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...
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Acoustic Anarchy

Mar

21

2024

Martin Howard's Acoustic Anarchy has been running since 2017 at waterintobeer in Brockley (209 Mantle Road SE4), an acoustic live music night focusing on folk, punk and indie. There's a couple of events coming up in next few weeks.As part of the Telegraph Hill Festival this weekend, on Saturday 23rd March 2024 there's a special ...
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acoustic anarchy · Brockley · folk · Transpontine · waterintobeer

Music Monday: Sahra

Mar

18

2024

Brockley-based singer Sahra is another graduate of the great South London jazz finishing school that is Trinity Laban. She's been getting increasing attention for her new material, including an excellent live session on Giles Peterson's show on Worldwide FM last week. Her new single 'Alone Again' was recorded I believe at her partner Theo Erskine's studio ...
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Brockley · Music Monday · Transpontine

Music Monday: Sahra

Mar

18

2024

Brockley-based singer Sahra is another graduate of the great South London jazz finishing school that is Trinity Laban. She's been getting increasing attention for her new material, including an excellent live session on Giles Peterson's show on Worldwide FM last week. Her new single 'Alone Again' was recorded I believe at her partner Theo Erskine's studio ...
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Brockley · Music Monday · Transpontine

Goldsmiths: Redundancies protests/Palestine occupation

Mar

16

2024

A rally in the rain at Goldsmiths College last night (15 March 2024) brought together the fight against job cuts and the ongoing 'Goldsmiths for Palestine' occupation. Job CutsThe ongoing financial crisis at Goldsmiths seems to be reaching a critical point with senior management announcing on 28th February that as part of its 'Transformation Programme' it ...
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Goldsmiths · occupations · Palestine · Transpontine

Crystal Palace Dragon and Griffin

Mar

11

2024

Dragon and griffin in a Crystal Palace antique/vintage shop window (in Church Road). Fine 'lifesize' specimens - well who knows what size the real ones are? Apparently these were originally part of the Lightopia installation in Crystal Palace Park but were left behind when the company went bust in January 2023. 
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Crystal Palace · Transpontine

Music Monday: Goat Girl – Ride Around on Dawson’s Heights (and Nunhead)

Mar

4

2024

Ride Around, the new single from Goat Girl, features scenes shot by Dawson' Heights Estate in East Dulwich......and inside our current favourite local pizza place, Dinner for One Hundred's Bar D4100 in Evelina Road, Nunhead.Not sure about other locations - what do you reckon?
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Dawson's Heights · East Dulwich · Goat Girl · Music Monday · music videos · Nunhead · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

Peckham Peace Centre 1939

Feb

24

2024

The Peace Pledge Union was the main organisation of pacifists in Britain from its foundation in 1934, based on a pledge to 'renounce war and never support or sanction another'. It had an active Peckham branch, and in 1939 opened a local HQ at 158 Queens Road, Peckham, named after its founder Dick Sheppard.Peace News, ...
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pacifsts · peace movement · Peckham · Queens Road · Transpontine

Tales from a Disappearing City – Uncle G on Woolwich B-Boys and Acid House

Feb

23

2024

'Tales from a Disappearing City' is a great podcast with Controlled Weirdness interviewing people about their untold subcultural stories from his SE16 batcave. The latest one is a SE London cracker featuring Uncle G, also known as Urban Intelligence. Godfrey arrived in London with his family as political refugees from Chile in the 1970s and grew ...
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acid house · Albany (Deptford) · breakdancing · Planet Wax · raves · Transpontine · Woolwich

WW2 Peace Shop in Blackheath: ‘War will cease when men refuse to fight’

Feb

20

2024

During the Second World War, as in the First World War, there were pacifists who refused to serve in the armed forces because of their political and/or religious opposition to war. Many of these war resisters suffered time in prison, while others recognised as conscientious objectors were officially excused on the basis that they agreed ...
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Blackeath · peace movement · Transpontine · World War Two

Delivery Riders Strike and South London ‘Dark Kitchens’

Feb

6

2024

Notes from Below report on the recent food delivery riders strike:'On Friday 2 February thousands of food delivery riders, demanding a pay rise, took strike action against all of the apps, in over 90 zones across London, Brighton, Liverpool, Bath and Glasgow. The strike demanded a pay increase. In 2017, Deliveroo paid a minimum £4 ...
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Bermondsey · dark kitchens · deliveroo · SE14 · SE15 · SE16 · strikes · Transpontine