Monday, September 07, 2026

Music Monday: Always on your side - Bonobo with Joy Crookes

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Bonobo's new album 'Distance in Static' is due out at the end of this week. Loving the track featuring Joy Crookes - 'Always...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Paul Simon in Catford, August 1965 (and other Catford folk tales)

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Simon and Garfunkel released their first album,  'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', in 1964 but at the time this did not generate a lot of...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Music Monday: South of the Thames - Skalah ft. Novelist

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  Skalah and Novelist at the Elephant Great new track from up and coming Skalah with grime veteran Novelist.  'I'm from the town, I...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Battle of Lewisham 1977 on Sister Midnight FM

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Last week (13 August) saw the anniversary of the 1977 'Battle of Lewisham' when local communities and anti-racists from all over the...
Friday, August 14, 2026

Eclipse 2026 in Telegraph Hill Park

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The partial solar eclipse was a joyous occasion. Telegraph Hill Park (top park, pictured) in New Cross was packed with thousands of people, ...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

Levellers squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts, 1986

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In the early 1980s the former Odeon cinema site in Camberwell, on the corner of Denmark Hill and Coldharbour Lane, became a branch of the di...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

'Dooneen' by Keith Ridgway - from Burgess Park to revolutionary Dublin

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I loved Keith Ridgway's novel Dooneen, set in an alternative present version of Dublin where housing struggles are intensifying towards ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Beer and coffee latest: ex-White Hart opening in New Cross, new coffee shop by Nunhead station and much more

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As always lots going on in the SE London beer and coffee zone.  Best news is that a new pub is set to open shortly on the site of the former...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Comic, Zine and Bookfairs, Summer 2026

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It's hard to keep up with the flourishing zine, comics and book fairs happening at the moment, which I see as a very positive sign. This...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Happy 35th birthday 56a Infoshop

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Popped along yesterday to the 35th birthday party for 56a Infoshop, the boutique radical social centre/archive/bookshop at 56a Crampton Stre...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

General Strike 1926: a riverside clash in Charlton

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It is now a hundred years since the General Strike of May 1926, when workers all over the country walked out on strike in support of miners....
Friday, May 15, 2026

Peter J Carroll (RIP) , Speedwell House sorcerer & co-creator of Chaos Magic in 1970s Deptford

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The occultist  Peter J Carroll died recently, best known as one of the founders of the Chaos Magic current. As he reflected last year: ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Deptford May Day Festival and Jack in the Green 2026

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Deptford is bringing in the May this year with Full Bloom, a weekend music and beer festival: 'Led by Villages Brewery and a network of ...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

Goldsmiths occupation against new round of cuts

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  Students at Goldsmiths University of London have occupied the college library in New Cross in protest against another round of cuts threat...
Friday, April 17, 2026

"New Cross Hell on Earth"

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Ludicrous rant going round on line from a far right wannabe influencer who apparently commutes by train into New Cross from Kent and then ge...
Monday, April 13, 2026

The Pogues on HMS Belfast, 1985

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In 1985, the Pogues launched their great second album 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' with a party on HMS Belfast, the retired Royal Navy...
Monday, April 06, 2026

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2026

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 The 2026  New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival   starts on 24 April and promises '21 events across ten days, with venues ranging f...
Sunday, April 05, 2026

Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair in New Cross, April 2026

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Coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross next week (April 11th), the  Sticky Fingers Publishing  Fair 'Join us for a fair celebrating femini...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Figurant at Strange Parade

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A mesmerising audiovisual performance at Strange Parade in Nunhead last month (28 February 2026), with Inga Tillere's film piece accompa...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

South London Landscape History

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I strongly recommend 'Commonplace: a South London Landscape History', a series of limited edition zines/pamphlets written by John Gr...