Comments on: New Camberwell Road? Plus lots more!

By: Lane

Lane — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:04:37 +0000

re dante etc.
do you know that joke about what is the difference between camberwell and hell? (serious question — I am trying to remember it)
something about one takes an eternity to get there.…

If anyone knows it please post. I might need a reminder to come back tho, as it is my first time here…

By: Newroad

Newroad — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:53:56 +0000

RE: King George and Burgess:

http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=5471

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:47:10 +0000

"WE HAVE NO STAMPS FOR SALE. Buy your stamps here." Some people think the old Camberwell and Peckham have gone, but you can see these two signs one above the other at the Highshore Road Royal Mail delivery centre, just to the left of the counter. You would think that all they had to do was take down the "Buy your stamps here" official sign, then there would be no need to display the hand-drawn "WE HAVE NO STAMPS FOR SALE" just above it. "With us, it's personal TM" is their new slogan, specially crafted by committee for Adam Crozier's crisp new Royal Mail. Not "To us," one notices, but "with us", so the vestigial stroppiness of the nationalised industry has been retained. "Royal Mail? British Rail" could be their boast. "Your parcel is safe with us, don't worry about that, mate." Talking of the railway, the Japanese knotweed is bursting through the rubbish by the railway. It is full of reservatrol, which is also found in grapeskins and red wine, and is known to help prolong one's stay in this world.

By: secretlondon

secretlondon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:13:50 +0000

Cash converters the chain is still going, they are franchises anyway.

It seems to have turned into one of those strange churches, like the latin american shopping centre next door.

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:41:19 +0000

Ahhh! — Misty in Roots, there’s a group that bring back good memories…

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:56:56 +0000

Alabama 3 are on at the Carlsberg Academy 30th at the end of a week’s tour on the same bill as Misty in Roots, Tony Benn and Tom Robinson.

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:31:36 +0000

I’m pretty sure that mid 90’s brit-hop group STEREO MC’s lived on the Camberwell end of Coldharbour Lane too…

Maybe they still do

Alabama 3 even named their debut album “Exile on Coldharbour Lane” — perhaps displaying the fine Beckettian humour of your average Camberwelian resident

And of course House of Love — one of those groups who would have been huge with the right management and producer

Not that stopped them writing half a dozen absolute gems and another half dozen that were pretty good too…

By: Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:02:17 +0000

Yes Alan, it was me. The original idea came from a conversation with Frank Xerox who used to curate art shows at The Sun and Doves. I found Mark Gill in the Guardian one weekend and asked him to do the Coolharbour painting in fairground tradition. Dogstar, S&D and Bug Bar all opened within a fortnight of each other in December 1995. The others have long gone. Dogstar got a Brixton Challenge grant for starting up which was more money than I had to invest. I will try to find the Coolharbour Curry House. Canterbury's population is about 44,000. A little less than SE5's.

By: Alan Dale

Alan Dale — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:16:51 +0000

So it was you Mark who put the Cool in Coolharbour Lane.

From the Doves to the Dogstar– Coolharbour Lane.

Now there’s the Coolharbour Curry House. Flickr anyone?

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:54:04 +0000

Is there a picture of it you can blow up and retouch?

The dark blue, crashed C Class Mercedes has gone from the Grove, not before its rear end was splattered with caramel-custard-coloured bird droppings from the tree above. The C Class “Classic” had velour trim, an automatic gearbox and alloys at the front only, strange. The lollipop lady was told there was a collision, but the impact was so violent, I wonder if the car was stolen. It really looks like it tried to drive up the path.

I got from the Scope shop, “Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice”” for 99p down from 22 quid, published in Barcelona. I am trying to read in it prior to Will Self’s appearance on Fool’s Day at the Sun & Doves. I will advocate drinking and sleeping as aesthetic practices.