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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...

Seriously Staked: A Vampire Convention in New Cross

Feb

2014

Coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross next month, ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) present the 'Seriously Staked Vampire Symposium' Look beyond the Twilight and True Blood frenzy and there is, and always has been, a serious study of vampires. Seriously Staked on March 8th brings together a wide variety of ...

Chinese New Year in Deptford + Deptford High Street Song

Feb

2014

Chinese New Year was marked in Deptford in Saturday with a lion dance procession from the Deptford Lounge to the Albany, where the Yam, Yam! East and South East Asian Arts and Food Festival is now on until March 15th.There was a classic Deptford Market moment where the lion got in a face off with ...

John Goto – Lovers Rock: Lewisham portraits from 1977

Feb

2014

In 1977, John Goto was teaching evening classes at Lewisham Youth Centre. He took a series of portrait photographs of people dressed up ready for the dance hall at the Centre which 36 years later have seen the light of a day in a remarkable book - Lover's Rock.1977 was a heavy year in a ...

Music Monday: Little Mix in Peckham Chapel

Feb

2014

Litte Mix's most recent single 'Little Me' is in the great tradition of feminist-lite empowerment anthems. Song-wise it's not quite up there with Christina Aguilera's Beautiful or TLC's Unpretty - but hey, what is?Of course if you are going to sing a song advising your younger self to overcome adversity and 'Talk a bit louder, be a ...

SE London Strikes and Protests Round-up

Feb

2014

A quick round up of strikes and protests...Staff at Goldsmiths and other universities are staging another one day strike next Thursday in the ongoing national pay campaign. The last, two hour, strike on January 28th, was reported in Goldsmiths paper The Leopard:'As the nation-wide strike began, protesters took the opportunity to address the large mass ...

Layer Cake – Daniel Craig in Greenwich Park

Feb

2014

Sienna Miller's sometime 'brief encounter' with Daniel Craig has been making the news, after the former gave evidence as a witness in the News of the World phone-hacking trial yesterday. Miller and Craig appeared together - and had a fictional brief encounter - in Matthew Vaughn's 2004 London gangster movie 'Layer Cake'. As well as Craig ...

Split Enz in Forest Hill

Jan

2014

Split Enz were the most internationally successful New Zealand band of the 1970s/early 80s. After touring Australia in support of Roxy Music, they moved to London in 1976 where Roxy's Phil Manzanera (ex-Dulwich College incidentally) produced their 'Second Thoughts' album. By this point band founder Tim Finn had been joined in the band by his ...

1890s (?) map of Brockley/New Cross/Nunhead/Lewisham

Jan

2014

A friend gave me this old Brockley-centred street map. It is printed one-sided on folded card, so was presumably a stand alone map to carry in the pocket rather than part of a book. But it is clearly one of a collection as it refers to other sheet numbers for adjoining maps.But when was it ...

Supermarket Self-Checkout – is scanning kind of scabbing?

Jan

2014

Always been a Marc Almond fan musically, and I think we can claim a bit of him for South London as he lived around the Bermondsey Street area for quite a while (not sure he still does). In fact he's just about to release an exciting-sounding London-themed album 'The Tyburn Tree' with John Harle, which ...

Peckham Rent Strike 1930s

Jan

2014

In the 1930s, Peckham was the scene of a successful rent strike. The focus was the Nigel Buildings tenements, which I think were situated roughly where the Troy Town flats are now off Nigel Road SE15. I found this account online, source seems to be an article (undated) in The Morning Star and I believe ...