pecknam blog – adventures in SouthEast London

These fellas woke us up on Sunday with drums and firecrackers. Brilliant.

Now this is my kind of winters day; beautiful sunshine, a slight nip to the air, and my doppelganger dropping by to say hello :-)

I finally made it to Auto Italia on Queen’s Road last week for a “we’re about to be evicted” party. Rox blew us away with a amazing performance, Monsieur Hovis provided excellent spoken word, there was a forest of christmas trees in the entrance and a weird wooden-framed tent that just about fitted a band + a few audience. Also had to love the car shell with Mario Kart installed. A shame they’ve lost such a good space, I hope the new location on Old Kent Road works out well for them.

Tonight, Ashok are premiering their first music video at the Spike. I’m excited, it’s been far too long since I’ve seen them play.

Just spotted this in the Peckham Flickr group, makes me feel all old-fashioned and xmassy! Photo by Simon Leak

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.

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

This Friday evening, prepare your walkmen for the return of Mobile Clubbing!

• Location: Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
• Time: 19.01 precisely

ARRIVE AT TATE MODERN AT 18.45
WALK AROUND AND GET IN TO YOUR GROOVE
SMILE AT OTHER MOBILE CLUBBERS
NO DANCING BEFORE 19.01
AT THE INSTANT THE CLOCK STRIKES 19.01
DANCE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER DANCED BEFORE
AND DANCE FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN

A perfect opportunity to check out Doris Salcedo’s crack.

UPDATE: As expected, it was great fun, here’s a quick bit of video and some snaps:

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The mighty stickered saxaphone case of Mr. Hovis.

The first two days of Elefest went really well, the Groovy Movie cinema tent was open all weekend and featured:

• Trombone Poetry
• Don Letts reading from his new book, and a premiere of his latest film about the Stiff Little Fingers
• The S.O.C.P.A. Movie
• Bunty – live vocal looping performance
• The Turns – bouncy indie rock
• Tony Macaroni
• Hattie Hatstar
• Shorts by local artists and filmmakers
• … and loads more

My photos from the weekend are here

Wow, Only Fools and Horses banknotes!