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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...

The Anarchist Festival in Lewisham Odeon that never was – 1986

Oct

2016

Lewisham Odeon opened as the Gaumont Palace cinema in 1932, and was renamed the Odeon in 1962. As mentioned here before it was the scene of many iconic gigs before it closed in 1981, being finally demolished in 1991 to make way for a road widening scheme in the town centre.In 1986, the Odeon was ...

Thurston Moore at Goldsmiths

Oct

2016

Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore is playing a night of improvised music with David Toop and Tania Chen at Goldsmiths in New Cross next month. The performance on 4 November 2016 takes place in Goldsmiths Great Hall described by Goldsmiths as 'a place with strong experimental energy'. Well John Cage played there (in 1980) and ...

‘Dancing went on as the police kept watch’ – Peckham 1967

Oct

2016

'Denying police charges, an angry wife who stood with her husband in a court witness box, described a chief inspectors's evidence as a 'tissue of lies' after allegations that couples had been seen dancing through midnight at an unlicensed Peckham Road club. Plain clothes police had mingled with couples drinking and dancing at the Blue ...

A Roman Stone Coffin in Deptford

Oct

2016

You can spend many hours browsing round the old Ordnance Survey maps of London and elsewhere that the National Library of Scotland has made available, free of charge.A feature of the 1893 map is that it includes some archaeological information, along with contemporary street plans. According to this map, a stone coffin was found in ...

Goldsmiths Rent Campaign

Oct

2016

Students at Goldsmiths in New Cross are planning to step up their campaign for a reduction in rents. Some students are continuing a rent strike they launched last year, and next week Goldsmiths, Cut the Rent is holding a meeting to launch the campaign for this year. The first meeting of the new term will take ...

We live in Brockley baby – Roy Ayers comes to SE4

Oct

2016

The latest mural in the Brockley area went up last week. Staring out from the side of Sids Plumbing and Heating Supplies (corner of Brockley Road and St Margaret's Road) is a portrait of US jazz/funk legend Roy Ayers, surrounded by lyrics from probably his best known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine. It was pained ...

Music Monday: Goat Girl

Oct

2016

South London band Goat Girl have recently signed to Rough Trade after making some noise locally with gigs at The Montague Arms, Peckham Safehouse and elsewhere. Actually one of them used to live opposite me on a certain street in SE14.Their first single, Country Sleaze, is just out and they are launching it later this ...

Crystal Palace Subway

Sep

2016

As part of Open House London this weekend, the old Crystal Palace Subway is open this weekend and I went along today. The subway, which opened in 1865, once linked the High Level Station to Crystal Palace Park, passing under Crystal Palace Parade. After the Crystal Palace was burned down in 1936, the need for ...

Bermondsey Folk Festival and films

Sep

2016

Bermondsey Folk Festival concluded in the sun last Sunday 11th September with a fine music stage at the Bermondsey Summer Fete at Compass School SE16,There was Irish dancing from Bermondsey-based Carragher Academy:And lots of good music - I caught the Bara Bara Band (who host Tooting Folk) and Tim Jones & The Dark Lanterns (pictured ...

117 Lewisham Way Revisited

Sep

2016

Ten years ago a rather grand but decaying house at 117 Lewisham Way, near to Goldsmiths College in New Cross, was demolished. The house had an interesting history, including a brief period as home for New Cross synagogue and a space for artists to live and work in. In its last days it was squatted ...