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Brixton chitter chatter part 1 (Nov 2006-June 2008)

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The Bear on Camberwell New Road is starting a new pub quiz at eight tonight. (Its run by Andy the ex-bar manager from the regent and the old chef from there too).

ETA - there was some tiny piece in one of the crap freesheets yesterday about the transparent cell in Tate Gardens. Moving it out by the afternoon is hardly going to enable their intended audience to see it is it?
 
there was a load of riot police called to josephine avenue yesterday afternoon to restarin a woman wielding a machete. Road was blocked off and everything-apparently no-one was hurt and she was receiving medical attention in the ambulance when I walked past. There were shit-loads of police though.
 
a chorus of angelic children

Walked past my house in crocodile formation this morning, all singing in harmony. Its strangely made my day (well them and the two Pasteis de Nata from the Portuguese deli at the bottom of Atlantic I had for breakfast).

In less interesting news, they've resurfaced some of Atlantic Road, where fish juice seems to corrode the tarmac.
 
tarannau said:
That's a shame. Ju***'s an irritating flake a lot of the time, but he's harmless enough and (allegedly) got a good heart under all the muttering nonsense.

if he was a white man saying all black men were batty men he wouldn't last very long would he though! mental illness or not

always makes me smile though
 
Maybe I missed this, but the Bang Bang/Bar With No Name is now called Tangeir. Not sure of the significance of the (mis)spelling...
 
Popped in the Beach Bar. It looks quite nice but apparently booze prices are so steep they're virtually vertical.
 
ianw said:
Maybe I missed this, but the Bang Bang/Bar With No Name is now called Tangeir. Not sure of the significance of the (mis)spelling...

Is it actually open though? I haven't seen any signs of life in there for weeks.
 
I went past it around 7.30pm on Friday in a minicab, and an advert for the bar came on the radio. So something must be happening...
 
So what closed down Brixton News, then, hmm?
Was it the deleted rumour on this thread? Or something more mundane?

I'm just voicing my curiosity btw - keep anything dodgy under cover, eh. wink wink :)
 
Its not on brixton hill is it? I thought it had taken over from T&G. ie, atlantic rd...

A tenner for a quality well made cocktail is par for the course tho i think. I dont think it was much cheaper there as the T&G.
 
Spark's sister here, she says there's a sign up, saying for sale, pictures from Brixton's most prolific artist, all proceeds to the artist.
 
Proceeds is an ambiguous term. Remeber that next time you go out to a night and it says "all proceeds to charity".
 
i can't remember the exact wording of the sign. it may have said that all the money goes to her, which is pretty unambigous, it may have said proceeds.

I don't thind that the people in the portuguese deli are trying to mislead and exploit her, it seemed to me just a nice thing to do to help her sell more pictures.

anyway, the sign was there on saturday. if people want to check i'm sure they can.
 
Anyone seen the police outside the fridge this afternoon, half a dozen marked cars and vans parked all over the red route, another half dozen uniformed police (not plastics ones i think) a heap of TFL people... all to razz a fare dodger or two.

I've just walked pas there twice, what an horrible intimidating atmosphere they've created, no eye contact, no smile, no sorry we're blocking the pavement but we've just here today... horrible.

It didn't even look a sting to catch criminals/gun/knife carriers who chances are are also fare dodgers. Just looked like support for "revenue protection".
 
There was a ton of Old Bill action inside the Living Bar last night. At least two wagon loads of rozzers steamed in and they were there for some time.

Elsewhere, the rest of the scaffolding's come down off the half finished building on Coldharbour lane, so that means it's royally borked now.
 
...couldn't make it up now if I tried now, was just cycling home up the street behind the ritzy to avoid being on coldharbour lane, and got a blast on the horn from some twat who then drives past me with no inches to spare as fast as he could. No surprise to see a minicab sticker on his back window. I think to myself i bet if anything I'll get done for pavement cycling opposite the fridge and he'll be totally ignored for both horn blasting after 11 and stupid driving.


And what should happen, there are two plastic coppers at the crossing opposite the ritzy!!! I get told "sir don't cycle on the pavement"

thank god they were there to remind me to take the dangerous route around the church and risk my life on a three lane freeway and not take the safe route up an empty pavement.
 
Spotted!

The actress, Elizabeth Berrington, buying her lunch in M&S and then the Portuguese deli over the road.

Made a fewl of myself by doing that smiley hello thing you do to people you sort of recognise, before realising that you don't know them from Adam and they're just that person off the telly.

With that luck, I'm due to knock over James Nesbitt on my way home, with the cry of "you don't shop in Asda, you're always in Mimosa buying posh ham".
 
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