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bimble said:
Tan Tan the old trumpeter for instance, he talked once about how much it does matter to him how the audience responds to the music, how shit it is to play for a crowd who don't have any interest or respect for the music at all and what a difference it makes when they do.
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Anyone not respecting Tan Tan's playing needs beating with a trumpet, not entertaining with it.
 
bimble said:
Doing stupid pissed dancing is one thing but I think the feeling that editor had at 414 is about something else, when people act like complete arseholes towards the seriously talented jazz musicians who are performing right there in the room with them. Shout-talking over them or filming constantly on their phones, or prancing about in a self absorbed way as if it was a disco not live.
Tan Tan the old trumpeter for instance, he talked once about how much it does matter to him how the audience responds to the music, how shit it is to play for a crowd who don't have any interest or respect for the music at all and what a difference it makes when they do.
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These people thought it was all a fucking laugh and that the band were just a novelty backdrop for their self-pleasing antics.

The total lack of respect for the musicians, the venue and the people who were there to enjoy the music was depressing. Thankfully there was plenty of other people there - of all ages - who knew how to respect and appreciate the talent on stage.
 
bimble said:
Doing stupid pissed dancing is one thing but I think the feeling that editor had at 414 is about something else, when people act like complete arseholes towards the seriously talented jazz musicians who are performing right there in the room with them. Shout-talking over them or filming constantly on their phones, or prancing about in a self absorbed way as if it was a disco not live.
Tan Tan the old trumpeter for instance, he talked once about how much it does matter to him how the audience responds to the music, how shit it is to play for a crowd who don't have any interest or respect for the music at all and what a difference it makes when they do.
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I'm not saying that drunk people dancing can't be annoying when you're there to appreciate the music in a more cerebral way. It is however an occupational hazard of going out to a late night event with a bar in central Brixton, and it has been for as long as I've been around. Ten or fifteen years ago I was going to the sunday jazz night at the effra pretty much every week and some drunken dancing alarmingly close to the drum kit was a regular feature. As were, sometimes, overly loud conversations at the tables in the audience area. Exactly the same issues prevail at the Jazz nights in the Crypt in Camberwell. Sometimes it's intensely annoying, and on the other hand sometimes it's nice to be somewhere that isn't so precious that you get tutted at for coughing, as per classical concerts. It's just how it is at less formal venues, always has been, and always will be. Once the 414 has been converted to a branch of Ronnie Scott's, and Brixton's night life has been fully sanitised for polite head-nodding concert-goers only, maybe expectations can be different.
 
Interesting titbit:
A man who was guarding Madiba’s life 21 years ago enlisted the help of 2 Good Samaritans who helped them get away during an evacuation.


Today, he is using Madiba Day and social media to try to find them to thank them personally.

Rory Steyn, a former bodyguard to Nelson Mandela has decided to use this Mandela Day to try find the “young lady and her boyfriend driving a beige Renault 5” who helped get the former President of South Africa to safety.

The incident happened in 1996, in the heart of Brixton, in London. The former President had to be evacuated from a community centre that he’d just opened and Steyn along with 2 other officers stopped a car that was passing by and asked the driver to follow the Presidents vehicle, to make sure that he got to safety.

“21 years ago I was privileged to accompany the great man on his state visit to London. On the only occasion I was ever called upon to do so, we evacuated Madiba from the street outside a community centre that he’d just opened in Brixton.”

“Two colleagues and I commandeered a vehicle in the street so that we could follow the Rolls Royce that the president was in. It was a beige Renault 5 driven by a young lady and her boyfriend.”

Steyn is hoping that the power of social media will carry the story across the globe so that he can personally thank the driver and her boyfriend.

Madiba bodyguard trying to find Samaritans who helped him 21 years ago
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Sunfall, music thingy in Brockwell park, info came though our door.
They are doing some free and some 50% off tickets for residents near the park, if anyone is interested.
 
Has anyone the ability to check on the ownership of a Brixton business? There's potentially an interesting story but I need to work out who owns the property.
 
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Has anyone the ability to check on the ownership of a Brixton business? There's potentially an interesting story but I need to work out who owns the property.
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If its a (British registered) company you can use companies house (free of charge) - and if you have an address the freehold will be registered at the Land Registry (£3)
 
CH1 said:
If its a (British registered) company you can use companies house (free of charge) - and if you have an address the freehold will be registered at the Land Registry (£3)
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I'm trying to work out who owns the property that is being rented by a business. Don't really want to fork out for the privilege though so was hoping someone might have access.
 
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