pecknam blog - adventures in SouthEast London

History, beginnings and current happenings at The Spike, Peckham.

Sunday 23rd November sees the Spike hosting the second Peoples Republic of Southwark mini eco fair including:

- a bring & take event: if you have any small, easy to carry household items (clothes, toys, books, dvds, similar) that you do not need any more, bring them along and give them to someone else, or pick up anything you might need. Please do not bring any electrical or bulky items.
- Hear about and taste the invisible food (wild food project)
- Learn first hand how a sustainable community can operate in an inner city area
- Prepare your allotments, gardens or pots for spring with the seed swap: if you have any surplus seeds bring them along and exchange them for different ones
- Take part in an art project
- Listen to some live music

Or simply come along and have a look at what we’re doing.

For more information check:
http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.co.uk

KAYAKA*japanese noise guitar and destroyed drumming music*http://www.myspace.com/kayakathethird

RYAN JORDAN*diy electronics, body sensor strobe light noise* http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj

JOHN BOWERS*pd, diy electronics, strobe|colour|hypnosis* http://onoma.co.uk/

CHEAPMACHINES*micro-tonal noise scape* http://www.cmx.org.uk/

THE SCIE PROTOCOL*interactive video score & digital noise orchestration*http://www.a10lab.info/scieprotocol

AMPERSAND*improv & industrial ambiance* http://www.ampersand.tv/

EATEN BY CHILDREN*Feedback, Indus experimental* http://www.myspace.com/eatenbychildren

& other welcome and unwelcome guests. £5 Presented by Area10 Project Space Peckham A10lab, Fibrr Records, Noise=noise, Apo33. http://www.a10lab.info/beyondsignalhttp://www.area10.info

Find Area 10 on Face Book: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7067091229

Sometimes it’s good to be reminded that for South London to exist, there must be something North of it. This video has been edited together from over 3,000 photographs and makes me want to ride a nitro-powered doubledecker bus around all night long.

In what seems like a matter of weeks, Sound of Rum formed and have released an album! The lineup is Kate Excentral Tempest on vocals,  Ferry Lawrenson on drums & Archie Marsh on guitars. Here’s a track from their album, which is available to buy online.

Sound of Rum - Slow Slow

Catch them this Wednesday 12th at Madam Jo-Jo’s,  or for FREE on Monday 17th at the New Cross Inn.

Who doesn’t like rum eh?

For our 11th ‘happening’ we’re taking it to the streets of Brixton for one night of hip hop and dubstep inspired madness!

This event is a little bit of a fundraiser for a very special event to be held early next year…so please come down and show your support!!!

JOIN OUR GROUP >
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6655450769

HIP HOP / DUBSTEP / BREAKS / ELECTRO

Featuring highly skilled rap stars from west coast USA Vs UK underground hip hop acts, mcs and turntablists - watch as they spit, scratch and battle it out to the death!!

Joined by break dancing crews, live graffiti artists, scratch djs, beatboxers and more!

Live dubstep / breaks acts & DJs join us - featuring some of the finest, grimiest & greatest underground masters of ear drum popping bass beats and breaks

Plus exclusive performance art in the form of ever dangerous body angle grinding, freestyle tribal belly dancing, body painting and other little surprises ;o)

download: The IRS - Free Dem

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I’ve been hearing much goodness about this night at the Montague Arms, it’s run by (or at least associated with?) Acoustic Ladyland.

http://www.myspace.com/coronarycrumpage

It’s that time of year again, come one, come ghoul, shake your bones and rattle a pumpkin. Here’s a tune to get you in the mood for Halloween:

Mr Fab and His Bag O’ Heads - Skeleton Crew On The Graveyard Shift

Plenty happening,  first up tomorrow World Zombie Day hits the streets of central London.

All Hallow’s Eve falls on a Friday in perfect party fashion. We can recommend Urban75’s Offline Party in Brixton for FREE. Elsewhere I’m DJing at a huge party alongside many other vinyl junkies and live acts, but have been politely asked not to reveal the location. However anyone who’s anyone in Pecknam will know where I’m talking about :-)

True zombies will see it through til Saturday and join us on the Crawl of the Dead V up in town.

Brainnnnsssss…

Critical Mass is a monthly gathering on 2/3/4/more wheels that happens all over the world. There’s a new meet for SE London - fix those punctures and hit the road.First Friday of every month meet 6.30pm outside Peckham Library

Grab a PDF flyer for the ride here