Hullabaloo NYE 2015

NYE on Telegraph Hill

Little Nan's hilltop hangout

Little Nan, the locally-born party pensioner, has been floozing her way around the hipsteriest parts of London for a while, but is returning to her hood in August. She says:

I wanted to let you know that I will be popping up at the Hill Station on Telegraph Hill for 2 weekends from 14th August - 23rd August and will be spoiling New Cross with Cocktails served from Teapots, Jerk Shack Street food, Gina's Cabaret show and a Sunday Roast Lunch. 

We are now taking bookings which we recommend for those of you who plan to come for your Birthday, but walk in's are totally okay too as we will have an outside seated area for those of you who want to enjoy a Cocktail at Sunset looking over Telegraph Hill park. 

Do let me know if it is your Celebration and Little Nan will name a cocktail in your honour!

Full info can be found here.

Biblical floods hit The Hill Station

"Every living substance that I have made will I destroy." 
- God

Somebody's been serving shellfish. God decided to knock Telegraph Hill cafe The Hill Station right off their fucking perch today as the lofty venue was subjected to "biblical" flooding and diners were hit with 3-4 inches of rainwater. This Radio Five interview with cafe worker Ruari Lea explains what happened. The Telegraph Hill Society will be offering their first born as a precaution against further plagues.

 

Italian Nights at the Hill Station

Jacqui writes:

Thursday Night is Italian Nights at The Hill Station Café.

This week, we'll be serving delights such as Homemade Codfish Ravioli (£9) and Seasonal Mushroom Fettuccine and Pan Friend Tuna with pesto, almonds served with Fennel ,orange, olive and capers (£13).

Every Thursday over the summer renowned fine dining chef Antonio Acone invites you to try his authentic Italian dishes with a choice of starters – pastas – main courses – and desserts. There will also be live music, and a selection of Italian beer and wine will be available.

You can reserve a table by ringing the café on 0207 635 2955

Silent Disco Tropical

Like Arcade Fire, The Sopranos and Pogs, silent discos are something we just don't get, but people seem to like. So here you go:

Silent Disco - Tropical (July 12th)

Summer's in full swing and we're dancing 'til the roof blows off at the Hill Station Café. Our turntable maestros bring you a fiery mix of Latin vibes, a fiesta full of funk and enough Brazilian beats to rival Rio!

So get your maracas out, brush up on your boogaloo and come shake your tail feathers at the Hill Station's very own World Cup Carnivale. Your ticket includes: Wireless headphones tune in & turn on Competing DJ's choose your fave tropical rhythms Free Fruity Cocktail on arrival Prizes for best dressed ¡Ay, caramba!

Click here for tickets (£12).

Yapa Kitto

Jazz-World Night at the Hill Station (Kitto Road) on Friday May 2nd will feature Yapa, an acclaimed French quartet (3 guitars and percussions). Their music is a mix of traditional influences from Europe, Africa and India. Salwa Azar will open the night with her ukulele and voice. Entry is free.

Friday May 2nd, doors 6pm, music 8pm. With thanks to organiser Giom for the info.

Hill Top Chef needed

Telegraph Hill's Community Café is looking for a chef. They say:

We are urgently seeking to appoint an experienced Chef to work up to 5 shifts a week preparing daily specials, short orders (including breakfasts) and be responsible for planning and delivering the menu for each week. This position would be for an initial 3 months to cover the absence of our current chef. Payment will be calculated on an hourly basis (above London living wage minimum).

Full details here.

The Hill Station's First Birthday

The Hill Station on Telegraph Hill celebrates its first birthday this week. They say:

Friday 2nd September the Hill Station are having a big party to celebrate being open for a year. Bring yourselves and something to drink (still working on the licence). There will be a PA and piano so if you want to entertain bring your noseflute and whatever.

The New Cross Food Group

You need to focus on the neglected food groups, such as the whipped group, the congealed group and the Chocotastic!

- Dr Nick Riviera

Transition New Cross writes:

Do you grow your own food? Would you like to sell your surplus? Interested in a planned new Community Supermarket? Come along to the launch of the Transition New Cross Food Group and find out more!

Date:June 21st

Place: The Hill Station cafe (Kitto Road by Telegraph Hill Park) SE14 5TY

Time: 7.15pm (7:30pm sharp start) until 9.00 pm

Explore ideas for how our community can make our food more sustainable, local, healthy and fair for all. Promoting local food growing, food Co-ops and a Peoples Supermarket for New Cross. Join us and help make it happen! Everyone welcome!

For inquiries email: transitionnewcross@gmail.com
Web: transitionnewcross.org

Hill Station Book Sale, tonight from 6.30pm

There's a charity bring and buy book sale tonight at The Hill Station, Telegraph Hill, from 6.30pm - 8.30pm.

The emphasis is on the 'buy', rather than the 'bring', since the organisers claim to have "skip loads" of great books.

Literature of Crisis

Tamsin's sent us the details for a bring and buy sale at the Hill Station on January 26th.

New Year's Eve

Please use this thread to recommend local NYE options. If you run a local venue, please tell us what you're up to.

This much we know:

Jam Circus will be staging a Roswell-themed party while The Hill Station will be having a party from 8.30pm and they're asking people to bring their own food, drink, firewood and fireworks.

The Hill Station Boxing Day Sharing Lunch

Catherine writes:

On Boxing Day the Hill Station will be open for a community lunch from 12 till 4pm.

Everybody is welcome. No food will be for sale so bring something to add to the table and we'll all muck in together. We hope that some people will join us who might be short of a friendly face, so if you can think of anyone in your road who might welcome the distraction please encourage them to come along.

Please feel free to join us and even stay to clear up afterwards if you like!

The Hill Station - Inception

Jebediah Springfield: People, our search is over! On this site we shall build a new town where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets.

Shelbyville Manhattan: Yes! And marry our cousins.

JS: I was- wha... what are you talking about, Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?

SM: Because they're so attractive. I... I thought that was the whole point of this journey.

JS: Absolutely not!

SM: I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins!

- The Simpsons , Lemon of Troy

We once went skiing in Livigno, a duty-free resort in the Italian Alps. During the transfer, the guide told us that its remoteness and inaccessibility during the winter meant that the town’s population enjoyed a disproportionately high number of genetic mutations, due to inbreeding.

We’re not suggesting for one moment that everyone in Telegraph Hill is related, but a trek up to the top can feel like a visit to The Lost World. An idyll untouched by the concerns of outsiders and a place so altitudinous, that even the TV signal struggles with the climb, forcing people to make their own programmes. Residents of The Hill are fiercely tribal, quicker to slap us down if we suggest it’s basically Brockley than RMT members are when we call the ELL a tube line.

If you lived in one of the streets surrounding the Telegraph Hill parks, there are very few reasons why you’d need to come down. Green space, great views, excellent schools, a decent pub, your own festivals - The Hill has it all. One of the few remaining ties they had to the wider world was the need to climb down the hill to go to a cafe. But no more.

The Hill Station cafe formally opened on Sunday as part of the Big Lunch street party on Kitto Road. It’s the result of hard work by local people, who’ve taken over an unpromising site, underneath the former Cafe Orange and turned it in to something wonderful.More communal living room than cafe, it feels like a lighter, roomier version of former Brockley favourite Moonbow Jakes.

Food and drink were served from a barbecue and tables outside, so it’s too early to comment on what it will be like to order on a normal day. What we can say is that it’s very jolly – sliding wooden doors which open out towards the park, touches of humour in the furnishing and decoration and lots of light and space, which will lend itself to community activities, rather than just eating and drinking.

The event drew hundreds of people and the sense of pride in what the community had achieved was palpable.

As we walked around the dream world populated by 1950s bunting, mass participation clay sculptures and bring-and-buy stalls run by young children, we felt like Leonardo DiCaprio wrestling with the unreal in Inception. Like him, and like the people of Telegraph Hill, we had to ask ourselves; does it matter if the top stops spinning?