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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...

Hilly Fields Wassail

Feb

2016

Wassailing is an old custom of drinking to the health of fruit trees to ensure a good harvest, most commonly associated with cider apples producing trees in the West Country. Tomorrow (Sunday 7th February) there's a Hilly Fields Wassail with music and refreshments at the orchard by the park's stone circle. It starts at 4 ...

Experimental music night at Vinyl Deptford

Feb

2016

This Saturday February 6th there's a night of experimental/improv music at Vinyl Deptford, the record shop and coffee bar at 4 Tanners Hill,London, SE8: 'a chance to to hear some rarely heard international musicians...Bernadette Zeilinger - (AT - recorders)Diego Mune - (AR - guitars)+ from BerlinMiriam Seiberstadt- (saxes)Lisa Simpson- (sewing machine)+Sue Lynch (sax, flute, clarinet)Richard ...

How Does it Feel to be Loved back at Montague Arms

Feb

2016

Indie pop/soul club How Does it Feel to be Loved? is back at the Montague Arms tomorrow night (Saturday February 6th), scene of its packed New Year's Eve party recently:'We're doing a series of one-off nights at venues in south London for the early part of 2016, and the first of these is at the ...

International football stickers on South London streets

Feb

2016

Some football stickers spotted on my rounds today, mostly in vicinity of Millwall FC. Every sticker tells a story...'No one likes us we don't care' is well known as the Millwall cry, but what about Sham Army? The latter refers to followers of 70s punk band Sham 69, also mentioned on sticker. The band took ...

Lucky Man at the Rivoli

Feb

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 ...

Mental Health Services: cuts to CAMHS and meeting in New Cross

Jan

2016

Interesting article in the Guardian this week on the difficulty children have getting help from NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The focus is on Childeric Primary School in SE14: 'In every classroom in Childeric primary school in New Cross, south-east London, there is a world map stuck to the wall. Ranged around the continents ...

Trelawney album launch at Montague Arms

Jan

2016

'Imagine Scott Walker fronting The Associates and then covering David Bowie’s Cat People, but straight outta Kernow' (The West Briton)South London's number one Cornish band Trelawney have been featured at Transpontine before - their song Beast of Blackheath is partly a reference to the crushing of the 1497 Cornish revolt which came to a bloody ...

Adventures in the Anthropecene – talk in Sydenham

Jan

2016

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 27th January 2016, 7:30 pm), Gaia Vince - author of Adventures in the Anthropocene - is giving a reading at Sydenham's fine Kirkdale Books. The book, which won the 2015Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, looks at 'Growing evidence from around the globe... that we are living in a permanently changed ...

Christ Stopped at Burgess Park: Arild Rosenkrantz (1870-1964)

Jan

2016

By Burgess Park in Wells Way SE5, in front of St George's Church (now flats), there stands a war memorial 'to the memory of those who served 1914-1918'. It features a bronze figure of Christ holding a crown of thorns. The statute was made in 1918 by the Danish artist Arild Rosenkrantz (1870-1964), an interesting ...

Music Monday: Anarcho punk 1984 in New Cross & Old Kent Road

Jan

2016

'Not Just Bits of Paper', edited by Tony Bull and Mickey Penguin is 'A series of recollections, memories, imagined dreams perhaps from the collective memories of those who lived through the punk and anarcho-punk years' of the 1980s (available from Situation Books). It includes lots of flyers and other 'ephemera' and I noticed these two ...