Brockley Archives - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but earlier this year they moved to Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Music Monday: Novelist Guy

Apr

2018

Brockley grime artist Novelist has an LP - Novelist Guy, released on his own MMMYEH Records label - and its great as expected. There's catchy anthems galore, politics (Stop Killing the Mandem), positivity and of course some blue borough love from the man who gave us Lewisham McDeez as part of The Square. 'Better Way' features the lines - ...

Music Monday: Oh Wonder, made in Brockley

Nov

2017

Electro/alt pop duo Oh Wonder played a sold out gig at Brixton Academy this month, part of a massive international tour to mark the launch of their second album Ultralife. Their track Without You has had 44 million views on YouTube. Not bad at all for an outfit who started out putting songs up on ...

Halloween: the pumpkins after the night before

Nov

2017

Maybe not quite so spooky in daylight, but the surviving pumpkins on the morning after Halloween have their own horrors...Malpas Rd SE4Drakefell Rd SE4Drakefell Road SE4Asylum Road SE15

Music Monday: Mirage – 1980s Brockley Brit Funk

Jun

2017

There was food, music, books and sunshine to be had in Crofton Park earlier this month (3rd June 2017) with stalls along the main road as part of Croftest in the Brockley Max festival. Some fine soul and house music was being played by the sound system outside First Glance hair, with the DJ announcing that one ...

Hilly Fields Festival

Jun

2017

Hello Londoners, A DIY self-catering SUMMER OF LOVE 50th A FREE family and friends’ festival on Saturday 22nd July 12noon – 6pm Join us as we picnic together on Hilly Fields Park in Brockley, SE4. Unite and share music, performance, magic, poetry and storytelling in celebration of the Summer of Love fifty years after the ...

United Kingdom: David Oyelowo & Rosamund Pike in the Rivoli

Nov

2016

'United Kingdom' is a new movie starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, based on the true-life interracial romance between Seretse Khama (first president of Botswana) and his wife Ruth Williams. The couple first met in London in the 1940s, and the film seems to have used the Rivoli Ballroom as a location for some of ...

The Man Behind the Door – A Brockley Ghost Story

Oct

2016

For Halloween, here's a ghost story written by Elliot O'Donnell for the London 'Weekly Dispatch' and then reprinted in the Australian 'Express and Telegraph', 6 August 1910.The location of the events is given as '200Y Brockley Road, SW', said to be haunted by 'the phantasm of a tall man in a frock coat and top ...

We live in Brockley baby – Roy Ayers comes to SE4

Oct

2016

The latest mural in the Brockley area went up last week. Staring out from the side of Sids Plumbing and Heating Supplies (corner of Brockley Road and St Margaret's Road) is a portrait of US jazz/funk legend Roy Ayers, surrounded by lyrics from probably his best known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine. It was pained ...

Free Nazanin Ratcliffe

Aug

2016

Former Brockley resident Nazanin Ratcliffe has now been in jail in Iran for four months, having been detained while attempting to fly back from a family holiday there. Her two year old child who was with her at the time is now with relatives in Iran while her British husband is in London campaigning for her ...

Brockley Launderette Closing in Endwell Road

Aug

2016

The Launderette in Endwell Road, Brockley, SE4 is to close. A sign in its window gives a closing date as Sunday 18th September. I don't know why, businesses close and indeed open all the time for all kinds of reason, but as Dave Hill highlighted earlier this year launderettes in London are vanishing fast.Of course ...