Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Aug 2015

[CH1]

previously Splash spent a lot on portable WCs (I noticed a lot of men and women pissing in public yesterday) and rubbish cleanup

I spent the day out of Brixton - I don't like crowded environments fuelled by mindless music.
The low point for me was walking home with my mate along Atlantic Road about 10 pm - there was a young white pissser brazenly unloading a Niagaran flood on a pile of rubbish by the British Rail Victoria-bound steps. No attempt to be discreet - more a "fuck-you world" attitude.

I can slightly empathise with a homeless person with nowhere to go doing this - but a "loads of money" type caught short en route to "Eckovision" - yuck.

 

[Rushy]

I spent the day out of Brixton - I don't like crowded environments fuelled by mindless music.
The low point for me was walking home with my mate along Atlantic Road about 10 pm - there was a young white pissser brazenly unloading a Niagaran flood on a pile of rubbish by the British Rail Victoria-bound steps. No attempt to be discreet - more a "fuck-you world" attitude.

I can slightly empathise with a homeless person with nowhere to go doing this - but a "loads of money" type caught short en route to "Eckovision" - yuck.

I don't think making this a race/class issue is a great idea. I've caught two people pissing on my actual doorstep in the past week despite there being a huge public lawn and hedges opposite. Irrelevant that they were both black, one female who laughed and hopped into a waiting BMW leaving me her used wet wipes, one male with a group of late teen/ early twenties lads going home late from Splash: "I piss where I like". Last year I caught an elderlyish Jamaican neighbour pissing against the side of my van. Apparently he "just needed to go". And I caught a white south African tourist pissing in my back garden during Splash last year (his shirt buttons are still there). And two Poles pissing in my neighbour's drive. None of these people represent their social, gender or ethic groups. They are just filthy cunts in their own right. All of whom are quite capable of finding somewhere less disrespectful to piss like an incontinent child. But take the choice not to bother.

 

[Mr Retro]

There is a convenient little cul de sac off the square in Trinity Gardens which was like an open public unisex toilet on Sunday. I don't think any of them were on the way to Eckovision

Rather people were drinking in the square there with the only access to toilets in the Trinity Arms who may have been stopping non customers using the bog. I have a certain amount of sympathy but still fucking disgusting and disrespectful. Then if the residents next year object to Splash they'll be accused of nimbyism.

 

[editor]

There is a convenient little cul de sac off the square in Trinity Gardens which was like an open public unisex toilet on Sunday. I don't think any of them were on the way to Eckovision

Rather people were drinking in the square there with the only access to toilets in the Trinity Arms who may have been stopping non customers using the bog. I have a certain amount of sympathy but still fucking disgusting and disrespectful. Then if the residents next year object to Splash they'll be accused of nimbyism.

Not really sure what Eckovision has got to do with this but there given that Splash is one big street party where people are going to drink all day, the lack of temporary toilets - and the huge crowds - made it inevitable that there was going to be loads of street pissing. It's never nice to have it on your doorstep (or anywhere else for that matter) - where I am, we've suffered it for years, with the increased late boozy activity around the village making it worse.

Come chucking out time in Brixton there's really not a lot of places to go so I can't entirely blame people.

 

[Winot]

Splash by name, splash by nature

 

[Mr Retro]

Not really sure what Eckovision has got to do with this but there given that Splash is one big street party where people are going to drink all day, the lack of temporary toilets - and the huge crowds - made it inevitable that there was going to be loads of street pissing. It's never nice to have it on your doorstep (or anywhere else for that matter) - where I am, we've suffered it for years, with the increased late boozy activity around the village making it worse.

Come chucking out time in Brixton there's really not a lot of places to go so I can't entirely blame people.

I was referring to CH1 post about Eckovision.

Agree with you though, it's a problem the council have ignored. Every Friday and Saturday in Amsterdam the area around the red light and other hotspots is absolutely jam-packed. Loads of removable urinals are brought in on flatbed lorries in the morning Friday and removed again on Monday morning. Problem solved.

 

[T & P]

When was the last time the underground public toilets on Windrush Sq. were open to the public? I don't think I've ever seen them open.

 

[Angellic]

When was the last time the underground public toilets on Windrush Sq. were open to the public? I don't think I've ever seen them open.

I'm surprised it's not yet been turned into a bar or cafe.

 

[Manter]

There is the mysterious pop up toilet that colacubes has under surveillance. Or was it poptyping?

One of you had a brief obsession with it anyway!

 

[colacubes]

There is the mysterious pop up toilet that colacubes has under surveillance. Or was it poptyping?

One of you had a brief obsession with it anyway!

It was me. Current status is not working afaik

 

[Rushy]

I was referring to CH1 post about Eckovision.

Agree with you though, it's a problem the council have ignored. Every Friday and Saturday in Amsterdam the area around the red light and other hotspots is absolutely jam-packed. Loads of removable urinals are brought in on flatbed lorries in the morning Friday and removed again on Monday morning. Problem solved.

Quite often Lambeth agrees to events and makes no requirement to provide toilets. It is not considered a licensing issue. Parks Dept can require toilets if their space is being used but often leave it up to the event organisers.

 

[Rushy]

It was me. Current status is not working afaik

Apparently the new one on Tunstall Road is no longer happening. Residents objected.

 

[editor]

It was me. Current status is not working afaik

It's the wrong kind of pop up.

 

[colacubes]

tbf there was a row of bogs at the end of Electric Lane pretty much outside the train station. There was also a mobile pissoir type thing that was still there on Monday morning so no real excuse for someone to be pissing up against the stairs after Splash.

 

[colacubes]

Apparently the new one on Tunstall Road is no longer happening. Residents objected.

I mean I know they're unsightly but surely preferable to the alternative of people pissing in your front garden

 

[Rushy]

I mean I know they're unsightly but surely preferable to the alternative of people pissing in your front garden

If indeed anyone had a front garden on Tunstall Road. Any way, looks like Bowie will have to keep taking the brunt of it in his face for the foreseeable future!

 

[CH1]

When was the last time the underground public toilets on Windrush Sq. were open to the public? I don't think I've ever seen them open.

Last open to the public in 1986. Closed for the installation of the Linda Bellos era water feature (the one which had soap suds, bath ducks and brew cans in it).

Never re-opened as a public convenience, though it was opened specially to make a short avant garde (BFI?) film about cruising at one point in the 1990s. Not sure of the title, but it was shown in a Lesbian & Gay Film festival at NFT.

 

[BigMoaner]

we have a very modern, massively populated, global leading city but have councils who are fucking inept. i have very close experience with two, croydon and lambeth, and both let down the people time and time again. alot of it is money (especially now the toffs are in), well just charge more council tax then. don't turn our areas into fetid shit holes!

 

[BigMoaner]

When was the last time the underground public toilets on Windrush Sq. were open to the public? I don't think I've ever seen them open.

too much of a faff for the council probably. can't be fucked even actually trying to run something so handy, and pro-social for a community of people.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I was around Windrush & CHL yesterday evening and the pavements did resemble a squat party

 

[CH1]

too much of a faff for the council probably. can't be fucked even actually trying to run something so handy, and pro-social for a community of people.

Actually there was a council policy in 1986 that when a public toilet had to close (maintenance, short of staff etc) it had to stay closed permanently.

This was an effective back-door way of enforcing cuts. At the time they get down from 20 operational loos to only a few in a couple of years. In late 1980s money they reduced the revenue expenditure on public conveniences from £200,000 pa to less than £40,000.

Having achieve such a stupendous saving, can you imagine La Peck putting it into reverse - to relieve our peckers?

 

[Mr Retro]

The work on what was Electric Social continues apace. It seems they have totally gutted the original and are fully redecorating. How much money has been poured into that venue over the years?

 

[Dan U]

Really great article this (imo) that name checks various nights in Brixton. Which isn't why it's great tbh but is why I've posted it here.

http://www.djmag.com/content/special-feature-gay-dna-house-music

 

[CH1]

Trying to pay my council tax (late - again), and got the old:

Error 404 - Page not found

This is because no page exists at the address you specified. If you believe that you have received this page in error please contact the organisation you were attempting to pay with any information that may have caused this error.

Am I just being stupid (I mean even trying)? Will it be back up later? Even reporting the error online seemed sluggish to the point of an ox and cart!

 

[David Clapson]

I'm confused by all the bikers at Splash - there must have been 30 of them wearing this outfit. What does NWB stand for? Why the number 14? Why spell Ride with a Y?

(Note: photo from this excellent set: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/08/brixton-splash-2015-superb-photo-set-by-jerry-tremaine/)

 

[Johnny Doe]

NWB - it's short for newbie. They are bike mounted gentrifiers.

 

[Manter]

I'm confused by all the bikers at Splash - there must have been 30 of them wearing this outfit. What does NWB stand for? Why the number 14? Why spell Ride with a Y?

(Note: photo from this excellent set: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/08/brixton-splash-2015-superb-photo-set-by-jerry-tremaine/)

It's a bike club, their local meetings are in Norwood I think. Think it's north west bikers, but not sure. Often a lot of them around locally.

 

[shygirl]

Can anyone recommend venues for a leaving do in Brixton? It will probably be a late Friday afternoon/evening affair and will need to have a fair amount of space, with a bar and possibly a system for playing music. Not having been out in Brixton on a Friday evening for a long time, I haven't really got a sense of where might be a good venue. I'm thinking of Friday 21 August.

 

[teuchter]

Can anyone recommend venues for a leaving do in Brixton? It will probably be a late Friday afternoon/evening affair and will need to have a fair amount of space, with a bar and possibly a system for playing music. Not having been out in Brixton on a Friday evening for a long time, I haven't really got a sense of where might be a good venue. I'm thinking of Friday 21 August.

Might not fit your preferred days/times, and might not count as "brixton" but Whirled cinema can be hired out and is a nice venue

https://www.whirledcinema.com/hire

 

[CH1]

Can anyone recommend venues for a leaving do in Brixton? It will probably be a late Friday afternoon/evening affair and will need to have a fair amount of space, with a bar and possibly a system for playing music. Not having been out in Brixton on a Friday evening for a long time, I haven't really got a sense of where might be a good venue. I'm thinking of Friday 21 August.

Karibu have a licence (the community centre @ 7 Gresham Rd). You'd have to check if they're booked. Not for a posh leaving do - more traditional Brixton.