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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...

Music Monday: The Spaceape RIP

Oct

2014

Stephen Gordon, who recorded as the Spaceape, died earlier this month after living with cancer for several years.This is from Melissa Bradshaw's obituary of him in the Guardian (24 October 2014):'The Spaceape, who has died of cancer aged 44, was a poet, vocalist and MC from London who took the Jamaican dub poetry tradition into a ...

Grayson Perry puts South London transgender man in the National Portrait Gallery

Oct

2014

Grayson Perry has a new TV series on Channel 4, Who are You?, featuring him exploring identity through making portraits of people he meets. There is an accompanying exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which opened this week and continues until March next year (admission free).The first episode features an episode of transgender man Alex ...

The Specials at Lewisham Odeon

Oct

2014

Nice piece in the Guardian today by Jon Dennis on the Specials as 'the music that changed my life': 'The Specials' Gangsters symbolised the fight against the fascists at my front door'. The author grew up in Lewisham, and recals:'London was drab and frightening in the late 70s, nowhere more so than Lewisham, where I ...

Day of the Dead Silent Disco/New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival 2015

Oct

2014

Planning is already starting for next year's New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival. The last couple of years have seen thousands of people watching interesting films for free in all sorts of unusual locations (parks, churches, tattoo parlours...). If you want to get involved at any level - showing films, publicity, suggesting venues - ...

‘Blacks Brittanica’ in New Cross

Oct

2014

This Thursday 30th October, 7pm in the Cinema (room RHB 185) at Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW:'South London Anti-Fascists are proud to host a screening of David Koff's 1978 documentary 'Blacks Britannica'.Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about ...

Spiritualized at the Venue: ‘Trendy Spot’ in New Cross, 1991

Oct

2014

Came across this in archive of LSE student magazine, The Beaver, 9 December 1991. 'Baby Lemonade' reviews a gig at the New Cross Venue by Spiritualized - 'a band for the post rave 90s' no less'. The bands at the Venue at this time were only part of the night out, as the author notes: ...

The Common Greene – Reading Deptford History through Peter Linebaugh (in New Cross on Monday)

Oct

2014

Radical historian and theorist of the commons Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged, The Many-Headed Hydra (with Marcus Rediker), The Magna Carta Manifesto, and introductions to a Verso book of Thomas Paine’s writing and PM’s new edition of E.P. Thompson’s William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. Linebaugh works at the University of Toledo, ...

Rivoli Fundraiser for Save Lewisham Hospital

Oct

2014

A couple of weeks ago I was out for a run, and we came across somebody on Ladywell Fields who had fallen off her bike and cut her head. There was no panic - we knew we were just around the corner from Lewisham Hospital's A&E Department, and when we called for an ambulance it ...

Burston School Strike 1916: a meeting in Bermondsey

Oct

2014

The Burston School Strike in Norfolk was arguably the longest running dispute in British history, and a cause celebre across the country. Tom and Annie Higdon, teachers at the village school in Burston, Norfolk, were sacked in 1914 in a dispute with the school's managing body. Children at the school walked out in support of ...

NHS Strike – ‘Pay Midwives some respect’ at St Thomas’ SE1

Oct

2014

Protest outside St Thomas' Hospital, SE1 Health workers across South London took part in yesterday's national strike action over NHS pay, braving the rain to protest at hospitals across the area during the four hour walkout. Like many workers, those in the NHS have seen their real income fall in the past few years. This year, ...