Brixton news, rumours and general chat - January 2017

[Gramsci]

... not if you were on any of the four (FOUR ) Viccy-line replacement buses I had to take this morning. OK the bus drivers were not helping matters by abandoning one bus after another without giving any info to passengers - just opening the doors and walking off without explanation, to stand around in groups chatting with each other ... but often getting earfuls of some really nasty abuse (with a xenophobic tinge) ... often from Black or Asian or Biracial Britons. depressing all round.

Jeremy Corbyn and the immigration question - BBC News

The BBC are not helping. A "clamour" from the "public" on immigration. Anyone who supports freedom of movement in EU is out of touch with the majority of public opinion. That's me then.

 

[teuchter]

It's sort of snowing.

 

[editor]

It's very wet, loads of pavements have got mini streams flowing across them and anything that looks vaguely snow-like has transformed into slighter slower falling rain by the time it gets near the ground.

 

[editor]

Some photos from today:

In photos: umbrellas fill the streets as Brixton gets a heavy winter rain shower

 

[BigMoaner]

your a good photographer ed

 

[BigMoaner]

you're

 

[editor]

your a good photographer ed

I appreciate your comments, even if I really don't think I'm that good. At least I managed to capture something of the 'wetness' out there, which was my aim

 

[heinous seamus]

I'm going to be staying in Brixton next month. My partner got a good deal on a premier inn that hadn't been built yet . Unsurprisingly, it still isn't finished, so they've moved us to Brixton!

We will be visiting the market and may go to the Ritzy. Hopefully they'll have a strike on so I can go and show my solidarity

 

[editor]

It's the weekend! Some things going on in and around Brixton...

What’s on in Brixton: bars, gigs and clubs around town, Fri 13th-15th January 2017

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Lambeth has devised something called the “Air Quality Action Plan” and I am going toattend the first “Steering Group” meeting on 11 Jan. Let me know if you have anysuggestions and I will pass them on. Or email: sustainability@lambeth.gov.uk

Thanks urbanspaceman , did you attend the meeting? Are there any more links to what's going on in the AQAP ?

 

[Reiabuzz]

Anyone know where I can get a guitar repaired locally?

It's a steel string acoustic - the action's a bit fucked basically, maybe the tuning heads too.

 

[Mr Retro]

I'm going to be staying in Brixton next month. My partner got a good deal on a premier inn that hadn't been built yet . Unsurprisingly, it still isn't finished, so they've moved us to Brixton!

We will be visiting the market and may go to the Ritzy. Hopefully they'll have a strike on so I can go and show my solidarity

Exact same thing happened to my wife's niece and her friends. They are 18/19. It's most of their first time away on their own and her mother is "you're staying on cold harbour fucking lane!?!?!? You are fucking not!!!" - I'm 18, I can do what I want. yes I am.

 

[GarveyLives]

Surely a Bowie tour would be more appropriate around Beckenham/Bromley, where he actually grew up? There's only the house he was born in in Brixton to connect him to the area.

The year long phenomena seems to be more of a celebration and affirmation of the deceased's ethnicity, rather than of any meaningful connection with Brixton.

 

[editor]

The year long phenomena seems to be more of a celebration and affirmation of the deceased's ethnicity

He was born in Brixton and retained connections to the area so it seems to me that the mix of a focus point (the mural), the (sadly fading) Bohemian nature of the area and the good transport links made the place a rather obvious focus for fans. Where else could they go?

I'm really at a loss what the 'affirmation of the deceased's ethnicity' bit means.

 

[CH1]

The year long phenomena seems to be more of a celebration and affirmation of the deceased's ethnicity, rather than of any meaningful connection with Brixton.

I could have understood it if you had complained about taking the iconic to the point of quasi-deification. But how has the fact that David Bowie (born 8 January 1947) was a white man become a race issue?

I imagine the majority of children born in Brixton in 1947 were white.

The adulation of the late David Bowie is surely partly due to musical excellence and partly due to nostalgia - fans recapturing their earlier days.

Surely you are not suggesting that the Bowie cult is an underground form of the BNP?

 

[OvalhouseDB]

Anyone know where I can get a guitar repaired locally?

It's a steel string acoustic - the action's a bit fucked basically, maybe the tuning heads too.

I can wholly recommend Ross in Peckham. He has a repair workshop in his garden on Choumert Rd, is incredibly experienced, skilled and helpful and charges ridiculously cheap prices. He sometimes plays in Trio Pizzeria in Streatham High Rd. his number is 07870 110130 . Not local, but only a 57 bus ride away. I can't find his website, so I hope he is still there.

Edited to add: the son of Tina from the Night Market also has a guitar repair sideline...I will PM you her number.

 

[cuppa tee]

I Surely you are not suggesting that the Bowie cult is an underground form of the BNP?

.......it wouldn't be the first time, but when someone makes a statement like this.......

"Britain is ready for a fascist leader… ... I believe very strongly in fascism, people have always responded with greater efficiency under a regimental leadership…Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars…You've got to have an extreme right front come up and sweep everything off its feet and tidy everything up.”

.......questions will be asked.

 

[Reiabuzz]

I can wholly recommend Ross in Peckham. He has a repair workshop in his garden on Choumert Rd, is incredibly experienced, skilled and helpful and charges ridiculously cheap prices. He sometimes plays in Trio Pizzeria in Streatham High Rd. his number is 07870 110130 . Not local, but only a 57 bus ride away. I can't find his website, so I hope he is still there.

Edited to add: the son of Tina from the Night Market also has a guitar repair sideline...I will PM you her number.

Cool, thanks. I'll give him a shout It's a nice guitar, just really neglected in recent times.

 

[editor]

.......it wouldn't be the first time, but when someone makes a statement like this.......

.......questions will be asked.

Oh come on. That was a daft comment uttered in the midst of his coke addiction period and something he's distanced himself from multiple times. If you're going to judge him, judge him on the bigger picture and the fact that he's always worked with musicians of all backgrounds - and was married to a Muslim Somalian woman for 24 years. Hardly the bio of a BNP member.

He wasn't perfect, but trying to slur him as some sort of racist really is scraping the barrel.

 

[SpamMisery]

If working with foreigners and being married to one is the bar for proving your non-racist beliefs, then Farage is off the hook. Although to my knowledge he is also not a member of the BNP.

 

[editor]

If working with foreigners and being married to one is the bar for proving your non-racist beliefs, then Farage is off the hook. Although to my knowledge he is also not a member of the BNP.

I don't think many BNP members or full-on racists make a point of working with black artists for decades, neither do they tend to be married to Somalian Muslims, but perhaps you know better.

Not many racists go on tv and say this either:

 

[cuppa tee]

Oh come on. That was a daft comment uttered in the midst of his coke addiction period and something he's distanced himself from multiple times. If you're going to judge him, judge him on the bigger picture and the fact that he's always worked with musicians of all backgrounds - and was married to a Muslim Somalian woman for 24 years. Hardly the bio of a BNP member.

He wasn't perfect, but trying to slur him as some sort of racist really is scraping the barrel.

not sure how mentioning a well documented low point in the thin white dukes career equates to an attempt to slur him, that quote and the fash salute from an open top Mercedes caused quite a stink at the time, so much that the Musicians Union felt the need to issue a statement.....if anything it's proof of the Bowies popularity that his fan base did not completely evaporate.....

 

[Angellic]

Traffic monitoring cables have appeared on Wiltshire Road and Villa Angell Park Gardens.

 

[OvalhouseDB]

Traffic monitoring cables have appeared on Wiltshire Road and Villa Angell Park Gardens.

They are all over the place: Leander Rd, Roupell Rd, Norwood Rd, Athlone Rd, and many others.

 

[Angellic]

They are all over the place: Leander Rd, Roupell Rd, Norwood Rd, Athlone Rd, and many others.

Are they fairly recent as well? Something to do with pollution/air quality perhaps?

 

[se5]

Are they fairly recent as well? Something to do with pollution/air quality perhaps?

Or measuring the effectiveness of the 20 mph limit? Its coming up to a year since it was introduced and so they may want to compare the traffic speed figures they had from before the limit was introduced with the current ones

 

[Reiabuzz]

.......it wouldn't be the first time, but when someone makes a statement like this.......

.......questions will be asked.

Wow, really? I don't think that can be excused by a coke habit tbh. I hope it was taken out of context

 

[Reiabuzz]

I'm struggling to believe he said that as anything other than a wind-up

 

[T & P]

Or measuring the effectiveness of the 20 mph limit? Its coming up to a year since it was introduced and so they may want to compare the traffic speed figures they had from before the limit was introduced with the current ones

I'm not sure they are used to check speed (I guess technically they could be, by measuring the time it takes for the wheel to hit the second cable). AFAIK they are used to measure traffic volume.

There are also quite a few that have appeared on the Tulse Hill area. Perhaps it's all to do with the proposed removal of the Tulse Hill Gyratory, which wuold no doubt create a few headaches as to how best manage the local traffic.

 

[teuchter]

I think they *can* measure speed.