pecknam blog - adventures in SouthEast London

{friday, 7th dec} - needleandthreads big-ass chrimbo shindiggery..

8pm till 4am, £6/£5 NUS, or £4 before 9pm!

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Thanks for your lovely comments on the Fall Into Place exhibition. Video is still awaiting an edit, just trying to find the time! Any editors looking for a project don’t feel shy offering help :-)

We are grateful to the Beautiful Things For Unpretentious People blog for writing a lovely feature on the event:

…I walked up the stated street slightly worried that it was all some kind of hoax and that a bunch of trendy mulleted East London types would jump on me and beat me to death for even thinking myself cool enought to attend their party. But no. Some fairy lights marked the entrance and indeed, there was the ground floor window…

Read the full piece here.

I’m happy to notice SHORTY on the giglists again, they’re playing the Brixton Jamm on Saturday 24th November.

Feed Me Music joins us for the first time on a new bi monthly outing for the locals. Headlining are London ledgends Shorty, a seven piece hip hop band with a sound that bounces from funk to rock in a show stopping style. Winners of the Diesel-U-Music Hip Hop Award 2002. 2nd on the bill: Circle3: Circle 3 provide the audience with their professional high standards…quality. If any record companies read this “you are missing out”!!! - Coventry Festival, Kerrang FM “. Last Up YumYum, who are a melting sexy acoustic twosome with the odd threesome playing Acoustic rock, blues and alternative
Live Acts & DJs: SHORTY, CIRCLE 3, YUM YUM
Price: £8, Hours: 7.30 – 1.30am

I can’t make it as I’m entertaining in Brighton so I need a volunteer to film/record/review - anyone?

The Gluerooms “Our Pheromones are all Loose”
28th November 2007
Amersham Arms, 388, New Cross Rd, London, SE14 6TY

Performing live:
DJ TENDRAW & THE GYPSIES DOG
CYCLAMEN
NEW LOW
OSCILLATORIAL BINNAGE
PATTERN
SCULPTURE
RICHARD THOMAS
Entry £3
www.gluerooms.com

on monday 03 Dec; SECOND SENSE, {local rock band - check em on mindspazz.con/secondsensemusic} are this weeks live guests.. with dj’s HOVIS {wierd funk, gyphop, and eclectica}, DARK {reggae, roots, and culture}, and RINSE {jungle, oldschool hardcore} free entry, £2.50 drinks..

jamm bar 261 brixton road

on monday 19 Nov; BONSAI BIG BAND, {name says it all.. or does it?} are this weeks live guests.. with dj’s HOVIS {wierd funk, gyphop, and eclectica}, DARK {reggae, roots, and culture}, and RINSE {jungle, oldschool hardcore} free entry, £2.50 drinks.. jamm bar, 261 brixton road..

on monday 26 Nov; BUNTY, {live looping, vocal beats and pieces; check her on mindspazz.con/buntylooping} celebrates her new album release!.. with dj’s HOVIS {funk, gyphop, and other stuff}, KING SOLOMON {swing, jazz, and world breaks}, and SUNMONKEY {hiphop, reggae, and different styles}.. free entry, £2.50 drinks..

Creative Routes writes

The closure of the Emergency Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital will go ahead, so proclaimed Patricia Hewitt.

This will mean that people in mental health crisis “out of office hours” will have no where to go apart from overcrowded and inadequately resourced local A & E departments.

They are holding a 24 hour demonstration/vigil and urging people to “Bring a torch to search through the rubble of the NHS”.

Sun. 18th Nov - overnight vigil - 8pm-9am
Mon. 19th Nov 9am-2pm
1 Lower Marsh, London SE1
www.proudtobemad.co.uk

The South London Press have an online petition you can sign.

Creative Routes writes

The closure of the Emergency Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital will go ahead, so proclaimed Patricia Hewitt.

This will mean that people in mental health crisis “out of office hours” will have no where to go apart from overcrowded and inadequately resourced local A & E departments.

They are holding a 24 hour demonstration/vigil and urging people to “Bring a torch to search through the rubble of the NHS”.

Sun. 18th Nov - overnight vigil - 8pm-9am
Mon. 19th Nov 9am-2pm
1 Lower Marsh, London SE1
www.proudtobemad.co.uk

The South London Press have an online petition you can sign.

Photo by Kamil Janowski

We had a lot of fun over the weekend running the Fall Into Place exhibition at my old house. A huge thanks to all the artists, muscians, fairy-light providers and beer drinkers. Writeup, photos and video footage coming as soon as we’ve caught up on some sleep!

Update: photo gallery by myself and Alice here