BIG TAKEOVER

OKAY! We will be occupying the Ratstar (298 Camberwell Road, SOUTH London) earlier than usual, and preceding the usual punk gig with a brand new endeavour focussing on all things VID-E-OH, aka BigTAPEover.
Check it:

AND THEN …

PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW IS NOW AT RATSTAR (the same place Punch played) 298 Camberwell Road, London, SE5 0DL.

Bus riders, there is a website called TFL journey planner that can help you out a load!

From Victoria, get the 436 and get off at camberwell green
From anywhere else get to Elephant and Castle and get the 40 or the 35 bus down walworth road
From Shoreditch the 35 will also serve you nicely
From south london, you should know where camberwell is.

Here is the google maps link - here is the social centre’s website
This is what the venue looks like from the outside:

And from the inside, while we’re in it (thanks Pawel for the Photo:

WOO! Get down early.

195 Mare street is perhaps the biggest autonomous social space in London, a huge former Working Men’s club and ex-refuge for ex-women prisoners, it was built in 1699. The preservation of the social history of these places is left to those with the balls to occupy and protect them, because the government (Who? Oh, does my society look big in this?) and the banks (One of which has just bought the place) aren’t gonna do it for us. Anyone who’s been inside knows how amazing this place is, and in the face of that recent acquisition and other considerations, this will be the last Big takeover to happen there.

The current occupants are holding true to real community activity against the inevitable tide of gentrification (and everything symptomatic of it) so evident in Hackney, by, amongst all the other rad stuff they have done so far, allowing people like me and you to share their space. So come out and support this space (as well as another benefit, this time for APS) bring your own booze, you can bring records zines tapes shirts and anything else you fancy selling, make your own culture and be a real life human being, cuz what WE do is still fuckin’ secret.

Ten all ages DIY shows in one year.
Here’s number ten – Come and party.

GLAM
Stupendous hardcore from Espana
http://www.myspace.com/glambarcelona
HYGIENE
Part time punks (pro rata) welcome you to the grand lodge. Oi La Vey.
http://www.myspace.com/hygieneldn
SATURDAY’S KIDS
Welsh humans making distorted noisy interesting punk, not just for the weekend
http://artforblind.bandcamp.com/album/saturdays-kids-s-t-7
THE LOWEST FORM
The lowest form of Musik. First show. London.
http://www.lavidaesunmus.com/

8PM – £5.
Love, Big Takeover.

WAIT, WHAT? Somehow we’ve landed the chance to ‘Takeover’ one of the world’s most respected spaces for contemporary art. I know right? It’ll be in the midst of a pop-up record store and a bunch of other performances as part of Daily, Action, Poetry at the Hayward. I’ve chosen some of the raddest new and exciting DIY bands to show we mean business. BTO will be starting around 2pm, bands shortly after! Come down for a weird/crazy/awesome afternoon and then jump in the Thames to cool off. If you have records to sell (or tapes or zines)  and would like the chance to do so in a world-reknowned gallery please just bring them down between 10 and 11am on the day  (if you can’t make this, email isobelharbison@gmail.com to find out how to get them in the store) whatever you have, but make sure its priced so it can be sold easily by the staff there, and it will make up the stock in the record store! Cool, non?

THE VENUE IS A NEW AUTONOMOUS SPACE IN CAMBERWELL CALLED RATSTAR. Very exciting. You will be headed down Walworth road, past Burgess park on your left as you head south, the venue is on the street where Medlar street and bullace row meet Camberwell Road. Youll be following signs south and the venue faces ‘camberwell green’. THE POST CODE IS SE5 0DL

This gig is a Benefit for LCAP again, and the 1 in 12 Social centre in Bradford, which was broken into and robbed this month. The place is a bloody punk rock institution, and autonomous spaces are hard enough to maintain without errant theivery.

I’m off to San Francisco for June, so Ellis and Jack will be running shit more than usual, and also stepping in are Ola and Gaz. We’re super excited to be working with Hyknos/Stomp studios who run the delightful 2nd Floor Cafe in Netil House. They’ve super kindly allowed us to Takeover for a night – they have an AMAZING (literally) view of the whole of london and a roof terrace and a cheap bar (so please don’t BYO, thanks.)

Facebook thing:

Directions wise it is equidistant from Bethnal Green tube station and Hackney Central overground, here is the Google Map. You’ll enter round the side just next to the train bridge, and go up the fire escape!

Is happening in a new basement space on Stoke Newington High street (Number 175)

Here’s a great article published by representatives of the Rampart collective, who, shortly after kindly allowing us to do a Big Takeover number 2 in their long-established Social centre on Rampart St in Whitechapel at the back end of last year, were forcibly evicted. Various temporary new spaces have been established but luck it appears has not been on their side since then, a situation which it seems has been made worse by unfortunately divisive decisions made by some. The article asks, ‘Why is London one of the few large cities in Europe which currently doesn’t have a thriving social centres movement despite the fact that squatting in England is still legal?’ Read it here.

To everyone who came out to the Gig on Friday, it was brilliantly well-attended and everyone had fun and we raised lots of dough for the Asylum Aid Women’s Network.

195 Mare St is undergoing some unfortunate renovations in the coming weeks but if its ever viable for a gig in the future we hope to be back there soon. For now, once again unto the breach dear friends, time to sniff out a venue for the next Big Takeover, which will be on May 13th, and include bands from Chicago and Ireland. Get excited!

Link to Facebook group here (so you can show off about coming)

Link to Google Map here (so you can follow through on that)

Features of the brilliant 195 Mare Street autonomous space:

- INDOOR BIKE PARKING
- AWESOME DECOR
- PING PONG

*IMPORTANT* This gig finishes at 11pm, so the first band will be on very shortly after 8pm. You were warned! FLYER AFTER THE JUMP…

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