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Featured local business - Clubtek

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SE23

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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...

Giant at Bussey Building

Nov

2013

A top night of house and disco at the Bussey Building this Friday 22 November:'Giant returns to Peckham's Bussey Building on Friday Nov 22nd after a sold out opening party in October. We switch things around for part 2 moving the house to the middle floor to accommodate our heavyweight tag team of Atjazz and ...

London CryptoFestival in New Cross

Nov

2013

The CryptoFestival is coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross on Saturday November 30th. They say:'Freaked out by spiralling revelations of NSA surveillance? Worried that the spooks have subverted the internet at every level to make it a vast, multi-layered panopticon? Or simply creeped out by the way services like Facebook & Gmail track everything you ...

Undercover with the Bushwackers

Nov

2013

Yesterday's Telegraph had an interview with James Bannon, who infiltrated Millwall firm the Bushwackers as an undercover cop in the late 1980s:'At 7pm on Friday April 3 1987, two novice undercover police officers left Brockley police station for a drive down the Old Kent Road in south London. These were grim miles of looming tower ...

Music Monday: Count on Me – Chase & Status with Moko

Nov

2013

I love Count on Me, the most recent single from Chase & Status. Well I'm an unreconstructed 1990s clubber, so what's not to like about piano samples (from 1992's Nush?), breakbeats and uplifting vocals. Yes I know it's been out a couple of months, but I've only just uncovered its local connections.Singer Moko is a ...

Shell stations picketed in Greenpeace protests

Nov

2013

Several Shell petrol stations in South London were among 70 fuelling stations in the UK picketed yesterday as part of an international day of solidarity with 'the 30 people who were detained on a Greenpeace International ship by armed Russian security forces and imprisoned. Next week will mark two months since the 30 were detained ...

Amnesty International Book Sale in Blackheath

Nov

2013

Next week is the annual Amnesty International Book Sale in Blackheath, a regular date in the diary of all south London bibliophiles. Here's the details:'The Blackheath and Greenwich Group of Amnesty International is holding its annual fund-raising book sale on Saturday 23 November at the Church of the Ascension, Dartmouth Row, London SE10 (10 minutes ...

New Cross People’s Kitchen

Nov

2013

This from the fine people at New Cross Commoners:'Dear Friend, we would like to invite you to a free communal meal in the heart of New Cross!The New Cross people’s kitchen seeks to create a convivial activity around food, from its collection, to its cooking and eating, in order to get in contact with different ...

Deptford Comment – 1970s newsletter

Nov

2013

I've come across a couple of mentions of an early 1970s publication called 'Deptford Comment'. The following advert for it was published in underground paper International Times (April 9 1970, no.77): 'Policy to provide information and arouse concern about injustice, discrimination, apathy and neglect. Caring about what happens to ordinary people in Deptford. It is ...

Music Monday: Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Nov

2013

The singing voice of an anonymous South London homeless man has moved people around the world long after his death. The composer Gavin Bryars built his piece Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet around a recording made in 1971. As he recalls:'In 1971, when I lived in London, I was working with a friend, Alan ...

Fall of the Berlin Wall Exhibition at New Cross Learning

Nov

2013

Adrian Harris is a long standing local community/environmental activist. In November 1989 he was in Berlin at the momentous moment when the Wall came down. An exihibition of his photographs from that time are on display at New X Learning (283 New Cross Road) until 28 November, and Adrian will be giving a talk on ...