Neil will be launching his new pamphlet Deptford Fun City: a ramble through the history and music of New Cross & Deptford on Thursday May 27th 2004, 8 pm at South London Radical History Group, Use Your Loaf, 227 Deptford High Street, SE8 (admission free).

He will be reading some extracts and also playing some music mentioned in the text. Afterwards there will be time for a drink (with cheap quality beer) and chat. Expect to hear a bit of Band of Holy Joy, Carter USM, Alternative TV, This Heat, Throbbing Gristle (well they did record a live album in New Cross), Jah Shaka, Test Department and some of the new wave of local bands such as Art Brut and The Violets – New Cross is the New Seattle, dontcha know…

The pamphlet is available for £2.50 (68 pages) from Morps Records, in the basement of Moonbow Jakes Cafe, New Cross Gate, or by post from Past Tense Publications, 56a Info Shop, 56a Crampton Street, London SE17 3AE (cheques payable to N.Gordon-Orr).

Deptford Fun City includes a cast of punks, pagans, revolting peasants, gut girls, slaves and slavers, sound systems, suffragettes, speedway riders, sailors, dock strikers, deserters, metal bashers, may queens, pearly kings, ghosts, vampires, Chartists, bread rioters and anarchist bombers.