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Brixton Chitter Chatter and News - June 2012

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Or, to put it another way, stop moaning you mardy get, it was you who started all this hipsterization what with your fancy bulletin board and everything.....
Funny thing is that over the years I've had quite a few moaning emails from people complaining that I've been showing Brixton off in a "bad light."

And I'll keep on moaning when I see long term squatters being thrown out of their homes and people I know being priced out of the town they've lived in for decades.
 
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And I'll keep on moaning when I see long term squatters being thrown out of their homes and people I know being priced out of the town they've lived in for decades.
Which are things to get very angry about, rather than iPad-toting hipsters spending good money in local businesses. Even though many of them are obviously tossers.
 
And, in my darker moments, out of me.

Twenty-plus years ago, if I told "outsiders" - work colleagues, acquaintances from college, inlaws etc - that I lived in Brixton, the response was usually, "that's a bit rough isn't it?" or somesuch. And then, not long after, the responses started sometimes to be more like "oh, cool!". The iPad-toting hipsters are just the latest manifestation of the change in public perception of Brixton from dodgy ghetto to hip hangout; and I'm sure U75 has played a part in changing that perception.

Or, to put it another way, stop moaning you mardy get, it was you who started all this hipsterization what with your fancy bulletin board and everything.....

"That's a bit rough isn't it?"! I got looks of pure horror at the thought a person would want to live in Brixton :D

Mixed with pure disdain on occasion :mad:
 
The two things aren't exactly unrelated though, are they?
Yes, they're certainly connected, if not two sides of the same coin, then part of the same changes. Which we are all part of, none of us mere grumpy observers. We all influence, but don't direct, the way our community changes; and our best efforts often - usually - have unintended consequences. Seriously, I think you have influenced Brixton more than many (particularly by running these boards etc for so long), probably mostly for the better, but part of the consequences of your (and others') influence may be the current hipsterisation. It doesn't make it any less depressing, but it means that we can still try to influence matters, accentuate the positives and avoid (or mitigate the effects of) the negatives.


I watched Notting Hill becoming gentrified in the 1980s. It was a frighteningly effective piece of ethnic cleansing led by RBK&C to reclaim the villas and mews of All Saints Road, the frontline, for Notting Hillbillies, and banish the Caribbean community up the Harrow Rd, out of the borough, and into Stonebridge Park (I didn't live there, and didn't consider myself part of that community, but I did a lot of work with the community leaders trying to help them to resist.) . It's not like that here.
 
It's alright. My passive agressive moaning on the internet seems to have caused a quiet lull in his very noisy late night DIY :D

I reckon he sat down for a ciggie and decided to look on here to see if anyone was complaining about the noise, saw your post and thought he better shut up before the noise police were called ;)

I'm going to have to try this when I'm listening to the boom boom boom coming from George IV/George Four/Southside/Music Bar/whatever the fuck it's called nowadays
 
What's the best off-licence in the area for beer selection? I've heard there's somewhere good down Norwood Road but can't find it on Google Maps (the off-licence, that is).
 
What's the best off-licence in the area for beer selection? I've heard there's somewhere good down Norwood Road but can't find it on Google Maps (the off-licence, that is).
The one on Atlantic Road (opp the Lounge) has a better than average selection, last time I looked.
 
I reckon he sat down for a ciggie and decided to look on here to see if anyone was complaining about the noise, saw your post and thought he better shut up before the noise police were called ;)

I'm going to have to try this when I'm listening to the boom boom boom coming from George IV/George Four/Southside/Music Bar/whatever the fuck it's called nowadays

Apparently that's not always coming from the venue. I know someone who lives even closer to it than you and they tell me that when it's closed people turn up in cars with megaloud stereos and hang out. Weirdos.
 
What's the best off-licence in the area for beer selection? I've heard there's somewhere good down Norwood Road but can't find it on Google Maps (the off-licence, that is).
The Lambert MiniMart near the new "BrickBox" scholckorama has Old Speckled Hen @ £1.99. Highly recommened.
 
I went to a Church Urban Fund meeting this afternoon - article about it on the Brixton Society website.
They were handing out invites to the AGM of "Churches Together in Brixton" on Thursday 21st June @ 6.30 pm
Can't go unfortunately, but I noticed that the secretary was from my old haunt - Brixton Unitarian Church in Effra Road. One page of Brixton Unitarian's website is headed "The Team". They are almost as exhibitionist as me - apart from having a Barrister with many letters after his name as Minister (which is boring) the "Chairman and Administrator" (actually the minister's life-long boyfriend) is billed as "Trapeze Artist & Circus Performer".

Check it!

P.S. - you can see where Arndrea get's it from now perhaps (see thread - Brixton in the Media)
 
Apparently that's not always coming from the venue. I know someone who lives even closer to it than you and they tell me that when it's closed people turn up in cars with megaloud stereos and hang out. Weirdos.

A neighbour has also said it's the church. Noisy bastards
 
have a bicycle? theres free burgers in ruskin park tomorrow if you come by bike between 5 and 8pm as part of bike week...and its paid for by barclays bank!
Bicycles are a menace to pedestrians - both at traffic lights and on the pavement - as I made clear to the 6 members of the public, 6 transport planners and two members of Stockwell Partnership who bothered to show up at last night's "consultation" at the Karibu.
BTW only tea/coffee on offer. NO SANDWICHES!!
Steve- if you are reading this:
NOW ARE BENEFITS ARE BEING CUT OFF AND CAPPED HOW DO YOU EXPECT US TO KEEP UP ALL THIS CONSULTATION WITH NO FOOD?

BTW BTW an email from someone mentioning Urban 75 was read out at my table.
 
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