The line-up of readers for the next Brixton BookJam has been announced. Once again, it’s a cracking list, including Adam Mars-Jones, Courttia Newland and BookJam organiser, Zelda Rhiando. The event will [...]
By Kitty Knowles Tonight, the Effra Social, Effra Road will invite locals within its walls for the first time in over 100 years as it becomes a ...
By Liz Marvin Ah, January. A month of collective trying and failing. Is it a British thing, New Year’s resolutions, do you think? I bet the French d ...
The owners of the Dogstar pub, Antic London, are preparing to open two new venues in Brixton early this year. The bar group announced today that it ho ...
Wednesday December 12 Take One: MAIA @ Hootananny Huddersfield band MAIA describe themselves as ‘sci-fi-folk’. That means a lot of instruments – cajon djembe, guitar, ukelele, banjo among others. And [...]
By Liz Marvin It’s the third Saturday of the month and that means that at the Station Road Market it’s the turn of vintage and retro, or, as my housemate [...]
Wednesday November 14 Take One: Say No to Austerity @ Town Hall For the first time today, European countries and unions will strike together against austerity. Lambeth’s trade unionists and activists [...]
By Luke Massey There are times when you’re reviewing music that it can be something of a chore. There are two main reasons for this. The first is that [...]
This afternoon the Brixton Blog received an email from one of the owners of Hootananny pub, Sophia Yates, who fears a new restriction on their license could mean the end [...]
The owners of an award-winning Brixton venue fear the pub will close unless Lambeth council lifts licensing restrictions placed on it. Police wrote to Hootananny, in Effra Road, last week, [...]
