Brixton Beach Boulevard introduces No Tracksuit dress code

[Nanker Phelge]

Tbh Brixton's gone downhill since the jacket potato place shut and brady's closed.

Oddly enough I wondered to myself the other day 'Did this all start to go wrong when Brady's closed?'

 

[Nanker Phelge]

So you can turn up in speedos, but not in a tracky..

 

[Reiabuzz]

As much as I hate the very thought of this place I think the 'no tracksuits' thing is tongue in cheek. Just really, really clumsily done.

Otherwise I agree with every piece of vitriol that guy vomits up there. Nicely put.

 

[friendofdorothy]

perhaps they are trying to keep out all those hordes of returning olypians.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Or Run DMC

 

[editor]

It's closing soon anyway to make way for those luxury lifestyle flats that the locals have been crying out for.

 

[Sirena]

So you can turn up in speedos, but not in a tracky..

Is it an islamophobic thing?

 

[Orang Utan]

I've been reading Carl Neville's Resolution Way, which is set in a near future gentrified South East London. A scene in which a character walks past the Job Centre (an bona fide real pub in Deptford) reminded me of the situation in Brixton, with bars like this in particular:

She has always refused to go in as she knows there is an unofficial door policy about keeping the wrong people out, but in practice this never needs to be explicitly enforced, already there is a powerful hex of wealth and white privilege, a magic threshold that means that people stop and glance in through the window, hear the music, see the faces, the decor and understand. She heard Laura and her friends talking about this just the other week, gentrification, the way wealth and poverty coexist, one on top of the other, the same streets, the same spaces, yet seem to be two radically separate realms, people negotiating in and around each other, screening things out, being buffeted and directed by sets of unconscious pressures. Lewis wants to smash it to pieces, break down the invisible barriers, really see, but she knows how hard it is, how hard it is. In the Jobcentre everyone’s white, at least down in the Wetherspoon’s in Greenwich, by the DLR, you get a mix of people, but this has become a separate space.

Neville, Carl. Resolution Way (Kindle Locations 2878-2885). Repeater. Kindle Edition.

 

[CH1]

I've been reading Carl Neville's Resolution Way, which is set in a near future gentrified South East London. A scene in which a character walks past the Job Centre (an bona fide real pub in Deptford) reminded me of the situation in Brixton, with bars like this in particular:

The Job Centre is an Antic pub. I remember there being a debate here about their promotion publicity when it opened, noting that we also have Antic pubs here in Brixton - first the Dogstar, then Effra Social - and recently added Eckovision.

There was also some bad feeling about treatment of licensees at the Camberwell Antic pubs.

 

[Gramsci]

I've been reading Carl Neville's Resolution Way, which is set in a near future gentrified South East London. A scene in which a character walks past the Job Centre (an bona fide real pub in Deptford) reminded me of the situation in Brixton, with bars like this in particular:

What do u think of the novel?

See the writer has also written on film. Two books which both look interesting to me.

 

[Orang Utan]

What do u think of the novel?

See the writer has also written on film. Two books which both look interesting to me.

I haven't finished it - each chapter is from the perspective of a different character and some are more convincing than others, but I'm enjoying it immensely.
there's an interesting Owen Hatherley review of it:
‘In 20 years Inner London may really be like Paris, a wealthy centre surrounded by racialised poverty’

 

[phillm]

I may not have been looking but haven't seen an urban trackie in ages (apart from Blackpool where I come from) so could it possibly be a redundnant dress code rule? If you put brixton track suit this image comes up with #brixton #partyoutfit #summerwear so it would appear that currently #brixton is the must have hashtag.

 

[Lizzy Mac]

I think that the youngsters may be getting back into them. I stopped a young woman last week to ask her where she had got her trousers from only to discover it was tracksuit bottoms from JD Sports. Lovely too, still might get them.

 

[editor]

If anyone has any interest left in more fucking Brixton burgers...

2015 YBFs Chef of the Year Adam Rawson will take over the rooftop at Brixton Beach on Thursday 1st June for one night only, for the launch of “BBQ Thursdays on the Beach”.

Winner of the “Slider Decider” challenge two years in a row, Adam will showcase his limited edition Cubano Medianoche Burger as well as an array of exclusive BBQ dishes including Pina Colada Ceviche, Pollo Al Estillo Cubano (Cuban-style chicken, avocado mayo, salsa criolla) and Spiced Fries with Mojo Verde.

Coinciding with #NationalBBQWeek, the event will run from 6pm until 11pm and is free to enter. Guests can guarantee their chance to sample Adam’s special menu by ordering a food token in advance from Brixton Rooftop via Design My Night: goo.gl/AoAmtp

 

[souljacker]

What's a ceviche got to do with a bbq?

 

[editor]

There was a mahoosive queue outside today.

 

[madolesance]

There was a mahoosive queue outside today.

Should we avoid or join the mahoosive queue? Direction is needed......

 

[editor]

Should we avoid or join the mahoosive queue? Direction is needed......

I think it shuts at 1am so there's your answer (but you'll know that by now!).

 

[editor]

The queue tonight was mahooosive!

In photos: massive queues for Brixton Beach stretch into Atlantic Road