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Planning application in for a change of use of the old Unison office on Acre Lane to become a Nightingales cafe, they are already based in Balham.
 
Very busy session at the food bank yesterday. Current wish list for those would like to and are able to donate: UHT milk, instant coffee, pasta sauce, toiletries, fruit juice, tinned potatoes, tinned meat/fish, biscuits, toilet roll, nappies. Can't say enough how gratefully received all donations are.
 
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StubHub have wrapped the ticket gates at Brixton for their new campaign and there doesn't seem to be one fucking non-white face in the whole thing.

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thatguyhex said:
StubHub have wrapped the ticket gates at Brixton for their new campaign and there doesn't seem to be one fucking non-white face in the whole thing.

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I've never seen a black ticket tout though. Those half-toothed alcoholic types seeking and selling tickets, in their shit leather jackets, are always white.

Maybe stubhub have done some demographic analysis into the sort of fucker who makes an easy quid through denying people access to an event which they never intended to go to themselves.
 
Smick said:
I've never seen a black ticket tout though. Those half-toothed alcoholic types seeking and selling tickets, in their shit leather jackets, are always white.

Maybe stubhub have done some demographic analysis into the sort of fucker who makes an easy quid through denying people access to an event which they never intended to go to themselves.
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Never been outside the station on an academy night i take it?
 
Two stories from last night:
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what was the turn out like for this ?
[ i wouldve gone meself but found i lacked funds]
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I arrived late (as usual) so the numbers had thinned out. The A3 weren't expected to do a second set so I was extra chuffed to see them play in such an intimate setting without a heaving crowd. I'll post some pics up shortly.
 
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Alabama 3 put in a great set at the 3rd anniversary of the opening of the Crown & Anchor tonight. :thumbs:
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i dont get how things such as this, i.e. a very hip and cool band playing in a very hip bar get your approval, but then similar stuff that has began just recently gets your disapproval. it's all the same, can't you see that? it's all part of the same socio-economic process. at least be consistent.
 
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i dont get how things such as this, i.e. a very hip and cool band playing in a very hip bar get your approval, but then similar stuff that has began just recently gets your disapproval. it's all the same, can't you see that? it's all part of the same socio-economic process. at least be consistent.
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This is a thread for Brixton news so I'm not really interested in indulging your ad hominems or half cocked character analysis.

PS You are aware that Alabama 3 are a local band with a long track record of supporting social issues and that the gig was free, yes? Not quite the same as a £100 meal for two in the Cheeky Udder or whatever the fuck the place is called.
 
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I arrived late (as usual) so the numbers had thinned out. The A3 weren't expected to do a second set so I was extra chuffed to see them play in such an intimate setting without a heaving crowd. I'll post some pics up shortly.
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Damn they played a second set? I left stupidly, but then again I'd had my fair share of pints and needed to save the pennies and the brain for work this morning. Great way to spend a Monday evening..
 
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Damn they played a second set? I left stupidly, but then again I'd had my fair share of pints and needed to save the pennies and the brain for work this morning. Great way to spend a Monday evening..
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Yes, and it was most excellent!
 
Alabama 3 are not hip, were never hip. They reek of Brixton, especially the drug drenched hazy days of the lates 80s and early 90s...and they've continued to keep Brixton at the centre of their music, politics and maintain a presence here, support lots of local initiatives and causes, record here, play live for free, keep a regular nite going at Jamm, play for things they care about.

Alabama 3 is one of the weakest weapons I've seen brandished against Editor in this ongoing witch hunt to out him as some gentrification sympathising double agent.
 
editor said:
This is a thread for Brixton news so I'm not really interested in indulging your ad hominems or half cocked character analysis.

PS You are aware that Alabama 3 are a local band with a long track record of supporting social issues and that the gig was free, yes? Not quite the same as a £100 meal for two in the Cheeky Udder or whatever the fuck the place is called.
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but the reason why the banter pop up vibrant hub shit is there is because of gigs like that in bars like that. get rid of some elements and make allowances for others? gentrification is i suppose taking rough with smooth - brilliant nights out at nice bars but the loss is say more useful shops or higher rents.

come to thornton heath. cheap housing, loads of cheap local shops but we haven't seen a beard or a cupcake or a night out like watching alabama 3 in a cool bar since the victorian times.

a neros in the neath would be nice though :hmm:
 
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Nanker Phelge said:
Alabama 3 are not hip, were never hip. They reek of Brixton, especially the drug drenched hazy days of the lates 80s and early 90s...and they've continued to keep Brixton at the centre of their music, politics and maintain a presence here, support lots of local initiatives and causes, record here, play live for free, keep a regular nite going at Jamm, play for things they care about.

Alabama 3 is one of the weakest weapons I've seen brandished against Editor in this ongoing witch hunt to out him as some gentrification sympathising double agent.
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and brixton wasn't being gentrified in the late 80s and 90s? of course it was. i've been hitting the clubs in brixton since the mid 90s and the process was well on its way
 
Nanker Phelge said:
Alabama 3 are not hip, were never hip. They reek of Brixton, especially the drug drenched hazy days of the lates 80s and early 90s...and they've continued to keep Brixton at the centre of their music, politics and maintain a presence here, support lots of local initiatives and causes, record here, play live for free, keep a regular nite going at Jamm, play for things they care about.
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Yep. You'd be hard pushed to find a more 'Brixton' band than Alabama 3, and they've done far more benefits than just about any other band I can think of. If I'd been clapping along to some uber-trendy Vice-approved nu-band with wacko haircuts who'd just jetted in from East London and were charging £10 entry to play an uber cool nu-club, he might possibly have some kind of point. But it was a free gig in a pub.
 
It has all always been a place of change, but not at anywhere the speed or to the detriment of long term residents, that the last 2 years has witnessed.

I've been here nearly 25 years and people didn't have 'money'. No one I was coming into contact with anyway.
 
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