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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...

Sound systems in New Cross & Deptford

Jun

2015

Tomorrow (Sunday 29 June 2015), Unit 137 reggae sound system will be out in New Cross, set up next to New Cross fire station in Queens Road, with BBQ and Rum Bar. Free entry, 1 pm - 6 pm. See Facebook event detailsMore reggae sounds on 18th July with The Deptford Dub Club returning to The ...

‘Working Illegally’: Detention Centre film in Deptford

Jun

2015

Coming up next month - Thursday, July 23rd, 6:30pm - at Goldsmiths Students Union (Dixon Road SE14), South London Anti-Fascists present a screening of the film Working Illegally that 'exposes the ever increasing phenomenon of coerced labour in detention centres... Told primarily through detainees' testimonies, based on original research by Corporate Watch, this film offers ...

Cornelius Cardew in New Cross, and a ballad of East Street

Jun

2015

'Cornelius Cardew (1936-81): a life unfinished' by John Tilbury (Copula, 2008) is a monumental biography of the radical composer by one of his closest collaborators. Its 1100 pages document in close detail Cardew's musical and political life, cut short at the age of 45 when he was hit by a car in East London.Cardew became ...

New Cross Independent Label Fair

Jun

2015

'Let's celebrate summer and sunshine one of the longest days of the year! On Saturday the 20th of June we're calling out to all you record collectors and music enthusiasts. New Cross Inn transforms for ONE DAY ONLY bringing you a handful of London's finest independent music labels.Expect a wide variety of musical genres, some of the freshest ...

South East London Giants – Australian Rules on Peckham Rye

Jun

2015

If those four-in-a-row posts on Peckham Rye are a mystery to you, you need to check out Australian rules football. The oval pitch on the Rye is the home of South East London Giants, our local Aussie Rules team. They have two men's teams and a women's team, and still have over a month left ...

Cyclist deaths, 1914 and 2015

Jun

2015

Cyclists lay down in the road and blocked traffic on Monday night in Camberwell, to mark the death on 29 May of Esther Hartsilver. Esther , a physiotherapist at Kings College Hosptial, was killed when hit by a lorry while cycling close to the hospital in Denmark Hill. She was the sixth cyclist killed on ...

1915 London Tram Strike in New Cross

Jun

2015

A hundred years ago this week, tram workers in London were sacked for going on strike and sent off to war. The London tram strike was prompted by the rising cost of living - the 7,000 strikers demanded a 'war bonus'. The response of the employer, London County Council (LCC), was to sack all men ...

Music Monday: Steven Ball – Collected Local Songs

Jun

2015

Steven Ball's Collected Local Songs, released in February, is an album that is as local as it gets in terms of Deptford. Ball describes it as 'a collection of songs of quotidian and local reflection, mostly constructed from everyday language, observations, overheard conversations, encounters, signs, community notices, announcements, phrases from historical texts about Victorian social ...

‘Reclaiming our University’ at Goldsmiths

May

2015

Tomorrow at Goldsmiths in New Cross, Goldsmiths UCU (lecturers/academics union) is hosting a 'Reclaiming Our University' conference. They say:'The marketisation of Higher Education has radically undermined the idea of the university as a public institution – gearing institutional priorities towards what is financially profitable rather than socially and culturally worthwhile. In this context of intense ...

London Urban Legends at Brockley Max

May

2015

Brockley Max Festival starts tomorrow, lots of arts and music coming up over next couple of weeks, starting with the usual opening night music event by Brockley station. You can check the programme for full list of events, for now just want to highlight an event next Monday June 1st (8 pm) at the Ladywell ...