pecknam blog - adventures in SouthEast London

New video from GIGGS, shot in Atlanta and Peckham.

Spike Surplus is a community centre who has helped many artists,
musicians and free thinkers to attain their goals. Now after ten years providing beneficial services to the community, Southwark Council are evicting the Scheme and selling of the land. This is a massive injustice! Please help the Spike
Contact http://www.spikesurplus.org

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

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

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.

Just wondering, how many of you lovely readers know that these are for sale in Docklands every two years?

Defence Systems and Equipment International
“The world’s largest fully integrated defence and security exhibition, bringing together senior international trade and military experts from across the entire supply chain in an optimal business environment.”

In other words, a tradeshow for machines that kill, maim and torture. This is their promotional video from the last one in 2007.

And here’s Mark Thomas speaking at the protest there:

The next one is September 2009, although you won’t read about it in the papers. http://www.dsei.co.uk/

This caught my eye as I discovered the band Full Fat last week and they’re, well, fat! It’s a fundraiser for Refugee Action Kingston, so bit strange to be happening SE rather than SW but hey, come on down!

The whole Seen EP is worth checking out.

Yarrrrr! Saturrrday last there be 100 scurvy Space Hijacker dogs trap’d 20,000 leagues under the Thames with a samba band and plenty o’ rum. Spy the bewitched portrait below, m’hearties!

Summer mashup silliness,  and it’s allowed ‘cus it’s my birthday!

Want a strange night out? This is for you.

Big Baba’s Dada Yaga Hut
July 30th 7.30 - 12
£6 advance or free before 9

July 30th sees one of the best live shows in town make its way to Corsica Studios. Part MC, part living art project, Infinite Livez has been causing waves of hilarity, revulsion and exhilaration since he debuted on Big Dada with “Pononee Girl”.

In Swiss electronics/improv duo Stade (plus the incredible vocal stylings of Joy Frempong) he has found his ideal live collaborators. Their two albums only hint at the madness that develops at their live shows, as they build whole new tracks from triggered samples, voices and effects. It’s a little like watching Kool Keith jamming with 70s-era Miles Davis, only wilder. And, for one night only, Inf and Stade will be joined onstage by a Very Special Guest - a regular at all their shows who has finally been persuaded to grab a microphone alongisde them for a one-off, truly unmissable collaboration.

If you’re not excited yet, you should be for it is the one and only Roots Manuva himself!!! . Support on the night will be provided by new Big Dada signing Speech Debelle. The first female MC to get a deal with the veteran label, Speech uses a troubled background as a springboard for fragile, achingly honest rap-narratives of self-loathing, fear and hope. Only too happy to rock the mic, tonight she will present an acoustic set and showcase tracks from her forthcoming album. Throw in DJ business from the one and only Jamie Big Dada and you have a sparkling Big Dada night to remember….