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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: 30 years of Band of Holy Joy

May

2013

It is now 30 years since Band of Holy Joy were formed in New Cross, and they're still going strong (albeit with some big gaps along the way!).One of their first releases was a 1984 cassette 'More Favourite Fairytales' put out by Glasgow-based Pleasantly Surprised. The sleevenotes say: 'Holy Joy were formed in the summer of ...

Music at Guys

May

2013

I was in Guys Hospital last week, waiting in the ENT was pretty grim mainly because they had a TV on really loud with horse racing followed by Noel Edmonds. This where people with hearing problems were listening out for someone to call out their name! But then a guy wandered in with a guitar ...

Gaggle Cave

May

2013

Gaggle, the twenty strong all-women alternative choir, are taking up residency later this month at the InSitu Project Space - the Royal Albert pub's new gallery space next to the pub at 460 New Cross Cross Road. For three weeks (May 30th - June 21s) Gaggle will be running it as 'a one of a kind concept shop, gallery ...

A Grove Park Childhood

May

2013

Tomorrow (Thursday) at New Cross Learning, New Cross Local History Group presents 'A Grove Park Childhood'. Pauline Payne will give an illustrated talk on growing up on the Lewisham council estate in the 1940s and 50s. 6:30 pm start.

History Corner: New Cross Gate Cutting

May

2013

A fascinating tour of London Wildlife Trust's New Cross Gate Cutting/Brockley nature reserve last weekend in the company of New Cross Commoners, with volunteer warden Steve Cleall giving us an insight into the site's history and wildlife.The reserve, situated alongside the railway line with its entrance on Vesta Road SE4, is a great slice of ...

There are some tights that never go out

May

2013

Dress by Anna of Akleriah'Moonbow' John McKiernan, sometime purveyor of fine coffee to the masses of SE London, has for the past few years been putting on art events in London and Kent under the umbrella of Platform 7. The latest initiative, with Russian/Czech art duo Akleriah, is 'RE-IMAGINING LADIES TIGHTS' taking place at 10 Catford Broadway, SE6 ...

Music Monday: Maria Minerva

May

2013

The video for Maria Minerva's new track Soulsearchin was filmed by Laid Eyes around various SE London locations in Catford (the cat feaures), Lewisham , Peckham (Rye Lane) and Brockley. The last part was seemingly shot in Aladdins Cave salvage yard on Loampit Vale SE13. At one point Maria clambers over the old Russian tank in Mandela ...

Support St Christophers Hospice

May

2013

Five years ago my good friend Katy Watson died in St Christophers Hospice in Sydenham. A plaque on a park bench in Brockwell Park remembers her as a writer, feminist activist and mother, to which I could add many other things including DJ and Brixtonite.In her last days, St Christophers Hospice took good care of ...

The Animal That Therefore I Am

May

2013

Local artists Cait Peterson and Wiggy Cheung have an exhibition opening next week at the House Gallery in Camberwell (70 Camberwell Church Street). 'The Animal That Therefore I Am' features animal-themed paintings, drawings, and taxidermy, and is in support of the mental health charities Rethink and Mind. The show will run from 13-29 May (closed Bank Holiday ...

Dulwich Festival Fair

May

2013

Lots going on at the Dulwich Festival over the next couple of weeks, including next Sunday 12th May the free Dulwich Festival Fair on Goose Green (opposite East Dulwich Tavern). SE London's premier folk promoters Goose on the Green are organising a music stage there, with line up including- 12 noon The Dulwich Folk Choir led ...