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Giggs - Don’t Go There

mike cupcake — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:56:23 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuI2_pjDlM

New video from GIGGS, shot in Atlanta and Peckham.

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Sound of Rum live in Brixton (mp3)

mike cupcake — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:48:52 +0000

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

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Guerrilla Zoo’s Oro de Ojo - absurd night out this friday!

GuerrillaZoo — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:47:27 +0000

Guerrilla Zoo presents Oro de Ojo, our 1st party of 2010! We kick start the ’10s with a special canivale of mayhem!
Oro de Ojo is absurd, surreal, confusing & somewhat gloriously paniked party! Come immerse you in a world of psychedelic strangeness and mystical interventions.
Inspired by the work of cult film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Featuring surreal live performance, absurd art sessions, nonsensical live music and psychedelic/psychotic art installations.

Guerrilla Zoo presents Oro de Ojo
Friday 22nd January 2010
@ Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
8pm til LATE (more…)

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Pandemonium Circus returns to Peckham!

GuerrillaZoo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:57:39 +0000

Pandemonium circus returns with a high octane blend of crazed and depraved circus and musical antics, sonic sideshows, snake charming, suspensions, broken b movie bass, drunken and devilish preaching, cross dressing ragga core, gyrating gypsy swing, barber shop transformations, Ukrainian speed folk, human fishbowls, clown core and much much more…

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Hands Off Lewisham Primary Bridge School!

Rachael — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:56:11 +0000

I attended Lewisham Primary Bridge School as a wee nipper in the early 1980’s, and 2 decades later I have found out it is one of the latest schools to be occupied in protest due to closure and selling up to Leathersellers.

Parents and supporters have been occupying and protesting at the school since its closure in Easter. Lewisham Council plan to demolish this lovely old building which has been a thriving community school and build a new privatised school to the capacity of 800 pupils, 3 - 16 year olds.

English Heritage have awarded the building as grade 2 listed, creating a spanner in the works for Lewisham council and putting a hold on, but not yet ending the proposed plans.

The closure of the school has caused much upheaval to the routines and education of the pupils and parents. Pupils are having to get up an hour earlier in the morning in order to get transported by coach to and from the gates of the school to The Mornington Centre in New Cross! This “temporary” solution is costing Lewisham Council £900 a day.

An eviction notice was served to the occupation for Wednesday 24th June at 10.30am.

I went down on the day to show my support, make some T-Shirt banners, take some pictures and join the 50 or so local campaign supporters gathered outside the school in protest of the eviction.

A group of lively students from Goldsmiths College Anarchist Society joined parents on the roof of the school, where a camp has been set up and access to the roof has been sealed. There was strong police presence early on and a police helicopter flew over the site at one point, but the police moved on later in the morning and the atmosphere remained positive.

The bayliffs were due at 10.30 but arrived late and after some kind of negotiation it seems the eviction has been resisted!

If you are interested in finding out more and getting involved check out the Facebook Group: Hands Off Lewisham Primary Bridge SchoolPrimary Bridge School

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Reclaim The Beach - first party of 2009

the grapevine — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:49:18 +0000

**FREE PARTY** ** FREE PARTY** **FREE PARTY**

RECLAIM THE BEACH!! First Beach party of 09
Join us down at the Festival Pier, South Bank
SATURDAY MAY 16th // Tide out: 10pm-4am

Performing LIVE:
SPEAKERS CORNER QUARTET
http://www.myspace.com/SpeakersCornerQuartet
Speakers Corner Quartet - On Stage/Sand: 2am

SPEAKERS CORNER DJs & MCs
DJs play Original funk, cuban, brazilian, african and every other kind of breaks they can find aswell as a massive healthy dose of Roots Reggae, Mash Up, Bashment & Dancehall Vibrations to keep the party rocking til’ the tide comes in.. Spread the word and bring your peoples through.. Its the best party in town!

http://www.myspace.com/SpeakersCornerQuartet
http://www.myspace.com/EndOfTheWeakUK
http://www.myspace.com/SpeakersCorner
http://www.12Tone.co.uk
http://www.EODub.com

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Free Bowls sessions

mike cupcake — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:01:59 +0000

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Group / Grope

the grapevine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:41:49 +0000

GROUP/GROPE
Saturday 25 April 2009, 12pm - 8pm

A one-day event of exhibition and performance of final-year Goldsmiths MFA students (and bbq!!!)

http://www.area10.info

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Summer Adventures no.2 - Geocache Hunting & Wild Garlic Munching

mike cupcake — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:46:40 +0000

I was vaguely aware of the thousands of hidden packages placed worldwide by ernest Letterboxers or Geocachers, but until now had never set out to find one.

There’s a cache listed on Peckham Rye - the hunt was on. We downloaded the GPS location and using Cacheberry phone software had a compass & proximity locator to follow. This is obviously designed to make you feel like you’re in a film. It’s great.

A bit of muddy wandering and a search in a bush later and there it was, a plastic tub painted in camo colours. The contents weren’t particularly exciting but then that’s not the point; we wrote in the notebook and left some stickers + a nice Danish coin with a hole in the middle.

Zoe then fed me some wild garlic. You can eat the leaves raw, it surprised me how garlic-y a green leaf can taste. Good in salads apparently.

More geocaches on One Tree Hill, Telegraph Hill, in Burgess Park and just about everywhere else. Some have a puzzle to solve instead of GPS taking you straight there. Go find one and reward yourself with a pint!

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Psychological Art Circus

the grapevine — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:58:20 +0000

You are most cordially invited
to a final studio presentation
of our 2009/10 flagship work,
Human Document

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Saturday 18 April, 8pm
Area 10 Project Space
London SE15

Door 7:30pm, free

..
Psychological Art Circus
www.psychologicalartcircus.net

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Area 10 is the white warehouse behind the Library off Peckham High St (Google map: www.snipurl.com/g3447 )

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