The park is not just a place to empty the dog out and get mugged for your phone, or to race pushchairs and crash odd-shaped bikes. All human life is here. Kids stand contentedly smearing [...]
Author Archives: Steve Overbury
About Steve Overbury
Now a writer, Steve has also been a record company staffer, a recording engineer, a band manager, a graphic designer, a pig farmer, a fishmonger and Joan Collins’ chauffeur. His first book, Guns, Cash and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Managers was published in 2007, and London Babylon: The Beatles and the Stones in the Swinging Sixties was published in November 2009.
Brief Encounter
Spotted anyone famous in the Dog? Steve Overbury once saw Georgie Fame (famous by name etc.), and on another occasion, gasp, Andrew Ridgeley, but he wishes he had been at the bar 99 years ago [...]
The Dulwich Dreamboat
It was one of those nights a long time ago. A gang of young men sat in the back bar of the EDT, tired of playing pool and bored with recycling stories. When people start [...]
Get off my land
For millennia, the Great North Woods were the domain of Mother Nature, then the king – guess which one – rudely robbed her. And when Henry VIII said to the people, ‘Get off my land,” [...]
Middle Class Dub Vol: 1 by Sly & Reggie
You may have seen and heard local heroes Sly & Reggie around Dulwich blasting out sounds and raps from the back of a black Morris Minor pick up truck, spouting middle class protestations via the [...]
Save the Velodrome
The Herne Hill Velodrome is seriously under threat of closure. The campaign to save it has started with an invitation to a public meeting on 6th October. Please show your support on the Save the [...]
Bad Vibes
Don’t get me wrong; I like the big red buses. I’ve even been known to catch one now and again. In fact the 176 to Tottenham Court Road is like the Nile of South London. [...]
Those Weren’t the Days my Friend
The Lordship Lane of thirty odd years ago had roughly the same buildings but in all other respects was a different world. Steve Overbury rings the changes. You knew where you were in 80s East [...]
