FREE music and arts events this weekend

Fri 2 May 7.15pm O Brother, Where Art Thou? Old Police Station • 8pm Winged Migration Sanford Housing Co-op • 8pm The Naked City Gallop • Sat 3 May 10am Optical Adjustments St Nicholas Church • 1pm Ritual & Play Old Tidemill School • 8pm Frank Zappa's Baby Snakes Vinyl • 7.30pm Stray Dog Gallop • 8pm Grease Telegraph Hill Park • Sun 4 May 1pm Ping Pong Old Tidemill School • 8pm Owl & the Pussycat Montague Arms
freefilmfestivals.org/whats-on/new-cross.html

Friday 2nd May – Monday 5th May
Arthub presents 
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! 
Bank Holiday Charity Postcard Show, Silent Auction & Grand Raffle. Grand Opening Friday 2 May, 6-9pm
Silent auction continues Sat/Sun 12-5pm, Minimum bids of £20. Monday 5 May: one day sale 12-5pm, all available postcards £25. In aid of The Deborah Ubee Trust & The Ahoy Centre. Arthub Gallery, 5-9 Creekside SE8 arthubgallery.com

Saturday 3rd May, 1pm
'UTTER!' 
Misguided Tour of Deptford & New Cross with Richard Tyrone Jones
Award-winning poet and local resident Richard Tyrone Jones will mis-guide you through Deptford "in a fascinating FREE tour with some very quirky features. Myth or reality? Amazing tale or barefaced lie? Join him for a tour that will reveal Deptford in a totally new light..."
Meet at Sanford Housing Co-op, Cold Blow Lane, 1pm. Ends 3pm at the Albany, where Richard is taking part in the Crosswires Festival (see below). NB: Doesn't look like there's much Deptford in this piss-take walk?

Saturday 3rd May, all day
CROSSWIRES FESTIVAL
www.crosswires.org.uk/ 
A day of mostly FREE music at three Deptford & New Cross venues
12pm–3pm Deptford Lounge (FREE)
3pm–10pm The Albany (FREE all day)
3pm–3am Amersham Arms (FREE before 8.30pm)
An eclectic mix of the best in new and traditional music "in the tradition of the late John Peel's radio shows". Check out the great line ups at each venue on the Crosswires Festival website.

Saturday 3rd May, 9pm
KIMBER'S MEN
It's May Bank Holiday – traditionally time for South East Londoners to head to Rochester for the Sweeps Festival or Hastings Jack in the Green for a bit of paganism, folk music and morris dancing – and to celebrate the pride of the common working man. But the trains are all f**ked, so get a taste of these festivals on home turf with the best sea shanty crew in the UK.
Birds Nest pub

Monday 5th May, 12-5pm
GREENWICH FAIR
Locally organised bank holiday fair with a strong whiff of political activism from our posh friends across the Creek...
Greenwich Green ('by the Greenwich Tree of Life mural') aka Bardsley Green, 262-288 Creek Road SE10 9SW
keepthegreen.org.uk






NEXT WEEK...

Saturday 10th May, 10am-10pm
LEWISHAM ARTHOUSE OPEN STUDIOS
Over 30 artists studios (close at 8pm) • in the gallery: Painting, Smoking, Eating (group show) • café by GCDA • Cardboard Jungle workshop for kids • bar, drinks & DJ in the evening.
lewishamarthouse.org.uk 

Saturday 10th May, 7.30pm
EUROVISION PARTY
Hosted by drag queen Mrs Jonjo
Cry with laughter on the greatest night in European music (not!)
Tickets £5 (includes a drink) 18+ only, last entry 9pm
The Albany, Douglas Way SE8 4AG
www.thealbany.org.uk/event_detail/1203/Music/Eurovision-Party

Happy Mondays at the Amersham

After a brief absence, Happy Mondays is back at the Amersham Arms with their usual mix of well-known comedians trying out new material, regular radio contributors who you've never seen in person, and up-and-coming jesters just starting out.

More often than not the bill has a range of performers that trumps the predominantly white male comedy status quo, and is hosted by the lovely Holly Walsh (lovely as long as she doesn't pick on you in the audience!).

Monday 25th March, 8pm
SHAPPI KHORSANDI
Dane Baptiste, Luisa Omielan, Chris Neill
MC Holly Walsh (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats)
(Line up subject to change)*

Tickets are only £5 (including a booking fee) when you book online (more expensive on the door). Coming up: Phil Nichol on 8th April, Josh Widdicombe on 22nd April.

See the Happy Mondays page on Facebook. The Amersham Arms is at 388 New Cross Road, SE14 (opposite New Cross station).

And here's Crossfields resident Alistair Green performing far too close to home at Happy Mondays on 25th February...(sorry Al!)...

* Rob Beckett (8 Out of 10 Cats) was spotted at Little Nan's yesterday evening...

Happy Mondays at the Amersham Arms

Jon wrote to tell us about the comedy club he runs with comedienne Holly Walsh at the Amersham Arms in New Cross. Here's the line-up for the last two nights of this year...One of the evenings features a Crossfields resident (but you'll have to go along to find out who)!

Monday November 28th, 7.30pm

ISY SUTTIE (Dobby from 'Peep Show') and HOLLY WALSH (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats), plus DOC BROWN and LLOYD LANGFORD
buy tickets (£5)

Monday December 12th, 7.30pm
JOSIE LONG (Never Mind the Buzzcocks) and HOLLY WALSH (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats), plus JOE WILKINSON, AL STICK and ANGELA BARNES
buy tickets (£5)

www.popcorncomedy.com
www.happymondayscomedy.co.uk
www.roughcutpresents.com