent Road in June 1981. Three white youths aged 15 to 17 from the Peckham area were jailed at 'Her Majesty’s pleasure' in a trial at the Old Bailey in the following year. The court heard that on ...

Music Monday: Pinty at the Gowlett Arms

Mar

2021

I heard 'Found it', the new single from South London MC Pinty, on Gilles Peterson's BBC6 Music show at the weekend. Wait a minute, does he actually mention legendary Peckham pub The Gowlett on this track? Yes indeed, my ears were not deceiving me.Found It by PINTY It is in fact 'a love story set in ...

‘Predatory culture’ – challenge to Dulwich College continues

Mar

2021

Boys boarding school Dulwich College has been rocked in the last week by allegations of a culture of sexual abuse and harassment amongst its students, targeting in particular young women attending local schools with which the College has links, notably James Allen's Girls School (JAGS). A demonstration planned for last Friday by pupils from local ...