Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2015

[editor]

It's online here:
http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/greater-london/spotlight-brixton-property-area-guide

The area attracts
Brixton is now a popular area with young professionals working in the West End or City, many of whom, according to estate agent Ani Alia from the local branch of Foxtons, are buying their first home with help from their parents...

Alia says people are moving over from Clapham, but also from areas such as Islington and Shoreditch to experience a different neighbourhood.

Sigh.

 

[editor]

And elsewhere: More Brixton evictions coming up, with 26 properties served notice by tight-lipped landlord

 

[han]

are you saying to get in the tube people queue from the Ritzy?

Yep!!

 

[han]

http://www.cityam.com/210245/commut...minute-queues-just-enter-brixton-tube-station

 

[cuppa tee]

I think it is time for a brief musical interlude which is topical but not strictly Brixton and it ought to become a tradition on this often difficult thread

OK this has a connection to your steam room scenario and a composition by another Brixton resident of note....

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

OK this has a connection to your steam room scenario and a composition by another Brixton resident of note....

That was a cracking tune

 

[Maharani]

I've seen quite a few people scootering along the pavement to work as well recently. Including smart officey type women in heels! [emoji3]

Grown ups on kids' scooters = a nono

 

[editor]

If anyone fancies it tonight:

http://www.urban75.org/offline/bowie-night-brixton-feb-2015.html

 

[Smick]

If the queue stretches to the Ritzy, does it not block CHL? And people could join the queue when people are waiting to cross the road.

I thought it would curl round to the old Joy instead.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I've never seen the queue that bad. LU says they have staff assisting - few and far between and not consistent! The man at the bottom of the escalators was very enthusiastic and efficient this morning though and it seemed to make a difference

 

[Crispy]

Some of those tweets are really annoying. You think there's a better way to replace all the escalators at one of the busiest stations on the line? Why don't you write to TfL and share your genius, you entitled cunt.

Or ride a bike and laugh

 

[han]

Grown ups on kids' scooters = a nono

I do think they look fun, but I was actually joking about getting one.

Grownups on skateboards is worse though.

 

[Greebo]

Grownups on skateboards is worse though.

What do you think of people using the one wheeled segway things? I saw one being used on the road in Brixton a few months ago.

 

[han]

I think they're tragic.

 

[Greebo]

I think they're tragic.

The price certainly is, for the same money (several hundred pounds), you could get a really good bike.

 

[han]

The price certainly is, for the same money (several hundred pounds), you could get a really good bike.

Yes, and bikes are lots more fun. Better to USE your legs if you're fortunate enough to have a working pair, imo.

 

[simonSW2]

 

[simonSW2]

Work is going on inside the old Joy on CHL. This tribute to Olive Morris can be seen from the street among other bits of graffiti by the squatters last year.

Soon to be a tepid, beige hotel lobby.

 

[editor]

The hotel will fit in well with the new tepid, beige Brixton.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Some of those tweets are really annoying. You think there's a better way to replace all the escalators at one of the busiest stations on the line? Why don't you write to TfL and share your genius, you entitled cunt.

Or ride a bike and laugh

I think LU could do a much better job of explaining why its going to take so long to us non engineer/escalator experts. over 6 months of disruption every day is very frustrating to travellers who pay a lot of money to use the underground.

 

[ibilly99]

He lives in Streatham Vale now. Used to live two doors down from us on the Brixton/Herne Hill borders. I used to be a fan, but not so much now after the stories I have heard from the neighbours (he moved shortly before we lived here, so more than ten years ago).

Had a mate who lived in Mayall Road and used to see him quite often. Loved the Black Bag in the early days of C4 when C4 was far out radical. Great days. And here he is coming out of his house there at the start of this prog.

 

[editor]

If there's anyone left who isn't already thoroughly fucking bored with pop-up burger bars appearing in Brixton, Cheeky Burger are in the Villaaaage tonight.
http://cheekyburgercompany.com/#

 

[OvalhouseDB]

http://www.cityam.com/210245/commut...minute-queues-just-enter-brixton-tube-station

But surely these queues are more than one escalator's-worth of people?
I joined the queue at Boots the other morning and it did move quite steadily.

 

[cuppa tee]

If there's anyone left who isn't already thoroughly fucking bored with pop-up burger bars appearing in Brixton, Cheeky Burger are in the Villaaaage tonight.
http://cheekyburgercompany.com/#

this bubble might be about to go pop because one foodie tastemaker has declared gourmet burgers to be over

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2015/02/24/giles-coren-how-fussy-can-you-be-about-a-burger/

e2a the above might be irony

 

[gaijingirl]

I do think they look fun, but I was actually joking about getting one.

Grownups on skateboards is worse though.

adults can't ride kids' scooters, because they break.. they're actually adult scooters - or at least much older kids' scooters. Some guy at my youngest's nursery has a motorised one - which tbf.. looks a shit load of fun. But yeah, the small kiddy ones can't take adult weight. I've been so tempted so many times..

 

[Maharani]

If anyone fancies it tonight:

http://www.urban75.org/offline/bowie-night-brixton-feb-2015.html

Buggery, I would have loved to have come. Anything fun on tonight?

 

[Maharani]

adults can't ride kids' scooters, because they break.. they're actually adult scooters - or at least much older kids' scooters. Some guy at my youngest's nursery has a motorised one - which tbf.. looks a shit load of fun. But yeah, the small kiddy ones can't take adult weight. I've been so tempted so many times..

I know, I just think adults look silly on these types of scooters. It's probably just me but I can't let it go. I'm also not great with fully grown humans on skateboards. There's a man that uses this as his mode of transport when dropping his kids off at school and he just looks daft.

 

[Mr Retro]

If there's anyone left who isn't already thoroughly fucking bored with pop-up burger bars appearing in Brixton, Cheeky Burger are in the Villaaaage tonight.
http://cheekyburgercompany.com/#

That Boom Burger place on Station Road seems to be held up. I pass a few times a week and nothing is happening there at all. Post is building up on the mat and it been about 80% finished for weeks now. I wonder if they decided to cut and run given they could possibly be across the road from a building site soon?

 

[Maharani]

this bubble might be about to go pop because one foodie tastemaker has declared gourmet burgers to be over

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2015/02/24/giles-coren-how-fussy-can-you-be-about-a-burger/

e2a the above might be irony

That's funny!

 

[Maharani]

That Boom Burger place on Station Road seems to be held up. I pass a few times a week and nothing is happening there at all. Post is building up on the mat and it been about 80% finished for weeks now. I wonder if they decided to cut and run given they could possibly be across the road from a building site soon?

Nanker told me something about this and I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I think there was an issue with the booze licence. I'll confirm and get back on this.