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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...

Save Lewisham Hospital Victory Dance

Aug

2013

The Save Lewisham Hospital campaign secured a historic legal victory last month when the High Court ruled that the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, had acted unlawfully in deciding to substantially cut services and close departments at Lewisham Hospital.However the fight is not over yet, as on the last day it could ...

The Trailer TV

Aug

2013

The Trailer TV is 'Pirate TV show showcasing fresh talent making moves in the underground music scene' broadcasting live from the the trailer at the Big Red on Deptford Church Street (the converted bus next to the Birds Nest pub).This Thurday (29 August), with support from Hyperdub, it will feature DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn. ...

Music Monday: Filthy Boy

Aug

2013

A big summer for Filthy Boy, playing festivals and getting national radio airplay for their new single That Life (from their album 'Smile that won't go down').The young band, based in the Peckham/Nunhead area, played early gigs at the Ivy House and recently had a friends and family gig at the Old Nun's Head. Singer Paraic ...

Free gig at the Herb Garden

Aug

2013

If you've never experienced free jazz in the Herb Garden in Deptford, you really should. I went to the Lol Coxhill memorial there last year and it was great. This Bank Holiday Monday August 26th, Tom Scott, Rob Mills, Sue Lynch, Arnold Lane, Eddie Real and David Aylward will be performing, plus special guest. 5 ...

Estuary and Stevedores

Aug

2013

I went to the Estuary exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, featuring the 'work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea' with its 'dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts'. It's ...

The Walpole Vanishes

Aug

2013

The Walpole Inn in New Cross Road has now been completely demolished. It closed last year, and planning permission has been granted for a hotel to be built there. The adjoining buildings that lately housed the tattoo parlour and hairdressers have also gone.When I went past a couple of months ago, most of it had ...

Peckham Rye Village Hall Experience

Aug

2013

You do all know this is happening tomorrow (Saturday) don't you?The Village Hall Experience is a free event on Saturday 17th August 2013 from 1 pm as part of The Elephant & The Nun Festival. It takes place at The Old Lido, Peckham Rye, London SE15 (that's the bit of Peckham Rye nearest to Rye ...

Book and Candle: a Nunhead Cemetery Mystery

Aug

2013

Walking in Nunhead Cemetery recently I noticed a grave with an old book on it, and a tealight candle which had evidently been lit.Was there some connection between the book and the grave's inhabitants? Had a descendant of the deceased placed it there as well lighting a candle in their memory? Opening the book I was ...

Dulwich Hamlet FC – Transpontine Team

Aug

2013

I have enough troubles of my own supporting a non-league club (one time old First Division) who are not from South London, without taking up the cause of Dulwich Hamlet FC. Still I notice with interest some of the banners that have been adorning their ground in recent times.There's a Pride of South London banner......a ...

Freshly Packed at Deptford Lounge

Aug

2013

Next Saturday 17th August, Something Human present FRESHLY PACKED: EAT TO LIVE by Peruvian performance artist Lorena Lo Peña at the Deptford Lounge (Giffin Street SE8):'Eat to Live investigates excess and self-destructive behaviours when the body is used as the main site of punishment. Based on autobiographical experiences, the performance addresses bulimia and binge eating, highlighting how eating disorders are ...