Wednesday, January 26, 2005

People's Republic of Disco

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Went to the Windmill in Brixton on Saturday for People's Republic of Disco . For those who don't know, the premise is that everybod...

New Cross Red Cross Crawl

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Bit of a late one here but recently our friend Bongo Tom has burst forth, literally frothing, about this local music event. There is a music...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Down at the Cross Bones

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John Constable is Southwark’s shamanic poet, singer of songs and teller of tales of the lost history and magic of London’s outlaw borough. I...
Monday, January 24, 2005

Piper at the Gates of Sainsbury

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Entering New Cross from Peckham, the first real landmark you encounter is the sacred ground of the Montague Arms followed by the cross-roads...
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End of the Affair?

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The Slutski messages at New Cross have been painted over again but there was a new piece of writing in the tunnel that leads to the London ...
Friday, January 21, 2005

Gang of Four in New Cross

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So one of the greatest bands of all time decide to play their first gig in 20 years and where do they choose to play - The Montague Arms of...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Desperately Seeking Slutski

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I first saw it written in the tunnel and on the poster hoardings of New Cross station. Some one was asking, in black marker pen, for someone...

Sounds of SE14

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New Cross and surrounding area has been a source of musical creativity from the Music Hall-era through to punk, reggae and up to the present...
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Monday, January 17, 2005

Get stuck into The Gluerooms

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I'm very fond of the Gluerooms , the monthly experimental and improv night that takes place at the Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, Ne...
Thursday, January 13, 2005

Shaun of the Dead

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Despite being set entirely in Crouch End, the exterior shots around "The Winchester" pub, a main feature in this very British zomb...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

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Another New Cross-linked band was 60s pranksters The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (best known for 'Urban Spaceman'). The band's Neil I...

Made in SE London

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According to the South London Press, Daniel Bedingfield recorded his first album, 'Gotta Get Thru This' in his bedroom at his parent...
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Monday, January 10, 2005

It's Halloween (apparently)

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New Cross & Deptford have quietly appeared in quiet a few recent films, either filled with vampires in 'Interview with the Vampire...
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Saturday, January 08, 2005

Away with the Fairies in Greenwich

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At South East London Folklore Society on Monday 10th January, Jeremy Harte will be speaking on 'Explore Fairy Traditions'. Jeremy H...
Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Re:cycles

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If your new year resolution is to get fitter you could do worse than check out Greenwich cyclists . They have a number of rides arranged aro...

The Swear

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New Cross indie darlings The Swear are headlining The Baby Seal Club at Infinity (10 Old Burlington St, Mayfair) on Thursday 6th January al...
Sunday, January 02, 2005

New Year in New Cross

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At five to twelve, the band in Skehans pub was belting out a Waterboys cover, while the sound of a gospel choir drifted out from the House o...
Thursday, December 23, 2004

Winter Folk Stuff in SE London

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That was a year and a half, really. I am now off to be sealed in to the trunk of an enchanted oak-tree, somewhere on Telegraph Hill, New Cro...
Sunday, December 19, 2004

Damaged Goods

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The new Asda supermarket on the Old Kent Road occupies the site where two of the best albums of the late 1970s were recorded- 'Entertain...
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Friday, December 17, 2004

Bellevue rendezvous

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Back in New Cross, Cafe Crema, at 306 New Cross Road next door to Prangsta and Cyclic Art, is having " mighty soul voice " of Bel...
Thursday, December 16, 2004

Scaledown: SE London invades Fitzrovia (or something)

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Scaledown is a brilliant music club runs by a south-east Londoner in the upstairs room of the King & Queen pub, 1 Foley St, W1W 6DL. T...

Tickets to Heaven

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If you're free this weekend, which may be a long shot, I don't know, why not get really into the Yule spirit with Geoids Amateur Op...
Sunday, December 12, 2004

Indiepop

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Treated myself yesterday to the wonderful Rough Trade shops Indiepop 1 compilation, transporting me back to the late 1980s, Talulah Gosh , ...
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Friday, December 10, 2004

The Longest Night

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21st December is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. The sun will rise over London at 8.03 am. A good, if cold, place to watc...
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SELFS Yule Quiz

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It’s the SELFS Yule quiz on Monday 13th December from 7.30pm and social which means everyone gets into SELFS free, have a laugh and try and...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Use Your Loaf

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The Use Your Loaf Collective are back in action, several months after their Deptford centre was evicted. While still looking for a new perma...
Monday, December 06, 2004

So Farewell then Pop of the Tops

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Pop of the tops started life as an eager, wide-eyed and mildly loopy guitar music club as the much-missed Paradise Bar. It's was loud, ...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

South London Radical History Group

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We’re back, we’re bad, it’s the return of the SOUTH LONDON RADICAL HISTORY GROUP So. Though our regular venue, the very lovely Use Your L...
Sunday, November 28, 2004

Saving the Commons

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Back from the pleasingly packed Anarchist Bookfair , clutching the usual collection of radical product from the four corners of the world, i...
Friday, November 26, 2004

Live at the Montague Arms 1971

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Here's the cover of the now legendary 1971 album referred to below . More details here .
Thursday, November 25, 2004

On The Lookout

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The music clubs of south-London are like mushrooms. They spring up in all sorts of unlikely places and if you go ahead and try them they are...

Magical Pubs in South London Pt. 2

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This is a continuation, due to length, of the Magical pub list I started here. The Dog & Bell , Deptford Loving this place is a sign...
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Magical Pubs in South London

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A comment attached to Neil’s ‘ Magic Pubs of South London ’ post read: “The Wickham Arms in Brockley is a great little pub as well.” Whic...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Reclaim the Venue!

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Once upon a time The Venue in New Cross was one of the best places in London for bands. In fact, even before it was refurbished as The Venu...
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Souk

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Souk is the weekend party at the end of a week long ‘Islamic Awareness Week’ taking place this week at The Globe Theatre on Bankside. The ...

The Art of Noise

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Philbin also brings me news of another music / art cross-over. Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, SE14, has monthly improvised music sessi...

What Sound?

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Philbin, the little Transpontine information magpie has fluttered back through my window with a few more flyers in her beak. I’ve not bee...
Saturday, November 20, 2004

Cafe Crema Nights

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Lewisham is the only London borough without a cinema, but that's no excuse for not seeing some good films. DIY film collectives Explodin...
Thursday, November 18, 2004

Sniff out The Glue Rooms

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Wednesday 24th November is the last Wednesday of the month, which means it's time for the Glue Rooms monthly mixture of art, film and m...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

The Only Hopes

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A young New Cross-based band have entered the Xfm Rock School competition. The Only Hopes have recorded a version of The Pixies classic...
Monday, November 15, 2004

New Cross gigs

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On Friday (19th November) it's LOST CLUB time at the Montague Arms (Queens Road, New Cross) with a line up including: Kn0wn (Jimmi Handr...
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Sunday, November 14, 2004

We travel the spaceways

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A fantastic free event at the Festival Hall on the South Bank today where a couple of hundred young people from local schools took part ...
Saturday, November 13, 2004

Deptford babysnatchers?

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Anyone coming out of the Paradise Bar earlier this year would have been confronted by the huge sign opposite advertising Gilbert Deya Minsis...
Thursday, November 11, 2004

Strategies Against Marketecture

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DaDaDa: Strategies Against Marketecture is an interesting exhibition at Temporary Contemporary , an art space in the Old Seagar Distil...

Throbb Night 3

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It seems that there is a music club putting something interesting on at the Montague Arms on a Friday. Not surprising either, really, it...
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Hip Heaven

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Hip Heaven is a monthly jazz-poetry night which takes place on the last Thursday of the month at where ever the nightclub Bubblegum is hid...

Sumerian Stories

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5000 year old stories from Iraq, “newly translated from excavated clay tablets” will be told on Sunday 21st November, from 7.30pm, in that h...
Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Paradise Regained?

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I remember the Paradise Bar on the New Cross Road. Not as well as I should, the last time I was there I was sliding down the wall at an Angu...
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Monday, November 08, 2004

“I have mated with Brian Harvey”.

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Not me, you understand, but someone who felt sufficiently delighted by the act, or the thought of the act, to write it on a metal fence down...
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Saturday, November 06, 2004

New cross/new thing

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The Paradise Bar in New Cross gets name-checked in the November issue of Vogue magazine (UK edition). Sandwiched between adverts for Jaeger ...