Grapes of Wrath Anniversary Party in New Cross

Tomorrow night (Friday 2nd May ) at Cafe Crema they are celebrating the 75th birthday of John Steinbeck;s The Grapes of Wrath 'and also supporting Hope not Hate's campaign against UKIP and the BNP - with a gig and piano jam hoedown. 8 'til late. £3. Please bring tapping toes and antifascist sentiments'. 

Music from Reverand Casy and The Devout Sceptics, at Cafe Crema 306 New Cross Road SE14 6AF. Text 07905 961 876 to book. 

John Steinbeck lived in London in the summer of 1943, working as a war reporter for the New York Herald Tribune (his pieces were later collected in the book 'Once there was a War'). Not sure if he ever came down the New Cross Road though.