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Bonobo's new album 'Distance in Static' is due out at the end of this week.

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.

Skalah and Novelist at the Elephant Great new track from up and coming Skalah with grime veteran Novelist.

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

The partial solar eclipse was a joyous occasion.

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.

I loved Keith Ridgway's novel Dooneen, set in an alternative present version of Dublin where housing struggles are intensifying towards some kind of uprising.

As always lots going on in the SE London beer and coffee zone.

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.

Popped along yesterday to the 35th birthday party for 56a Infoshop, the boutique radical social centre/archive/bookshop at 56a Crampton Street SE17, just down from the Elephant and Castle.

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.

The occultist Peter J Carroll died recently, best known as one of the founders of the Chaos Magic current.

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 local venues, Deptford in Full Bloom brings together live music, folk sessions, DJs, zine fairs, art exhibitions, and p…

Students at Goldsmiths University of London have occupied the college library in New Cross in protest against another round of cuts threatening the jobs of hundreds of staff (academic and professional services) and leaving the future of some courses in do…

Ludicrous rant going round on line from a far right wannabe influencer who apparently commutes by train into New Cross from Kent and then gets the bus somewhere.

In 1985, the Pogues launched their great second album 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' with a party on HMS Belfast, the retired Royal Navy ship permanently moored between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.

The 2026 New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival starts on 24 April and promises '21 events across ten days, with venues ranging from pubs to parks and from boxing gyms to churches'.

Coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross next week (April 11th), the Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair 'Join us for a fair celebrating feminist, queer, disabled-led and local interdisciplinary publishing, returning for its third year.

A mesmerising audiovisual performance at Strange Parade in Nunhead last month (28 February 2026), with Inga Tillere's film piece accompanied by words from Johny Brown (of Band of Holy Joy) and musical accompaniment from Mark Beazley (bass) and Jono Podmore

I strongly recommend 'Commonplace: a South London Landscape History', a series of limited edition zines/pamphlets written by John Gray with photographs by Sam Walton.

Lots of great events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month I am doing two history related talks.

New Cross has quite a few fine trees - London Planes on the wider roads, cherry trees in residential streets and gardens full of all kinds of specimens.

People gathered opposite New Cross Gate station on Friday 6th February 2026 to commemorate the life of cyclist Irene Leardini and to campaign for safer roads in her memory.

Staff and students at Goldsmiths University of London are campaigning for the release of a Goldsmiths student who has been in prison for over a year for alleged Palestine solidarity action.

First day back at work yesterday after the Christmas break, and a nice moment of synchronicity.