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spitfire said:
God yeah, forgotten about them.
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I have to be careful here, too many lurid tales, things could get litigious 😀
anyway the A1 People were the only Brixton promoters foolish enough to put our combo on, at Mass iirc.
think they may also have done nights at dogstar, and father redcap on camberwell green, they were a larf live but the star for me was turntablist DJ d-zine who does not get a mention in the discogs listing ....
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....I remember Simeon telling me his motivation partly came from his one time flatmates Jefferson Hack ( one time mr Kate mos) and his mate rankin of ‘dazed‘fame saying he would never be anything with his silly synths 😳 anyway here’s a couple of tunes from otherr projects.....( not a big fan of their recorded output as A1)
simeon as pentatonic.....



matt bumbelle with caspar from the drillaz.....
 
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cuppa tee said:
I have to be careful here, too many lurid tales, things could get litigious 😀
anyway the A1 People were the only Brixton promoters foolish enough to put our combo on, at Mass iirc.
think they may also have done nights at dogstar, and father redcap on camberwell green, they were a larf live but the star for me was turntablist DJ d-zine who does not get a mention in the discogs listing ....
www.discogs.com

A1 People

Explore the discography of A1 People. Shop for vinyl, CDs, and more from A1 People on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
....I remember Simeon telling me his motivation partly came from his one time flatmates Jefferson Hack ( one time mr Kate mos) and his mate rankin of ‘dazed‘fame saying he would never be anything with his silly synths 😳 anyway here’s a couple of tunes from otherr projects.....( not a big fan of their recorded output as A1)
simeon as pentatonic.....



matt bumbelle with caspar from the drillaz.....
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Blimey, Matt Bumble. A friend of mine, we're still in contact. :)

What was your combo called? I did bookings at Mass (and Dogstar) for a while so may remember.
 
spitfire said:
Blimey, Matt Bumble. A friend of mine, we're still in contact. :)

What was your combo called? I did bookings at Mass (and Dogstar) for a while so may remember.
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Yeah I am still in touch with Bumble thru socia, but his posting has lessened since his move to the PRc, before that he was threatening to bring his fiddle to camberwell for an Irish jam. I’ve got mr bow rings number too, but last time I saw him in the flesh was when Weatherall played phonox.

I am gonna mostly leave our band out of this thread, we were not a true Brixton outfit we only had a handful of DJ sets and one live appearance in the area, our ‘studio‘ such as it was was in Stockwell/Kennington tho’ and there were plenty of other connections which may or may not be worthy of mention. I may message you when I get a minute tho’ as we seem to have crossed paths in a few places....
 
editor said:
I encountered a vast swathe of Brixton's old school alternative/activist/Cooltan scene last night at Offshore's wake and was pleased to see that many hadn't lost their appetite for a wild night out! One bloke had managed to fit a sound system into a monowheel scooter thing!
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I guess there is some protocol to be observed but it sounds like this event might have made a good feature for B.Buzz.
 
cuppa tee said:
Yeah I am still in touch with Bumble thru socia, but his posting has lessened since his move to the PRc, before that he was threatening to bring his fiddle to camberwell for an Irish jam. I’ve got mr bow rings number too, but last time I saw him in the flesh was when Weatherall played phonox.

I am gonna mostly leave our band out of this thread, we were not a true Brixton outfit we only had a handful of DJ sets and one live appearance in the area, our ‘studio‘ such as it was was in Stockwell/Kennington tho’ and there were plenty of other connections which may or may not be worthy of mention. I may message you when I get a minute tho’ as we seem to have crossed paths in a few places....
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Matt lived just up the road from me until he moved, we kept making promises to go for a pint when we bumped into each other but never got round to it. I knew him mostly through hanging out at The End. we also have loads of mutuals from Dublin. Good fella.
 
Thompson Twins.....

“Arriving in London with very little money, they lived as squatters in Lillieshall Road, Clapham. Future Thompson Twins member Alannah Currie (born 20 September 1957, Auckland, New Zealand) lived in another squat in the same street, which is how she met Bailey. It was in this ramshackle and run-down house that they found an illegal way of "borrowing" electricity from the house next door. Bailey described them, laughingly, as having been "spongers" at the time, for they were living on very little money, and scavenging everything they could lay their hands on. He even said that the only instruments they had were bought, or had been stolen or borrowed. Dodd managed to get a council flat (public housing) not far away. Their roadie at that time was John Hade, who lived in the same house, and who later became their manager.....”

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What attracted me to Brixton, long before i lived here, was the amount of clubs in the area in the early noughties often hosting nights playing the music of my choice at the time (and still now, if im being honest) which was Trance and Hard House. I'm sure you'll be familiar but the likes of The Fridge, 414, Mass, George IV, Telegraph and Frantic/Hard House Academy's. Music has moved on now and/or those venues have closed but Brixton (along with Vauxhall and Camden Palace) served certain ravers of that era very well. Looking forward to Peach and Club UK reunion at The Electric on October 1st.
 
I don't recall who was on stage - sorry. Sonia was certainly popular back then, but don't think I saw much of the main stage. It was the first of several pride events in brockwell 93 & 94 were definitely there too. (93 had Boy George and Gabrielle)

Mostly I recall the sheer number of people there, estimated at the time as 100,000 - 200,000. Not sure there was any official count back then, as it was free, no tickets. It suddenly made the population in general aware that us queer people existed.

I'm thinking of doing a local community event to bring together organisers, volunteers and performers.
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
What attracted me to Brixton, long before i lived here, was the amount of clubs in the area in the early noughties often hosting nights playing the music of my choice at the time (and still now, if im being honest) which was Trance and Hard House. I'm sure you'll be familiar but the likes of The Fridge, 414, Mass, George IV, Telegraph and Frantic/Hard House Academy's. Music has moved on now and/or those venues have closed but Brixton (along with Vauxhall and Camden Palace) served certain ravers of that era very well. Looking forward to Peach and Club UK reunion at The Electric on October 1st.
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There’s a clubU.K. reunion ?

....here’s a piece on it, not fact checked btw, I knew a lot of people who went there but not me personally

history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com

Club UK in Wandsworth: Love, Ecstasy and Crime

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friendofdorothy said:
Next year marks 30 years since the very first EuroPride happened in Brockwell Park in June 1992. Anyone here attend?

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friendofdorothy said:
I don't recall who was on stage - sorry. Sonia was certainly popular back then, but don't think I saw much of the main stage. It was the first of several pride events in brockwell 93 & 94 were definitely there too. (93 had Boy George and Gabrielle)

Mostly I recall the sheer number of people there, estimated at the time as 100,000 - 200,000. Not sure there was any official count back then, as it was free, no tickets. It suddenly made the population in general aware that us queer people existed.

I'm thinking of doing a local community event to bring together organisers, volunteers and performers.
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thanks for contributing to the thread, yes I was present, I can’t remember if Sonia performed, I went for the experience rather than the music...I knew Sonia‘s hairdresser tho.
 
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This just got shared on a Facebook group identifying the singer Debbie Lee as a Brixton gal
theres little info on discogs, but I will dig deeper in time....




not a bad tune as it goes, probably has been ( or will be ) sampled by someone like Mark Ronson.
...lyrics have definitely have NOT aged well though...
 
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on this day 28 years ago.....


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...time keeps on moving....this was about 20 years after Deep Purples hay day also 15 squid sounds like a lot of sushi in them days...
here’s the set list ( they didn’t play fireball )



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I ended up at this somehow



and what a sad affair it was....
j.lydon berating the crowd with
‘there’ll always be an england’
with a theatrical sneer
i was up in the circle and it felt like a far right rally
loads of blokes my age doing straight arm salutes.
....a far cry from the days of the ‘spots’ in Scarborough.
 
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cuppa tee said:
I ended up at this somehow



and what a sad affair it was....
j.lydon berating the crowd with
‘there’ll always be an england’
with a theatrical sneer
i was up in the circle and it felt like a far right rally
loads of blokes my age doing straight arm salutes.
....a far cry from the days of the ‘spots’ in Scarborough.
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I saw that gig too, but only because I was given a free ticket. Sad.
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
One of those shows was broadcast on TV quite recently, not sure of the channel etc, and i was quite uncomfortable watching it.
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I was very uncomfortable being there, the people around me were the same type who’d have given young me a beating for looking like I did when ’anarchy’ came out...I gotta say I thought Lydon was taking the rise out of them at the time...
 
cuppa tee said:
I was very uncomfortable being there, the people around me were the same type who’d have given young me a beating for looking like I did when ’anarchy’ came out...I gotta say I thought Lydon was taking the rise out of them at the time...
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Punk (to me) was about challenging convention and being in a constant state of flux, taking in new ideas and influences in fashion, culture and music.

Most of the people in that crowd appeared to have been unchanged in attitude and (ahem) 'style' since circa 1978. It was a pretty miserable gig.
 
When the Albert was a bloody great live venue - this is from 11 years ago.

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Brixton Offline Christmas party with the Actionettes, Dr Vampire, Werewandas and DJs at the Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9, 10th December 2010

Brixton Offline Christmas party with the Actionettes, Dr Vampire, Werewandas and DJs at the Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9, 10th December 2010
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When the Albert was a bloody great live venue - this is from 11 years ago.

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Brixton Offline Christmas party with the Actionettes, Dr Vampire, Werewandas and DJs at the Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9, 10th December 2010

Brixton Offline Christmas party with the Actionettes, Dr Vampire, Werewandas and DJs at the Prince Albert, 418 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9, 10th December 2010
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I remember going to one of these off lines but no live music that I remember...
 
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