New Cross Inn

New Cross Inn

File:The New Cross Inn, New Cross (01).jpg The New Cross Inn in October 2021.
Location	323 New Cross Rd, Lewisham, London, SE14
Construction
Opened	1800s

The New Cross Inn is a music venue and pub located at 323 New Cross Road, in the New Cross area of the London Borough of Lewisham, in south-east London.

History

A pub with that name has existed in that area since at least the late 1700s, though the current building is estimated to be from the late 1800s. Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames from 1880 refers to an angling society based there.

In the 1890s a political group named the International Anarchist Agitator Group organised a 'Social Evening' at the pub during which songs were played on piano, followed by Anarchist declarations and speeches.

The pub was briefly called Bar Alchemy in the 2000s before reverting.

In the late 2000s, around the time of new rave's popularity in the music press and the Angular Recording Corporation bringing attention to the area, it first became known as an alternative music venue. By the 2010s it had become more known for punk rock and ska punk.

Notable performers

• 999
• Apologies, I Have None
• A Wilhelm Scream
• Big Joanie
• Chelsea
• Chorusgirl
• Crash of Rhinos
• Crazy Town
• Dawn Ray'd
• Department S
• Discharge
• Earth Crisis
• Extreme Noise Terror
• False Advertising
• Fiddlehead
• Fresh
• Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band
• Goldfinger
• (Hed) P.E.
• The Lurkers
• The Meteors
• Musical Youth
• Oi Polloi
• Pete Doherty
• Petrol Girls
• Pop Levi
• The Selecter
• Skinny Girl Diet
• Spizzenergi
• Splodgenessabounds
• Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life
• The Sugarhill Gang
• The Television Personalities
• TV Smith
• The Vibrators
• War on Women