Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Aug 2015
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
A place for quick-liming the bodies of Nu-Brixtonites?
Probably a bar selling lime-based cocktails.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Is the bloody broadband back up yet? I have had to leave town rather than live without Internet access.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Manter
Lunch Mob
Yes. And they 'apologise for any inconvenience'
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Oh great. I need compensation for the hours of anguish I endured!
buscador
culturally dominant
Referring back to last month's thread (which I don't seem able to quote from), friendofdorothy and I were also in the Conq (pig's bedroom area) on Friday night (as we often are.) Say hello next time you're in there.
However, no, Croydon is not the answer. Doesn't matter what the question is....
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hiraethified
Oops! That will teach me for not paying attention
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I'd forgotten about flares, you're probably right.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I used to be able to reduce one of my uncles to silence with the words "what do you know, you wore velvet loons! With embroidery panels!".
I bet he wished he'd burned all the copies of that particular photo.
Angellic
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David Clapson
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Some strange Police bollocks in the papers all of a sudden. Police arrested people planning to 'disrupt' the Splash. But the Police had no intelligence that the people they arrested were planning to go to the Splash. But they arrested them anyway to deter anyone else who may or may not have been thinking of disrupting Splash:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...o-disrupt-south-london-festival-10433342.html
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/...ixton-Splash/story-27535069-detail/story.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...o-disrupt-south-london-festival-10433342.html
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/...ixton-Splash/story-27535069-detail/story.html
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
Standard reporting a rape in Brixton at the weekend:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...luded-area-and-raped-in-brixton-10435762.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...luded-area-and-raped-in-brixton-10435762.html
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Really depressed (but nor really surprised) today by how much of the ES and Twitter 'coverage' of Splash is about the "mounds of STINKING rubbish" left behind, "the aftermath", etc. I guess they're depressed that there aren't any "good" (bad) crime stories to report about it.
Nobody loves reeking refuse or the smell of old wee - I don't either - and I guess Lambeth and Splash together could have done a better job of the tidy up - but I get a really strong feeling that Splash is being singled out here, with a not-so-subtle subtext of 'look at all those dirty black people, with their dirty habits, they're animals' etc etc. If you get thousands of people together for a day's partying there is going to be a massive litter problem afterwards, isn't there? But this year coverage of Glastonbury focused only on sneering at Kanye West ...
Also I dare say the rubbish at Notting Hill Carnival or Bestival or the Regents Park Food Fair isn't so fragrant either.
Nobody loves reeking refuse or the smell of old wee - I don't either - and I guess Lambeth and Splash together could have done a better job of the tidy up - but I get a really strong feeling that Splash is being singled out here, with a not-so-subtle subtext of 'look at all those dirty black people, with their dirty habits, they're animals' etc etc. If you get thousands of people together for a day's partying there is going to be a massive litter problem afterwards, isn't there? But this year coverage of Glastonbury focused only on sneering at Kanye West ...
Also I dare say the rubbish at Notting Hill Carnival or Bestival or the Regents Park Food Fair isn't so fragrant either.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Isn't that traditional after every big event? Papers are full of 'how disgusting' articles after Glastonbury for example- I've just googled and every result on the first page for most recent news was about the rubbish afterwards
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
of course reporting about the rubbish is 'traditional' but it's not usually the PREDOMINANT theme - usually there's at least a bit as well about the acts that played, the general atmosphere, the attendance figures, some mudslinging about who's skimming off the profits - at other events. Perhaps I am just too sensitive about it but I got a funny feeling from what I saw online today - it just didn't match what I saw/heard/felt at the event.
(have to admit tho, the stairs into the tube were minging this morning - caked with some sort of charcoal-grey gunge which was unpleasantly sticky. ugh. but that's no reason not to have a Brixton Splash!)
(have to admit tho, the stairs into the tube were minging this morning - caked with some sort of charcoal-grey gunge which was unpleasantly sticky. ugh. but that's no reason not to have a Brixton Splash!)
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
could be linked to the brockwell park rape. Horrible.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Shit that's very near where I live and I saw some cops there yesterday morning. I wondered what had happened. Horrible.
Big crash in middle of junction of Brixton/Stockwell/Gresham Roads, car smashed into a fire engine. Fortunately, the car driver is alive and has just been cut out of the car and is now in an ambulance. It happened at 5.30ish apparently, so they obviously spent a long time getting him out. Hope he makes a quick recovery.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
plus ça change...
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Thought they'd made two arrests for the BP rape?
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Sorry, there were two suspects in the rape that happened in May and they were 'described as white'. No arrests as far as I can see from the net.
urbanspaceman
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I was talking to someone who used to be involved with Splash, but who was eased out during the Lee Jasper insurgency.
She told me that previously Splash spent a lot on portable WCs (I noticed a lot of men and women pissing in public yesterday) and rubbish cleanup. Also Splash used to arrange a children's area, art exhibits, non-food stalls selling this and that, a multiplicity of food stalls, and some cultural diversity in the type of music played.
I had a long walk around yesterday, and found Splash paradoxical - more people than ever attended, but it seemed to be rather threadbare and narrow: multiple (but not enough) jerk chicken BBQs, the same type of (mostly ragga ?) music from each sound system.
She told me that previously Splash spent a lot on portable WCs (I noticed a lot of men and women pissing in public yesterday) and rubbish cleanup. Also Splash used to arrange a children's area, art exhibits, non-food stalls selling this and that, a multiplicity of food stalls, and some cultural diversity in the type of music played.
I had a long walk around yesterday, and found Splash paradoxical - more people than ever attended, but it seemed to be rather threadbare and narrow: multiple (but not enough) jerk chicken BBQs, the same type of (mostly ragga ?) music from each sound system.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Yep. I was wholly unimpressed. Managed an hour - almost. Lacked any imagination or creativity. And it has become horribly narrow. Fine if that's what you like music wise. Certainly not something for everyone or embracing diversity as it claims.
CH1
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