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March 17th, 2012, the launch night of Shenanigans at Release, New Cross. A new alternative club night, featuring, among others, DJ Hitman (from Renegade Nation), Psyche (from Wrecked and the Betty Ford Clinic), HamstOr (from Inquisition and Divide By Zero) and DJ Soundwave (from Synergy). Oh, and me, from, erm, various places.
Doors are 10pm to 1am, the club runs until 3am, it's only £4 to get in (or £3 if you're NUS or NHS).
To quote those them there promoters ... "Transport connections are all over the area. Easiest route for you 'northerners' is out from London Bridge to New Cross/New Cross Gate (7 minute journey) or straight down the Overground. A night bus (N21) runs regularly back into The City from outside the venue."

Shenanigans: At Least It's Not Morden

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Photos from the joint Vagabonds/Reptile New Years Eve Event at Minories ...

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Photos from the penultimate night of Vagabonds, and the last at The Shooting Star on Middlesex Street.

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Last weekend I popped down to Scream Lounge in South Croydon for their "Hallowe'en Spooktacular", featuring six bands across the two performance spaces, DJs in the bar and occasional fancy dress. Unfortunately, I was unavoidably delayed, and only arrived a couple of songs before the end of the Devil Cocks' set, although in time to catch them covering the Rezillos classic Somebody's Going To Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight. They were followed by Tilt at Windmills (dressed as a number of Batman's adversaries) playing classic-style heavy rock, and then by The Lost Audio's funk-rock.

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Devil Cocks

Tilt at Windmills

The Lost Audio

Last Wednesday cookwitch and I went to Albert's Table in South Croydon, once described by Jay Rayner as being the only reason to go to Croydon. While I might be offended by that, he definitely has a point. I originally discovered the restaurant by accident while looking for a restaurant with valkyriekaren, and after that visit, decided I definitely had to return! While I'm not really a foodblogger, I felt that this one should probably be written up ...

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There may be a more culinary review, with photos of both meals, going up on cookwitch.blogspot.com, at some point.

Covering the "industrial" guest DJ slot at Vagabonds this weekend, and I played the following ...

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About a month ago we attended one of the weekends at The Greatest Steampunk Exhibition, taking place in the authentically steam age environs of Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Among the working steam engines were display cases of steampunk creations, while later in the afternoon there was a demonstration of Tea Duelling, followed by an impromptu 'fashion show' with attendees modelling their garb.

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Steampunk creations

Steampunk 'Fashion Show'

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

After some last-minute shuffling of the DJs, I ended up playing the following ...

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Some photos from Vagabonds at the end of last month.

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In the middle of last month, The Men played a gig at the Boston Arms Music Room - this time, with a couple of punk-based bands (rather than the neo-burlesque or goth-based bands that tend to be on a steampunk bill). Bin Raiders were an enthusiastic bouncy band, while Dread Messiah had guitars by way of Slayer and vocals by way of Killing Joke. TMTWNBBFN, meanwhile, put on a fine set, including some new songs.

Lighting was the usual infernal glow at the Boston Arms Music Room ...

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Bin Raiders

Dread Messiah

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing