Rubbish & Nasty, New Cross Road - noughties ''nu-rave squat-chic"

Was chatting today about noughties New Cross and was reminded of Rubbish and Nasty, a music/retro clothes shop that was at 308 New Cross Road from around 2006-8. It was part of a row of interesting places including Prangsta (304), Cafe Crema (306), and a little earlier the squatted coffee shop at 310. All in a row living under the curse of threatened redevelopment by the landlord, Goldsmiths College (at time of writing mostly empty).

I believe it was run by Ian McQuaid, who used to work at Morps record shop, downstairs in Moonbow Jake's cafe (I think he also put on the Fear of Music nights at the Montague Arms).  Also running the shop was Sophi Soni who created a great Rubbish Fairy shrine behind the shop.

Found a couple of photos of the shrine, including this one from Darryl SE7

...and this one from the Rubbish Fairy herself, on insta now as house_of_doll

The place was mentioned in an article by Joe Muggs, 'Is New Cross the New Camden' in the Standard (9 Nov 2007) which proclaimed it as the haunt of 'nu-rave squat-chic types'

They put on some gigs/parties there, remember seeing Lost Penguin there in 2006.