Sunday, March 30, 2025

Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers in Brixton (1992) - as reported by undercover police

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Bobby Seale was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party in the USA and like many of its activists bore the brunt of repression from t...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Deptford Literature Festival 2025

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Plenty of interesting talks, workshops and other events in this year's Deptford Literature Festival including 'Lewisham Lyricists...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Telegraph Hill Festival 2025

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Lots of great events coming up in the 2025 Telegraph Hill Festival (March 29 2025 to April 13th 2025) including a whole thread of green/env...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Music Monday: Loose Talk TV (1983) - when Tom Waits, Grace Jones and Sade touched down in Deptford

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Loose Talk was a short lived Channel 4 music/arts and chat show that ran for two series in 1983. It was recorded in front of a live audience...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

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New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in B...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Music Monday: Laura Misch - Alchemy on Hilly Fields

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Laura Misch might be touring internationally at the moment but but she continues to deepen her relationship with South London landscape and ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Stealing Good Times from Bad - 80s casual fashions in Bermondsey

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In the Face magazine, July 1984, Robert Elms wrote an article 'Good Times'. A follow up to his 1982 article 'Hard Times', i...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Music Monday: Peckham Blancmange

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Synth duo Blancmange had a string of early 1980s hits, starting with Living on the Ceiling in 1982. Singer Neil Arthur hailed from Lancashir...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Swedenborg Churches in South London (Deptford, Camberwell, Norwood)

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 The visionary Christianity of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) had a big impact on the more mystically inclined believers in the 18th and 19t...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Valentines weekend 2025 in Deptford and Lewisham, including 'Horrible Music for Horrible People'

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 'An evening of love, intimacy, erotica and indulgence' at Little Nan's in Deptford: Jungyalentines at Fox and Firkin, a Jungyal...
Sunday, February 09, 2025

Chumbawamba, Levellers and more: New Cross Venue 1991

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I have posted previously about the Venue in New Cross Road, closed since Covid but in the early 1990s one of the top live music places in Lo...
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Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

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Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk ...