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blameless77 said:
I’m not saying I agree with it. I’ve had to use it once ever in Brixton. Don’t quite get why people are making out a photo id requirement is quite so prevalent?
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On the weekend in Brixton, almost every single venue may ask you to present photo ID.
 
Had ID checked on the door at Effra Social last night, between 8 and 9 I think. It was just a visual check - not scanned or anything I'm regrettably very clearly over 18 - so I'm not sure what the purpose is? My friend didn't have any ID but they let him in anyway, telling him sternly to remember next time. Seems rather pointless unless security have memorised a list of names of excluded folk!

Nice crowd in there.
 
Rushy said:
Had ID checked on the door at Effra Social last night, between 8 and 9 I think. It was just a visual check - not scanned or anything I'm regrettably very clearly over 18 - so I'm not sure what the purpose is? My friend didn't have any ID but they let him in anyway, telling him sternly to remember next time. Seems rather pointless unless security have memorised a list of names of excluded folk!

Nice crowd in there.
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Perhaps they do it for identification purposes in case of an incident. For instance if there is a fight or an assault inside and the cctv has captured an image of the offender... Not that agree with it though.
 
blameless77 said:
I keep a scan of my passport in my phone, which means I don’t have to carry it around with me (don’t have a driving licence). Friendofdorothy- surely that could work for you?
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No I don't have a smart phone, my phone has no touch screen, no camera, no internet, no photos, not even emojis. I haven't had to prove my age for 35 years, but the age of my phone alone makes young people laugh.

I'm not sure if brixtons door nazis would accept a phone pic anyway, well not the ones who insist on scanning.
 
I can't remember the last time I was ID'd in London, let alone Brixton. But then I'm now in that phase of life where I settle in at a pub early and don't stay out till 2-3
 
blameless77 said:
I keep a scan of my passport in my phone, which means I don’t have to carry it around with me (don’t have a driving licence). Friendofdorothy- surely that could work for you?
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I don't think it would in most places especially if you look around minimum drinking age. I've seen some very convincing photoshopped passport pics on phones.
 
BusLanes said:
I can't remember the last time I was ID'd in London, let alone Brixton. But then I'm now in that phase of life where I settle in at a pub early and don't stay out till 2-3
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Hey I'm trying to grow old disgracefully here...

the last time I was asked my age was 1982...
 
friendofdorothy said:
No I don't have a smart phone, my phone has no touch screen, no camera, no internet, no photos, not even emojis. I haven't had to prove my age for 35 years, but the age of my phone alone makes young people laugh.

I'm not sure if brixtons door nazis would accept a phone pic anyway, well not the ones who insist on scanning.
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I know that some do accept phone scans. I'll ask around the next time I'm out and about. One thing: most of the bars/clubs don't ask for ID until after 9pm/10pm. At the Effra Social it's usually after 9pm (when the security come on shift) and it's 10pm at the Dogstar, so if you're already in there, you're fine. Same applies at Hootananny.
 
Maybe of interest to someone:

Could lucky Brixton make it two in a row in national Christmas TV competition?

Schools could have their Christmas play televised to the nation & work with TV’s Stephen Mulhern

Primary schools in Brixton and South London are being invited to enter their Christmas play into Virgin Media’s national TV competition, to repeat the success the capital had last year.

In 2018, Corpus Christi Primary School reached the final of the Christmas Stars competition, which is again giving schools the opportunity to have their festive play televised to the nation this Christmas.
The school received £100 for being a runner up with their rhyming nativity play which boasted a huge cast of 115 children, including 24 narrators, three Marys and three Josephs.

Brixton and South London’s primary schools now have the chance to continue the capital’s success in 2019’s competition, and they could scoop the top prize and have their Christmas production being made available, via On-Demand, to four million Virgin TV customers over the festive season.

As part of the money-can’t-buy prize, the winning school will work with TV presenter, Stephen Mulhern, who will join the children live on stage and narrate their play in a one-off performance.

Schools can enter the competition via www.virginmedia.com/christmas and submit either an original play or one of the fantastic festive tales available from Out of the Ark, one of the UK’s biggest retailers of plays and music for schools. The competition closes on Tuesday 19 November 2019.
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£100 runner up prize. Whoop-de-doo.
 
This well worth a visit to see some proper old school Brixton stuff

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Take a free virtual reality tour of Brixton with the Coldharbour Project, Fri 15th – Sun 17th Nov 2019
 
I happened to meet Solomon today, the guy who runs the Brixton Soup Kitchen. He told me to spread the word that they will be open for Christmas Day and that they have some project going on with Argos to provide xmas presents for people.

I can't see anything about that on their website yet. If theres anything about it on social media can you please share it here for us dinosaurs.
 
friendofdorothy said:
I happened to meet Solomon today, the guy who runs the Brixton Soup Kitchen. He told me to spread the word that they will be open for Christmas Day and that they have some project going on with Argos to provide xmas presents for people.

I can't see anything about that on their website yet. If theres anything about it on social media can you please share it here for us dinosaurs.
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Hopefully he'll mail it to me and I'll run a feature on Buzz...
 
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