Brockley SE4 - The LOCAL Directory

Goldsmiths strike continues

Sep

22

2026

Staff at Goldsmiths University of London remain on strike as the new academic year starts. The dispute is fundamentally about job cuts but escalated as management responded to lecturers boycotting part of their role by cutting their pay completely. This has now been going on for four months. There are pickets outside the main building on ...

waterintobeer 10th birthday/Acoustic Anarchy 100+

Sep

11

2026

The great Brockley beer shop/bar waterintobeer celebrated its tenth birthday last month with a series of events and some cans especially for the occasion. Earlier this year too Acoustic Anarchy celebrated its 100th event at waterintobeer, marking the event with a one off zine listing everyone who has played there (including me). As promoter Martin ...

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

Sep

7

2026

Bonobo's new album 'Distance in Static' is due out at the end of this week. Loving the track featuring Joy Crookes - 'Always on your side'. The video has lots of Peckham snapshots, including the 'Welcome to Peckham' sign at the Prince of Peckham pub and some Rye Lane shots (I think including Peckham Soul ...

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

Aug

22

2026

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 interest. While Art Garfunkel went off to college, Paul Simon came to the UK and honed his craft on the folk music scene, playing in folk clubs all over the country.One ...

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

Aug

22

2026

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 interest. While Art Garfunkel went off to college, Paul Simon came to the UK and honed his craft on the folk music scene, playing in folk clubs all over the country.One ...

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

Aug

17

2026

Skalah and Novelist at the ElephantGreat new track from up and coming Skalah with grime veteran Novelist. 'I'm from the town, I'm from the zone, I'm from the South of the Thames...I'm a navy boy in a navy world, I represent Brockley and Ladywell...I'm a navy boy in a navy fit, I represent Lewisham fam that's ...

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

Aug

17

2026

Skalah and Novelist at the ElephantGreat new track from up and coming Skalah with grime veteran Novelist. 'I'm from the town, I'm from the zone, I'm from the South of the Thames...I'm a navy boy in a navy world, I represent Brockley and Ladywell...I'm a navy boy in a navy fit, I represent Lewisham fam that's ...

Battle of Lewisham 1977 on Sister Midnight FM

Aug

16

2026

Last week (13 August) saw the anniversary of the 1977 'Battle of Lewisham' when local communities and anti-racists from all over the country mobilised to oppose a march by the far right National Front from New Cross to Lewisham, events covered in detail at this blog before.SE London community digital radio station Sister Midnight FM ...

Eclipse 2026 in Telegraph Hill Park

Aug

14

2026

The partial solar eclipse was a joyous occasion. Telegraph Hill Park (top park, pictured) in New Cross was packed with thousands of people, with sun (and moon) worshippers streaming towards it by foot and bike from all directions. It often gets crowded on New Year's Eve, and is generally busy on summer evenings, but I ...

Levellers squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts, 1986

Aug

9

2026

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 discount jeans chain Dickie Dirts. By 1984 it had closed and been squatted, which I believe it was intermittently for the next couple of years. On 9 August 1986 there was ...

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