Is anyone going to the Peckham Dolehouse Reunion on May 3rd? It's an all-nighter at Peckham Palais for £9 and has Back To The Planet and RDF headlining. This is the backstory from the Peckham wiki page....
"In the early 1990s Peckham was a centre of underground music,partly due to a large squat in a disused, 2 floor
DHSS building in Collyer Place near Peckham High Street. ...In 1989 the squatters adopted the name
Dole House Crew and along with another local group of squatters called the "Green Circus", held regular gigs/parties in the building. Upstairs was a large live gig room and downstairs was a
rave music DJ set up. There were also two bars, a
vegan cafe and a chill out lounge. During the week, any empty rooms were utilised for bands or artists. Some notable bands who regularly played gigs at the Dole House were:
The Levellers,
Citizen Fish, and
Radical Dance Faction. Up to 1,000 people could be squeezed into the squat and from February 1990 it was regularly filled to capacity. Those involved provided music at various free festivals in the 1990s and also assistance to the then budding
Deptford urban free festival (later the
Fordham Park urban free festival). They moved on to many other
South East London venues after the Peckham Dolehouse was evicted in late October 1990. A
squatted social centre called the
Spike Surplus Scheme ran from 1998 until being evicted by the council in 2009."