Brixton news, rumours and general chat: Summer 2019
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sparkybird
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Thanks to CH1 and Gramsci for highlighting this program. Just watched it and kept having to pause it so Mr SB and I could discuss it and our shock and disbelief. Hearing the stories of those affected was very moving and quite frankly frightening. I was most surprised* by the fact that govt documents demonstrated that the initial Windrushers were not welcome, and ideas to send them elsewhere were considered. I'd always been lead to believe that they came at UK request to help rebuild Britain and fill job vacancies after the war.
Every one should watch this program
* ETA actually I should not have been surprised at all really. How depressing
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theboris
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It suffered from being overplayed for years and be associated with embarrassing relatives dancing to it at weddings, but in recent times I can enjoy it again. Still it's not as good as Geno
theboris
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You've got to watch this too: BBC Two - Back in Time for Brixton
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Gramsci theboris sparkybird
I've just spend somewhat longer than 3 hours watching these programmes on my stuttering PlusNet non-fibre connection.
BBC Two - Who Should Get to Stay in the UK? - Episode guide
Bit of a sorry tale there - "Who Should Get to Stay in the UK?" parts 1-3
Actually you won't get the first episode it's just expired (I had noted it was last day in the Radio Times).
This series is a "fly on the wall" documentary about several people, and couples, where immigration procedures suddenly became a problem.
Episode one was the most extraordinary - One of the people was a gay Trinidadian who said he had been having a relationship with the Cheif Justice of Trinidad, who had in turn arranged for a hit man to kill him.
Of course this is normal in the UK (thinking of Norman Scott and Jeremy Thorpe).
Anyhow the applicant for asylum - although refuse asylum going through an application with an immigration layer turned in desperation to Peter Tatchell and eventually got a 5 year leave to remain on humanitarian grounds.
None of the rest of the programmes had anything as sensational as that. There was the married couple - he English and she Egyptian - who had lived together for 25 years as a married couple and had kids. They had worked in various Middle East countries and when they came home to Britain so to speak found that the Egyptian wife had the wring kind of VISA. She had applied to for a married person's visit visa so got sent packing back to Egypt (with her two daughters) leaving the husband at work in UK. She had to wait six montsh and apply for a settlement visa to join er husband in uk (which she got) not doubt having spent £1000+ to get it.
There was an English man of 50+ who had formed a friendship with a football-mad Ugandan woman of about 25. They got the most lenient treatment actually. He had to make special wedding arrangements in Hudddersfield, they married and eventually she got permanent leave to remain (not citizenship).
There were a couple of Windrush type cases. One Jamaican woman who did not have the documentation required - and consequently this also affect her two daughters. Her lawyer eventually proved using House of Commons library data that when the woman (as a 12 year old girl) had come into UK from Jamaica she qualified for indefinite leave to remain.
Cases like this still leave people having to pay £1000 for a certificate of leave to remain, £150 for an English language test, then a further £1000 for citizenship.
It was made pretty clear in this episode (no 2) that leave to remain and citizenship is a Home Office cash cow - they are brazenly using it to shake down applicants and make money out of them.
I could go on. Watch if you dare!
If anyone is interested in the curious case of Trinidad Chief Justice Ivor Archie and his estranged lover Dillian Johnson, the Guardian covers some of it here
Trinidad judge loses bid to halt legal inquiry into his private life
I've just spend somewhat longer than 3 hours watching these programmes on my stuttering PlusNet non-fibre connection.
BBC Two - Who Should Get to Stay in the UK? - Episode guide
Bit of a sorry tale there - "Who Should Get to Stay in the UK?" parts 1-3
Actually you won't get the first episode it's just expired (I had noted it was last day in the Radio Times).
This series is a "fly on the wall" documentary about several people, and couples, where immigration procedures suddenly became a problem.
Episode one was the most extraordinary - One of the people was a gay Trinidadian who said he had been having a relationship with the Cheif Justice of Trinidad, who had in turn arranged for a hit man to kill him.
Of course this is normal in the UK (thinking of Norman Scott and Jeremy Thorpe).
Anyhow the applicant for asylum - although refuse asylum going through an application with an immigration layer turned in desperation to Peter Tatchell and eventually got a 5 year leave to remain on humanitarian grounds.
None of the rest of the programmes had anything as sensational as that. There was the married couple - he English and she Egyptian - who had lived together for 25 years as a married couple and had kids. They had worked in various Middle East countries and when they came home to Britain so to speak found that the Egyptian wife had the wring kind of VISA. She had applied to for a married person's visit visa so got sent packing back to Egypt (with her two daughters) leaving the husband at work in UK. She had to wait six montsh and apply for a settlement visa to join er husband in uk (which she got) not doubt having spent £1000+ to get it.
There was an English man of 50+ who had formed a friendship with a football-mad Ugandan woman of about 25. They got the most lenient treatment actually. He had to make special wedding arrangements in Hudddersfield, they married and eventually she got permanent leave to remain (not citizenship).
There were a couple of Windrush type cases. One Jamaican woman who did not have the documentation required - and consequently this also affect her two daughters. Her lawyer eventually proved using House of Commons library data that when the woman (as a 12 year old girl) had come into UK from Jamaica she qualified for indefinite leave to remain.
Cases like this still leave people having to pay £1000 for a certificate of leave to remain, £150 for an English language test, then a further £1000 for citizenship.
It was made pretty clear in this episode (no 2) that leave to remain and citizenship is a Home Office cash cow - they are brazenly using it to shake down applicants and make money out of them.
I could go on. Watch if you dare!
If anyone is interested in the curious case of Trinidad Chief Justice Ivor Archie and his estranged lover Dillian Johnson, the Guardian covers some of it here
Trinidad judge loses bid to halt legal inquiry into his private life
sparkybird
ask the bird...
Thanks CH1 . Will definitely check those programs out! These cases sound all too familiar..I have a Turkish friend, married to a British guy and the last few years have been a nightmare for him and they've had to fight tooth and nail and spend ££££ to avoid him being deported. During that time he was unable to leave the UK to see his family or to travel for important events related to his work. Makes me feel sick to my stomach how this country can treat people like this.
CH1
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Equality in Name Only it could be said.
Recycled from last year - Make it a half: £22.50 pint of Speedway Stout is Britain’s most expensive
This story is recycled every year
This is the 2017 version A London pub is selling a £13.40 pint
This is the 2016 version Is this the most expensive pint of beer in the UK?
It’s a trick to generate free pr for the good pub guide, don’t fall for it
cuppa tee
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This has been troubling me, even in this day and age such petulance seems over the top.
is there any chance said gentleman was leaving anyway due to the musical fromage overload
and his "request"was more intended as a cutting comment on the music in general before he fled the building ?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Such petulance is quite common place when I DJ out.
You think this chap was just making some kind of ironic protest? A statement of mockery?
If so, what did he achieve?
editor
hiraethified
Nope. We hadn't got into anything even slightly cheesey at his point and he got into a huff because we wouldn't pay the song he demanded.
Besides, I'd argue that we don't play cheese anyway, but fucking brilliant pop songs - and ultimately the true judge of whether we're doing our job well or not is is the audience, and on that score, I rest my case, m'lud:
In photos: Friday night party at the Effra Social, Brixton, 12th July 2019
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hiraethified
It's a pretty weird explanation he's dreamt up there. And, as you say, this kind of behaviour is quite common with some people getting stroppy/angry/petulant/aggressive when we won't play their song.
One seriously cocked up guy in one local venue first threatened to kill me before gesturing that he was going to pour his pint on the mixer when I told him I didn't have the (fucking shit) Bruno Mars song he wanted and I didn't think his second choice of Call Me A Yardie was going to go down with the jam-packed dance floor dancing to Motown and Soul. "Maybe later" I said before he went off on one.
But I'm usually polite with requests, even when someone has demanded an appalling Ed Sheeran ballad at midnight, and I'll suggest that they could perhaps think of some alternatives for us to play (and hope that the law of averages starts to play out).
One thing: never, ever let them know that any device on your person has an internet connection or they'll ask you to download some song or - worst of all - hand you their phone and insist you plug it in to play their amazeballs song.
Yeah, right.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
As it happens I walked past the Craft Beer Leather Lane pub this afternoon - it was closed. But the Hatton Garden area is obviously very much a hipster and/or wealthy ultra gentrified hangout.
Craft beer generally charge in proportion to the alcoholic content.
Try this for the Duke of Edinburgh which charges 5.6 for Brixton Atlantic 5.4% abv.
Duke on Edinburgh - on this basic would charge 12.5 for Speedway Stout if it was local.
Speedway is imported from the USA (is there an EU import duty on this?)
If I was in need of a more genteel crowd than the rugby jocks at the Duke of Edninburgh, and I was in Leather Lane I might find 22.5 OK. And maybe the Craft company sells beer for the same prices at all their outlets?
Not justifying - merely trying to get inside the mind of the Craft Beer chain and its customers - assuming they think about these things.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Hatton Garden is pretty mixed actually. The Leather Lane market is definite *not* gentrified - lots of stalls selling cheap clothing and household goods. And plenty of cheap food outlets. There are a few hipster coffee shops, and midweek there are lots of pop up food stalls to serve the office workers. Hatton Garden itself is still dominated by the jewellery trade of course.
The Craft pub was the first of their small chain I think. It replaced the Clock, which was tired and struggled to attract customers.
CH1
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They would be in the Beehive
CH1
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I ought to have a look round when things are open then.
I was just passing through yesterday en route from Farringdon to Conway Hall. Thameslink is so gentille compared to the tube travelling from LJ to Red Lion Square.
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hiraethified
So you're OK with a half pint costing you £11.25? It's not like the surroundings of the 'pub' are particularly sumptuous either.
CH1
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Half a pint of wine costs £12 in the bar at the Royal Albert Hall. Though obviously this is just for showing of your pearls in the interval before the Rite of Spring.
CH1
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I'd be there like a shot - if the rail fair wasn't so extortionate.
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hiraethified
CH1
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Maybe this might help someone now Stuart the Watchman has retired.
My Sekonda wristwatch stopped yesterday. Although I checked the Youtube videos on how to change the battery I lacked confidence.
Timpsons keep coming up on the net as people who do battery changes - though the one in Sainsbury Dog Kennel Hill is apparently nearest to Brixton. There is also a chap under platform 7 at Vauxhall station who specialises in minor watch repairs.
To cut a long story short I went to the watch/jewellery outlet in the Villaage - opposite Market Row. No-one on the counter but I was called across to the cigarette paper/vaping outlet opposite (I think they are all part of the same enterprise).
The vendor flipped off the back of my watch with a penknife - selected the right battery from tubes of lithium cells - then pushed the watch back back on. When several "pops" of the watch back failed to fully secure it, he whipped out a little vice, with replaceable plastic watch-sized jaws and gave it the full monty.
That was £5 which seemed reasonable - provided his vice has done the trick. I reckon if I tried it myself I'd have ended up having to buy a vice.
My Sekonda wristwatch stopped yesterday. Although I checked the Youtube videos on how to change the battery I lacked confidence.
Timpsons keep coming up on the net as people who do battery changes - though the one in Sainsbury Dog Kennel Hill is apparently nearest to Brixton. There is also a chap under platform 7 at Vauxhall station who specialises in minor watch repairs.
To cut a long story short I went to the watch/jewellery outlet in the Villaage - opposite Market Row. No-one on the counter but I was called across to the cigarette paper/vaping outlet opposite (I think they are all part of the same enterprise).
The vendor flipped off the back of my watch with a penknife - selected the right battery from tubes of lithium cells - then pushed the watch back back on. When several "pops" of the watch back failed to fully secure it, he whipped out a little vice, with replaceable plastic watch-sized jaws and gave it the full monty.
That was £5 which seemed reasonable - provided his vice has done the trick. I reckon if I tried it myself I'd have ended up having to buy a vice.
theboris
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If you can forgive the Timpson family for having one of their members - briefly - as Tory MP for Crewe, they do a lot of good work in training and then employing prisoners: 'The support never stops' – former prisoner working for Timpson
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