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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: John Lunn, from minimalist funk to Downton Abbey

Dec

2013

New Cross/Telegraph Hill resident John Lunn has become one of the country's most successful composers for TV, commended in particular for his music for Downton Abbey. In September he was awarded his second Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for his work on the show (he discusses the music here).In the 1980s, Lunn was a member of 'systems ...

Brockley Brewery – ‘brewed with love in SE4’

Dec

2013

Brockley Brewery opened in March 2013 in a former builders' yard in Harcourt Road, SE4. They are now brewing three beers (Golden, Pale and Red Ales) which you can sample in local pubs such as the Royal Albert, the Ivy House, the Dog & Bell and Jam Circus. You can also pop into the brewery ...

Transpontine: Word of the Day

Dec

2013

Thanks to No Yeah No on twitter for spotting that yesterday's word of the day on dictionary.com was... transpontine.They came up with a couple of good quotes to go with it:'There was nothing left but to retreat against the railing, and with my back turned to the street, pretend to be admiring the barges on ...

Question Time in Lewisham Again

Dec

2013

Last January BBC Question Time was broadcast from Goldsmiths in New Cross at the height of the campaign to Save Lewisham Hospital. The campaign dominated the night, both outside where there was a demonstration, and inside where the issue was the big story on the programme itself.A year later, on Thursday 9 January 2014, the ...

Old Kent Road 1983: A Smash Hits Advert

Dec

2013

Like Punk Never Happened- Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits Archive is a great site featuring fortnightly scans of issues of the pop magazine from 30 years ago. This Premium Bonds advert from June 23 1983 features a young woman standing by an Old Kent Road street sign and dreaming of an advance to Mayfair (i.e. from the ...

Convoys Wharf – critical meeting this week

Dec

2013

Deptford is..., which is spearheading local opposition to current plans to develop Convoys Wharfon the Deptford riverfront, is reminding people that a crucial meeting is coming up this week. They say:'you are probably already aware that the planning application for redevelopment of the Royal Dockyard/Convoys Wharf site has been called in by the Mayor of ...

Music Monday: Elephants and Castles in Jenny’s, New Cross Road

Dec

2013

So much good music about at the minute that I'm going to do two Music Monday posts today, both of them featuring videos shot in Deptford. As well as King Krule filming from the Birds Nest we have Elephants and Castles (featured here previously) with the video for their new song shot in Jenny's cafe in ...

Music Monday: King Krule on East Dulwich History (& filmed in Deptford)

Dec

2013

It's been a good year for King Krule (Archy Marshall), with his debut album 6 Feet Below the Moon released in the summer and getting good reviews. Last week (7 December) he was interviewed on Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 6 show .19-year-old Marshall, who went to Forest Hill Boys School and the Brits School in ...

Firefighters strike in South London

Dec

2013

There was solid support at South London fire stations for the national strike last night. Firefighters walked out between 6 pm and 10 pm over plans to raise their retirement age from 55 to 60 and increase their pension contributions. There will be another strike between the same times next Saturday night.Here's a few pictures ...

A teacher remembers Mandela’s visit to Brixton

Dec

2013

Graham Jameson (on the right in above picture), who some of you may know from his time as head of Edmund Waller Primary School in New Cross, recalls the day in July 1996 when he took children from Walnut Tree Walk school in Kennington to meet Nelson Mandela on his visit to Brixton:'The picture I ...