Brixton chitter chatter and news and updates (Feb-Aug 2011)
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Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
They did a week ago when I was there too. Excuses, excuses...
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
No. He's a tit. But I'll let Ed tell the tale.
However, by all accounts the guy down Atlantic Road just past Ichiban is very good. I've seen their work on a couple of fussy types and it's all good
I go to Tidy Hair and they're great. As does hendo. More pricey than a traditional barber,s though for a bloke. I recommend Sean. Apparently Marc Almond was in there today.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
This morning, Loughborough Junction
It's IN MOTION. Official.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Which only proves that I was there before you, so ner!
How rude! I was there on the second day they were open and the prices were written clearly on the counter. You're the one disseminating wrong information, so
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hiraethified
I was walking through the market with nipsla and eme and I took one quick snapshot of the front of the shop on my little camera from the other side of the walkway as we passed by. The photo only showed the shopfront and had no one in it.
Next thing I know, I've got this guy in my face demanding to know what I'm doing, with his mate lurking behind. He didn't bother introducing himself so I had no idea who he was. When I realised he was from the shop, I explained that I was a local photographer taking snaps for a blog that is generally supportive of small independent businesses, but he just carried on getting stroppier.
In the end, I gave up trying to make sense of the guy and suggested that, seeing as we'd clearly got off on the wrong foot, we could agree to disagree and just shake hands and leave it at that. He refused and, frankly, ended up making a right fucking arse of himself. I won't be recommending his shop to anyone.
Despite being annoyed by his bizarre outburst, I'm not going to do a Google top-ranking slag-off of his shop because, well, I'm not really into trying to hurt local businesses, even when their owner has serious issues with manners.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i may go there with my camera later 
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hiraethified
i may go there with my camera later
Thing is, the market is full of kids taking pictures, so he must be in and out of that shop every five minutes.
The funny thing is that the girl working at the ice cream shop next door is only too happy to pose for pictures!
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hiraethified
My favourite quote from him was that he didn't like "strangers" taking photos of his shopfront. Which is a pretty weird thing to say, no matter how you spin it.
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hiraethified
I offered to sign his shop window and everything.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i may try it out tomorrow then. 
cheers!
cheers!That's bonkers. I gave them a printout of the posts about their licence. They were very appreciative. Later that day I took the pic of their shopfront which I posted upthread, and they were happy with that too.
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hiraethified
It was very odd indeed. I only took one picture, he wasn't in the picture, I wasn't even that close to the shop when I took the picture and I had a very discrete camera not a big SLR.
By the time he came out I'd already moved on and was framing a quick shot of the smiling girl outside the ice cream parlour next door.
But I can forgive him all that if it wasn't for his pathetic refusal to accept our differences, agree that we weren't going to get on and shake on my outstretched hand. That refusal marked him out to be an utter wanker.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
that's what i was thinking - he was thinking he had nothing to lose
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hiraethified
Haranguing people in the street is never a good business strategy, especially when a really stinky review has the potential to send customers elsewhere.
I'm not going to post up that review, but I certainly won't be recommending the place to anyone.
greenhouse
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i may go there with my camera later
Me too, what a tosser, I think you are allowed to take snaps in the market, I always try and be discreteish and just walk away quick if anyone starts, just walk away. But I think it was threatening behavior and he shouldn't get away with it, bully boy , just a nasty paranoid bully.
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hiraethified
Wow. Are you missing the point.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
It's a tattoo parlour. I'd say urban was exactly his target market.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Wow. Are you missing the point.
From what I understand (based on comments on this thread) it's tattoos and haircuts for quasi-Shoreditch types. They'll go there if their friends talk about it or if there is a good write-up in some wanky magazine or they walk past on their way to get vegan cupcakes. They aren't going to google "Haircut Brixton" to choose their hairdresser and are unlikely to spend their free time reading urban75.
Do you reckon there is a higher occurrence of tattoos in the u75 readership than in the general population Ms T? Seems unlikely to me.
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You're really quite painfully clueless.
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