I thought A-ha recorded their early material at the Sydenham end of Dartmouth Road/Kirkdale?
They did, but we took a liberty and moved the border. And we nearly got away with it…
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Some interesting stuff about A-ha’s time in Kirkdale/Dartmouth Road. They lived above what is now the pizza delivery place on Dartmouth Road.
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There are lots of interesting articles on this blogsite, which was used as the (credited) source for a fair bit of our local music research. More broadly it covers visual arts, literature, social history and current affairs around this part of SE London (Lewisham - New Cross - Deptford)
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Though he wasn’t actually living there when he wrote it AIUI
That’s right. Jim Connell was living in New Cross when he wrote the Red Flag and moved to Stondon Park (marked by a plaque) for his final years. This article has all the detail - including how he was interviewed as a possible suspect in the Ripper murders Transpontine: Music Monday: The Red Flag
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Hi all, I thought I should mention, because I can’t see reference to it, the small blue plaque in the corner of Lordship Lane and Overhill road dedicated to AC/DC singer, Bon Scott (the favoured front man of many an AC/DC fan although I am not particularly one myself). He tragically died aged 33 from alcohol poisoning having fallen asleep on a bitterly cold February night in a friend’s car parked on Overhill Road.
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Thank you for clarifying why the blue plaque is on that corner..I always wondered if he lived in that house or somthing.
Thats a sad end.
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I was talking to someone about this just last week. It’s certainly not where you’d expect such a rock legend to end up.
Anyway, this prompted me to look into the story a bit more. The Overhill Road flat belonged to Alastair Kinnear, Scott’s drinking buddy on that last night. Kinnear was the original guitarist in England’s Glory, Peter Perrett’s band before The Only Ones.
Perrett’s infamous connections with SE23 are already well documented.
The fatal drinking session took place at The Music Machine in Camden (now Koko), where Perrett’s long term partner Zena Kakoulli got the pair on the guestlist.
And Zena’s brother Harri Kakoulli was the bassist in England’s Glory, but is better known as the bassist of Squeeze, playing on their self titled debut and the Cool For Cats LPs, before leaving them in 1979.
Phew!
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Conductor and music educator Bernard Keeffe (on the telly a lot in the 60s and 70s) lived in Honor Oak Road. His daughter went to Fairlawn when I was there.
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Wow, this is incredible. We can be so grateful for this, this man has such an interesting biography it adds so much to our local history, I can barely believe what I am reading and just from one page.
I seem to remember that Manfred Mann lived on Sunderland Road for a while back in the 60’s and one of the other band members (? Paul Jones) lived on Devonshire.
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Some excellent local knowledge being shared in this thread. With the next Music & Arts Walk just a few weeks away, I can see there’ll be quite a bit of new material to add. Please keep the suggestions coming…
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Ooh I’ve just done a search and can’t find anything about a music and arts walk in terms of when and where. Is that still being worked out?
It will be announced soon, but keep Sunday June 14th free 
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Great - thanks; any indication of morning or afternoon? I only ask as I’ll have been working the night before.
The Music walk is usually in the afternoon (as participants often end up having such a good time, they head to the pub together )
There will be other walks in the morning, and it sounds like you’ll miss the Pub History Walk the night before, sadly
Yes indeed I won’t be available for the pub walk - that’s a shame; it sounds like it would be fun!
Thanks for this playlist, which was my run accompaniment this morning. As per @michael’s endorsement, I particularly liked Forest Hill by the Keston Cobblers Club. Are they particularly noteworthy? I’d not heard of them before.
It’s a nice song but i can’t make out half of the words.
Forest Hill was just too ______ ?