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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...

Celebrity street art in Deptford and Hackney

May

2016

Deptford High Street has some famous visitors' albeit only in 2D representations. Jim Hendrix (I think): Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia meet John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Nothing quite as grand as the Frida Kahlo mural I saw last week by Hackney Wick station:

Dora Project: Nazi terror in Germany & SE London

May

2016

Last weekend coming up for the Dora Project at Peckham Platform (in Peckham Square by the library). A very interesting exhibition that 'combines art, WW2 London and early rocket engineering' it has been put together by artist Françoise Dupré in collaboration with Rebecca Snow. Essentially it documents and displays the links between the Nazi V2 programme - ...

SE14’s secret sanctuary for garden creatures

May

2016

Somewhere in SE14 there is a hidden pond where gnomes, rabbits and other creatures sit next to a waterfall. These poor things had been cast aside and abandoned, but have now found a new home at this South East London sanctuary. If you want to find it, you will need to look beyond this barrier at Lewisham's Reuse and ...

May Day 2016: Jack in the Green in Deptford and Greenwich

May

2016

Another May Day, another procession through the streets of Deptford and Greenwich with the Fowlers Troop, featuring the Deptford Jack in the Green. As in previous years it all started at the Dog and Bell pub in Deptford, before heading eastward down to the Cutty Sark, Greenwich Park and various pubs. Of course the area is changing, ...

Broca Prince Tribute

Apr

2016

Good to see a Prince tribute in the window of Broca. His purple majesty has always been honoured in that Coulgate Street café by Brockley station, and as on many other times when I've visited his music was playing there yesterday. Yes and there's a copy of Parade on proud display inside. Maybe his finest album, ...

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2016

Apr

2016

So many great films to see for free in fine locations this week in the New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival. To choose just a few: - tonight (Tuesday) there's a chance to see Roman Polanski's Macbeth in the evocative setting of Deptford's ancient St Nicholas Church; - tomorrow night there's a 'Spiceworld the Movie' Spice ...

Convivium at Catford Constitutional Club

Apr

2016

South East London is becoming quite the centre for experimental and improvised music - so much so that SEEM (South East Experimental Music) has been established as 'a not-for-profit collective designed to promote the burgeoning scene of experimental, left-field, alternative, noisy, electroacoustic, acoustic, improvised, digital, electronic, etc. musics and sound art in our favourite corner ...

New Cross History Walks

Apr

2016

The main part of the Telegraph Hill Festival 2016 has been and gone, but a Telegraph Hill Festival Extra weekend is coming up on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 April) with a series of events including two local history walks on Sunday hosted by Malcolm Bacchus of the Telegraph Hill Society:Part 1: The Original Telegraph Hill ...

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

Apr

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 ...

Lewisham Pensioners Forum Big Book Sale

Apr

2016

Lewisham Pensioners Forum is holding another Big Book Sale fundraiser later this month - in fact the last it will be holding in its present location of the Saville Centre by Lewisham Hospital.The Big Book Sale takes place over three days: - Tues. 26 April: 12noon to 8pm- Wed. 27 April: 10am to 8pm- Thurs. 28 ...