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And Vegas-like weather in Brixton today!
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - July 2014
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
They have a Pinterest location here: http://www.pinterest.com/truthworlds/the-tea-exchange-brixton/
Here's a piece about the (ahem) 'Truth' agency:
The horrible Truth is coming to Brixton Market, a multinational marketing agency dressed up as the ‘concerned’ Tea Exchange
Seems they were surveying people in the May Makers Market outside the Rec. One of their props was this David Lynch antler-style "Tea Exchange Tree of Truth"
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SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Did you intend to write 'policies'?
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hiraethified
Clearly not! Fixed now
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
You are all welcome to this tomorrow.
Four real ales and four ciders in the beer tent! Jerk from Jeff the Chef.
Plus fitness station, street card magic, Morris dancers at 4pm, etc etc
Four real ales and four ciders in the beer tent! Jerk from Jeff the Chef.
Plus fitness station, street card magic, Morris dancers at 4pm, etc etc
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
that looks amazingly well organised.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
We'll see if you are right.
Today got off to a great start when the jerk seller pulled out and my phone, with all the street party details and contacts, packed in.
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
There is only one way to find out - check them out tomorrow.
Their publicity is bizarre (to me) and relentlessly self-promoting.
They helped redesign the Royal Opera House "Putting the public at the heart of architectural re-design to improve participation and engagement"
They sorted out Sainsbury's ready meals "“We worked with Oscar Mayer and Sainsbury’s to create a new healthy ready meals range and rebrand an existing range resulting in a 50% uplift in sales.”
etc etc.
Not sure why they should be discussing BEAUTY tomorrow with Brixton residents in the Market - but there you go.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
The guy in charge I know of vaguely and he has a market research background. So I suspect it's this rather than anything more exciting.
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hiraethified
Do you want to write a little bit for BBuzz and I cold post it up in the morning? Only if you want, mind.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
That's kind - but ain't going to have time ('working' tonight). Will send you some pictures and words afterward.
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hiraethified
I fear I don't have that technology.
thatguyhex
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I would be well up for someone sticking huge palm trees along Brixton Road.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I got asked for ID at the Effra Social at 8pm ish last night, which obviously I don't have any ID (I'm a non driver in my 50s) I've never been asked before, well not since the 1970s.
Fortunately they let me in anyway. They were asking everyone - most people didn't have ID but were allowed in too.
They asked the woman in front of me who was carrying a big suitcase, to look in her bag - to which she replied 'it's full of crack' - which was good enough for them and they let her in. They were very happy and friendly - do they actually ever stop people without ID?
Fortunately they let me in anyway. They were asking everyone - most people didn't have ID but were allowed in too.
They asked the woman in front of me who was carrying a big suitcase, to look in her bag - to which she replied 'it's full of crack' - which was good enough for them and they let her in. They were very happy and friendly - do they actually ever stop people without ID?
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hiraethified
They're awfully concerned that the real views of ordinary people in Brixton may be going unheard and that important subjects aren't being discussed, so out of the goodness of their hearts ("it's a labour of love") they've come to Brixton.
Or just a an exercise to train up the staff of a multinational marketing agency, and to use the views of Brixton residents as market research fodder for their commercial activities.
You decide: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/07/...keting-agency-dressed-up-as-the-tea-exchange/
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I was out round the market around 11.30 and couldn't see them anywhere. Yet they are Tweeting photos of their stall with its polka dot tablecloth.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Sounds like wanky claptrap to me.
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hiraethified
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Imagine the outrage in here if instead of being at the U75-approved Effra Social, this had happened at Off the Cuff...
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Fuck him too and his multinational petit-bourgeois media outlets.
It's a focus group but instead of paying people for their time they give them a drink that costs pennies. Not good but The Guardian will no doubt accept their clients' adverts.
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Possibly. I found them about 1 o'clock and they gave me Earl Grey and two chocolate biscuits while I went on about the demise of pubs to developers and how the market was in the 80s. I asked why they were interested in Brixton - was it because of long-time notoriety, or current fashionability. They said they were looking at another rapidly changing area too - Stratford, but didn't explain further.
I noticed that a guy from the next market stall who had been chatting to them wrote something on a label which he then put on the "Tree of Truth" - which was adorned with other labels. I wasn't asked to do this.
Went past the stall about 2 o'clock with a friend, but they were almost packed up by then. Friend asked what it was about and was told they were "seeing what Brixton was like". Michelle's interpretation of that was they were spying.
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