pecknam blog - adventures in SouthEast London

New video from GIGGS, shot in Atlanta and Peckham.

Just got back from Sound of Rum’s gig at the Hootananny,  brilliant as always. Catch them on tour with Scroobius Pip!

Here’s a recording, courtesy of the HatMic system (v2):

Sound of Rum live 6th Feb 2010

Recently I’ve dusted off my minidisk recorder, which led to inventing the revolutionary HatMic system (patent pending). Here’s the spoils:

Ska night at the Victoria pub, Deptford, 7th March 2009:

• The Scaredy Cats live (16mb MP3)
• Los Albertos live (32mb MP3)

So the sound quality is a little ropey, but note that for Los Albertos I was in the middle of a 30 person-strong ska mosh pit! Think of it like this: each audio drop-out = another bruise to my body :-)

Thanks to everyone at the Victoria, definitely one of the best squatted venues I’ve been to. Really sad to hear this was one of your last gigs before eviction.

Next step: stick some foam round the mic to lessen distortion.

If you like jumping around to live ska, funk and dub you HAVE to make it to Deptford tomorrow night to catch The Scaredy Cats, Los Albertos and HeadJam! I don’t know JTS or Comply Or Die but sure they’re worth seeing too.

Friday 6th March
The Victoria pub, Grove Street, Deptford
Cheap bar + DJs til late

Here’s a track from The Scaredy Cats’ EP, “Claws in the Contract”:

Sleeping with the Enemy

Slow Slow music video taken from the debut album ‘Balance’ by Sound of Rum with Excentral Tempest available to download at http://www.soundofrum.com Video directed by Dean Puckett http://www.deaddeanfilms.com Camera by Leo Leigh/Dean Puckett Assistant Producers: Andy Baker and Lee MacMullen

Sound Of Rum on myspace - http://www.myspace.com/soundofrumband

And in case you missed it, the MP3 was posted here back in November

Wishing everyone out there happy times over xmas,  but if you can’t help getting chased by the cops here’s the ideal soundtrack:

The Taking of Peckham 1-2-3 by Celebrity Murder Party

Posted originally at GYBO - the source for all your mashup needs.

See you on the other side of a pile of mince pies!

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!!!

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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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Dug out some live recordings from the mists of, well, about 3 years back. Anyone remember our Signs of Life… events? They were pretty good, even if I do say so meself. Here’s three exclusive sets from Infinite Livez, DJ Wrongspeed and Liberation Jumpsuit all live at the Brixton Jamm in December 2005.

Infinite Livez feat. DJ Cutouts - live set - december 2005

DJ Wrongspeed - 66min mix - december 2005

Liberation Jumpsuit - live set - december 2005

Photos from the night and the (rather unkept now) Signs of Life… website.

Comment if you like, hate, or got some tunes to post here!

Liberation Jumpsuit

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…