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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - September 2012

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Cheers for the reviews :)

I will go for a pint and come back with no less than 500 words on the matter for you.
 
I've heard Brew Dog have signed a lease on the old Brixton Cycles site.
More good beer. Although that stretch doesn't really need another bar. Residents and Urbanites successfully prevented it becoming a bar back in the Larry days, before the Real McKoy shop came along.
 
Rubbish - it's the long awaited reclamation of one of our national drinks - which was gradually taken away from us throughout the 70s/80s/90s by massive corporates selling that fcuking piss called lager.

There's no reason it can't be both. Personally I quite like the new expensive real ale pubs springing up but they're clearly gentrifying unless you use the common Urban 75 definition of 'things I don't like done by people I don't know.':p
 
The pace of the gentrification is astounding.

As soon as you have digested news of one thing, another comes along.

Or was it ever thus?
 
Maybe they're expecting a freeing up of properties once all the people on benefits have to move out because they can no longer afford to live somewhere with a roof over their heads :hmm:
 
Rice'n'Spice. Yeah! I was gutted when that closed. Never ate there sober, mind...:D
double portions or more for half price at closing time (deffo not sober)
I dunno. I did walk down there one day, peeked through the door but could not work out if the place was open, being refitted, demolished or I would be dead before I reached the bar.
I'm pretty sure it had one of those travellers notice on the door the first time I walked past (a long time ago to be sure)
 
There's a brand spanking new concrete and glass eco house built in Brixton by a local architect open for viewing as part of London Open House. Well worth a view. It features on Grand Designs this coming Wednesday. Lots of unusual heat recovery shenanigans, if you're into that kind of thing.

Lyham Road, close to the junction with Margate Road. Sat & Sunday 10-5 I think. No booking required.
 
Brixton Fashion Fair this weekend - not sure where it is though. Address is Boutique Emporium, Market House, 443 Coldharbour Lane.
 
Came out the Ritzy about half an hour ago and those Hebrew Israelite guys were giving it some outside KFC. I've never actually stopped to listen to them before, had no idea how vile there message really was. They were ranting on about the tyranny of multiculturalism. It was was getting very very heated and then the guy started having a go at a transvestite and it looked like it was going to get violent. Bloody idiots.

Well, at least it might put off some of the prospective Foxtons customers.
 
Was that the lot with the yellow t-shirts on? We saw a group setting up on the corner when we went past on the bus earlier but didn't see or hear what they were.
 
Came out the Ritzy about half an hour ago and those Hebrew Israelite guys were giving it some outside KFC. I've never actually stopped to listen to them before, had no idea how vile there message really was. They were ranting on about the tyranny of multiculturalism. It was was getting very very heated and then the guy started having a go at a transvestite and it looked like it was going to get violent. Bloody idiots.

Well, at least it might put off some of the prospective Foxtons customers.

Course it won't put off prospective Foxton customers. :rolleyes::D

Would be nice if it did though
 
There's a brand spanking new concrete and glass eco house built in Brixton by a local architect open for viewing as part of London Open House. Well worth a view. It features on Grand Designs this coming Wednesday. Lots of unusual heat recovery shenanigans, if you're into that kind of thing.

Lyham Road, close to the junction with Margate Road. Sat & Sunday 10-5 I think. No booking required.

Someone remind me of this about 10.30 tomorrow morning!
 
worse, our high street is getting less useful, with the loss of a proper shoe shop and a noodle place

There will come a point when estate agents will have to say that the attractions of a locale is that is has lots of estate agents.
 
Was that the lot with the yellow t-shirts on? We saw a group setting up on the corner when we went past on the bus earlier but didn't see or hear what they were.

No, saw them earlier, seemed harmless enough in a happy clappy way. The hebrew isrealites have a bunch of posters on the floor and stand with a mic, one guy ranting and three other guys hollering agreement. Superficially it sounds like he's talking about inequality and racism but when you actually listen for a minute you realise that it's a hateful rant.
 
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