Sunday, January 28, 2007

New Cross Fire

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It's that time of year to mark the anniversary of the New Cross Fire in 1981. As described in Deptford Fun City : "On Sunday 18th ...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Maudsley closure

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The campaign against the closure of the Maudsley emergency clinic in Camberwell is continuing despite health secretary Patricia Hewitt refus...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Venue Flyers

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We've mentioned the illustrious history of The Venue in New Cross before. Here's some documentary proof that the place really was a...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Shot by Both Sides

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SHOT BY BOTH SIDES - FRIDAY 19th JANUARY New Cross Inn , 323 New Cross Road, SE14 6AS 9pm-2am. £4 / £3 NUS & Cheaplist. Featuring: THE ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

New Cross Haight Ashbury??

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A breathless article in Time Out last week, Rocklands: New Cross Creatives , proclaims the wonders of 'the new New Cross underground, a ...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Nettleton Nexus Revisited

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Our recent post on Nettleton Road in New Cross and its musical productivity in the 1980s has set a few memories working. Alec Turner, forme...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Croydon Now

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Following my recent critique of Croydon , I thought it only fair to check out if there's anything interesting coming out of there now, a...
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Underground Cinema

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FLIXATION is a new underground cinema club, formed from ex-EXPLODING CINEMA and MY EYES! MY EYES! founders Duncan Reekie, Caroline Kennedy ...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Nettleton Road Nexus

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Nettleton Road in New Cross is a small street in South London that has had a disproportionate impact on leftfield music, particularly it see...
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Starbucks

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Transpontine has received this message about a planned picket of local Starbucks: As part of our ongoing solidarity campaign with sacked Sta...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Goodbye to the Hatcham?

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The Hatcham Liberal Club (also known as the Hatcham Social Club) in Queens Road is the latest New Cross music venue under threat, with '...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

One Grey Eye: Transpontine Drift

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" One Grey Eye: Transpontine Drift " (Transpontine being a word whose time has surely come) is a collection of ghostly, folklore-i...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

Back to the Plough

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Tomorrow (Monday 8th January) is Plough Monday, in ye olden days in England the day every went back to work in the fields after the 12 days ...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Above the pub

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I’ve been reading a couple of books recently which have led me to ponder the importance of that great institution – the room above the pub (...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Suburban Relapse

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Slightly Lost is the latest in a long line of people queuing up to slag off Croydon as 'a soulless, concrete homage to pure capitalism...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Test Dept

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Next up in the roll call of great South East London bands is Test Dept . To quote from Deptford Fun City : 'Test Department were formed ...

Band of Holy Joy on YouTube

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Following our recent post on the Band of Holy Joy , I came across this great video for their song 'Tactless' on YouTube, featuring t...
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Monday, January 01, 2007

South East London Synagogue

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This must be one of the great lost buildings of New Cross - the South East London Synagogue in New Cross Road, where the Jehovah's Witne...
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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Irish Dance Halls in London

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My friend Myk had a Christmas leftovers party last night where people brought along unwanted presents and put them into a lucky dip. As a re...
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Drive carefully

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It is traditional at this time of year to warn people to drive carefully. I would like to add that particular care should be taken if you ar...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Band of Holy Joy

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We have lots of writing about music here at Transpontine, but not enough actual music. To correct this we are now going to try and include l...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Greenwich Solstice

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I went along to a Winter Solstice celebration in Greenwich Park last week (22nd) arranged by the Tribe of Avalon . They very kindly asked me...
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Frost Fair

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I went to the Frost Fair at Bankside in the week before Christmas. Not quite up there with the historic fairs held on the frozen Thames , bu...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

James Brown

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So farewell James Brown... dead on Christmas Day, what an exit. I made a Christmas CD for friends this year and included his great 'Sant...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Back to 1995

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As a compulsive hoarder of flyers and other ephemera from many years of parties, gigs and rampages through the streets, it is gratifying to ...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

New X Inn Headjam

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Happening at New X Inn tomorrow. Details from Leadpipe
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Music Monday: Status Quo

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[post updated September 2021, following death of Status Quo bass player Alan Lancaster] Status Quo were one of the most successful British r...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Gone to the Dogs

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Went for a walk along the River Ravensbourne from Catford to Ladywell last month, came across the remains of Catford Dogs Stadium - the sign...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Punk in South London

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I wasn’t sure about reading ‘Punk Rock: an oral history’ by John Robb (Ebury Press, 2006). Sometimes your love for things can be ruined by t...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Solstice Satire

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Saturday 23rd December 3pm Bring a song, story or poem. Cozy up around a campfire or inside our yurt. Hot chai and mince pies on the go. Foo...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Monkees

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The Monkees' movie HEAD is being shown next Wednesday 13th December in New Cross. The film, plus delicious veggie food, costs a mere £4....
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Modern Antiquarian

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Getting increasingly addicted to The Modern Antiquarian , a fantastic compendium of stone circles and other ancient sites in UK and Ireland ...

Yule be sorry if you miss it

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South East London Folklore Society returns with Folk Yule: an evening of story telling, song, acoustic music, traditional and magical games...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I'm Your Fan

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Greenwich Picturehouse are showing Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man next week, a documentary about my favourite Jewish Buddhist Canadian si...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

Sympathy for the Devil

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Watched Sympathy for the Devil last night, Jean-Luc Godard’s film structured (very loosely) around The Rolling Stones recording their grea...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

Life is Cheap

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A horrific story on the front page of this week's South London Press (17.11.2006), which for some reason isn't on their website at p...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Strange vehicles of South London (1)

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This Russian T-34 tank has been situated at the corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk (just off New Kent Road) for a few years. From time to...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Vultures

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After the recent Nunhead Black Panther incident, we now have reports of vulture sightings in Richmond Park and Beddington sewage farm, near...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Ladywell Pool Saved

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Well done to Save Ladywell Pool campaign - Lewisham Council has now reversed its decision to demolish it to make way for a much-needed new ...

Your Arsenal

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Down by the River Thames at the site of Woolwich Arsenal today, many of the old buildings still standing from when it supplied guns and ammu...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Beerism

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Tales of a Nunhead micro-brewery , anyone?

Cyclism

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I've also been intrigued by Witcomb cycles, an ancient looking bike shop in an even more ancient looking building in Deptford. Now thank...
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Openlab

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In a Peckham art squat today it's the last day chance to take in Openlab 3 , featuring 'Installations, sonic interventions, video wo...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Lost Penguin Found in New Cross

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Strolling down the New Cross Road last Saturday afternoon I stumbled across a gig at Rubbish & Nasty by Lost Penguin . It was great, ami...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Dis-Orient X

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'Ten years after the book Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (zed books 1996) we've decided to have a ...

How does it feel? gig at the Windmill

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Our fave indie-pop night, How Does if Feel? are putting on a gig on Thursday November 9th at The Windmill, Blenheim Gardens, Brixton. The l...

Radical film night in New Cross

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Class Acts presents a double bill of cinematic delights plus yummy food. 'The Free Voice of Labor-the Jewish Anarchists' tells the s...

New River

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'The roving South London Radical History Groupies are going to walk along the south end of North London's New River and do a bit of ...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

Klaxons

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Good to see James Righton of 'new rave' instigators The Klaxons giving South East London its dues in the NME student guide (October...
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Friday, November 03, 2006

Beast of Nunhead

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'Interesting if true' report in the South London Press (20 October 2006) about a possible Alien Black Cat sighting in Nunhead: Pan...