Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[cuppa tee]

Wiki said this: They released their debut album, Champagne Holocaust, in 2013.
Obviously C+F was a seminal moment for them!

from the buzz article...

"....Local anarcho-activist group Yuppies Out have announced a ‘Champagne Holocaust’ street party to coincide with the opening of the wine bar, where they will be offering ‘free Dairylea cheese slices and White Ace cider’ backed by live music coming from the Fat White Family, Meat Raffle and ‘whoever else wants to play."

blimey...a lot of musicians would have took them to court for copyright violation

The singer wrote a book that made it into the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list and has been nominated for the 2023 Penderyn Music Book Prize, while various band members have contributed to several successful recording and touring bands since. AFAIK, the FWF are working on a new album.

...clever guys !

 

[pbsmooth]

It was the name of their first album and offending and provoking people was pretty high on their agenda when they started out, just like a million bands before them.

Yep, reminding myself who they are and as you say all seems very predictable.

 

[cuppa tee]

Drink & drugs

Fat White Family: 'Every one of us had a hard drug or drink problem'

They gained notoriety for their live shows, class war politics and debauchery. Why have the Peckham band swapped it all for health spas and flute solos?

amp.theguardian.com

wait..says there..."health spas and flute solos" ...

 

[Cat Fan]

I'm struggling to think of anything more symbolic of gentrification than a pretentiously named champagne bar opening up in what was a working class market.

I know what you mean, but it's just the words for champagne and cheese written in the French language. It's sad if Brixton can't handle some words written in a foreign language when it's supposed to be a place of tolerance.

It's like the cereal café on brick lane that became a magnet for all those protests. It's not gimmicky small businesses that cause gentrification, it's the capitalist machine and the ever increasing cost of housing.

 

[cuppa tee]

I know what you mean, but it's just the words for champagne and cheese written in the French language. It's sad if Brixton can't handle some words written in a foreign language when it's supposed to be a place of tolerance.

It's like the cereal café on brick lane that became a magnet for all those protests. It's not gimmicky small businesses that cause gentrification, it's the capitalist machine and the ever increasing cost of housing.

...didnt you realise that using fancy foriegn words is an affront to some folks and a lot of people voted brexit to put a stop to it...

 

[editor]

I know what you mean, but it's just the words for champagne and cheese written in the French language. It's sad if Brixton can't handle some words written in a foreign language when it's supposed to be a place of tolerance.

It's not so much about the pretentious use of French. It's a fucking champagne bar.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I know what you mean, but it's just the words for champagne and cheese written in the French language. It's sad if Brixton can't handle some words written in a foreign language when it's supposed to be a place of tolerance.

Yes.. Brixton.. famous for not accepting businesses with foreign names.

Let me introduce you to the shop un homme de paille

 

[DaphneM]

Am I missing something with 'Champagne Holocaust'? Almost seems more offensive than the restaurant name.

It seems odd that some people get more upset about a cheese & wine bar than the holocaust on these boards

 

[Gramsci]

I miss the anarchists. Put the fun back into protest.

Not an anarchist myself. But did not see a problem with a protest against the Champagne and fromage shop.

Sign of the tolerance in Brixton that a protest like that could go ahead.

 

[Gramsci]

And in my time in Brixton Ive been involved in housing issues and planning issues that partially are related to opposing gentrification.

I would say these efforts have largely failed. In case of Rec locals including me saved it. But now concern is that it is getting expensive.

So from those posters here who object to protests like the anarchists one years back be good to see what alternatives they have to going through the usual channels ( what I have done) or having a go at the symptoms of gentrification ( anarchist response)

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

It seems odd that some people get more upset about a cheese & wine bar than the holocaust on these boards

First post deleted

ignore me I have no idea how this has looped

 

[CH1]

wait..says there..."health spas and flute solos" ...

I see from the 2013 Guardian profile they were connected with the New Queens Head in Stockwell Road
"With their provocative stance and uncomfortable lyrics, this ramshackle London band are the antidote to Brixton gentrification"

Not my scene at all - but for anyone wanting to wallow in 1hour 15 minutes of their "ambience" here is a high-quality recording from St Malo by Arte Concerts (warning - the text is all in FRENCH as its a French video channel devoted to the arts)
Free to view

 

[cuppa tee]

I see from the 2013 Guardian profile they were connected with the New Queens Head in Stockwell Road
"With their provocative stance and uncomfortable lyrics, this ramshackle London band are the antidote to Brixton gentrification"

Not my scene at all - but for anyone wanting to wallow in 1hour 15 minutes of their "ambience" here is a high-quality recording from St Malo by Arte Concerts (warning - the text is all in FRENCH as its a French video channel devoted to the arts)
Free to view

musically i thought they were quite good, i see one has just brought out an album of chessy karaoke
cover versions using a casio keyboardd and preset rythms, in an interview he talks about the literal english translation of karaoke ( empty orchestra) ...so good to challenge pretentious use of foriegn tongues. ( cant find a link atm phone playing up.

 

[CH1]

musically i thought they were quite good, i see one has just brought out an album of chessy karaoke
cover versions using a casio keyboardd and preset rythms, in an interview he talks about the literal english translation of karaoke ( empty orchestra) ...so good to challenge pretentious use of foriegn tongues. ( cant find a link atm phone playing up.

Cheesy or Chessy? Could be a Putinesque difference here!

 

[cuppa tee]

Cheesy or Chessy? Could be a Putinesque difference here!

...sorry yamaha not casio

Saul Adamczewski: ‘I think everyone should try being on the dole once’

Saul has made a 10-track album full of karaoke covers. We met up to talk Tory governments, turning 30 and duetting with Peter Andre.

www.huckmag.com

 

[GarveyLives]

On Thursday 6 April 2023, a vigil and rally will be held at Windrush Square in Brixton, to mark five years since the 'Windrush Scandal' was brought to wider public attention beyond those immediately impacted by it:

 

[CH1]

Sorry couldn't find a relevant thread to bump.
Many Peabody tenants in Brixton -they absorbed Solon HA and Family HA years ago.
Nice to know another merger is going ahead

Peabody to scale back development ‘significantly’

Housing association boss says it will reduce short-term build plans in face of inflation as Catalyst merger is finalised

www.building.co.uk

Lord Kerslake is quite bullish here - as well he might.
Nothing like a bit of corporate optimism to counter a four part series on the Radio 4 Today programme about tenant neglect

Why was my neighbour's body not found for two years?

Residents are thinking of suing a housing association after efforts to raise the alarm were ignored.

www.bbc.co.uk

Actually apart from my increasing hatred of being overshadowed by the yet incomplete Peabody super scraper on the Herne Hill Road Higgs Estate site
I was actually both horrified and intrigued by the Radio 4 report on a woman's body undiscovered in a Peabody flat for 2 and a half years.

Had we been in Grenada during the Revolution (see Black Cultural archives exhibition currently on), the state radio station would no doubt have been asking - "Have you checked on your neighbour". I actually heard advice on the radio on what to do if a co-worker gets something in their eye whilst harvesting.

What do Radio 4 highlight? - neighbours are suing Peabody for trauma. They want rehousing and justice!
Whoever once said "It's all about me!"

Edited: spellings

 

[cuppa tee]

CH1 ....a strange postscript to the fat white conversation upthread.
yesterday i was out on a daytrip and saw this is in charity shop for a bargain price. of £10....



a great bargain for budding Scott Walkers planning an album of twisted post modern covers like yer man from the FWW........



looks like an upgrade cos it comes with an on onboard sequencer (calculator ?) and built in speaker for live shows or busking.
( edit...i meant the keyboard but a couple of nice jackets too)

 

[Gramsci]

Sorry couldn't find a relevant thread to bump.
Many Peabody tenants in Brixton -they absorbed Solon HA and Family HA years ago.
Nice to know another merger is going ahead

Peabody to scale back development ‘significantly’

Housing association boss says it will reduce short-term build plans in face of inflation as Catalyst merger is finalised

www.building.co.uk

Lord Kerslake is quite bullish here - as well he might.
Nothing like a bit of corporate optimism to counter a four part series on the Radio 4 Today programme about tenant neglect

Why was my neighbour's body not found for two years?

Residents are thinking of suing a housing association after efforts to raise the alarm were ignored.

www.bbc.co.uk

Actually apart from my increasing hatred of being overshadowed by the yet incomplete Peabody super scraper on the Herne Hill Road Higgs Estate site
I was actually both horrified and intrigued by the Radio 4 report on a woman's body undiscovered in a Peabody flat for 2 and a half years.

Had we been in Grenada during the Revolution (see Black Cultural archives exhibition currently on), the state radio station would no doubt have been asking - "Have you checked on your neighbour". I actually heard advice on the radio on what to do if a co-worker gets something in their eye whilst harvesting.

What do Radio 4 highlight? - neighbours are suing Peabody for trauma. They want rehousing and justice!
Whoever once said "It's all about me!"

Edited: spellings

I heard the Today programme reports.

Underlying issue is how Housing Associations have changed from touchy feely social work type organisations to hard nosed business.

This has led to increasing alienation of their tenants from the management.

Other issue is that this is not new in London.

I saw this years ago

Dreams of a Life (2011) ⭐ 6.8 | Documentary, Biography, Drama

1h 35m | 12A

www.imdb.com

Doc on woman who died alone and forgotten.

Doc maker attempts to reconstruct her life and give it the dignity it lost when dies alone. Shows how a person can lose contacts with others.

Its imo a particular London problem.

London is an international city. Not like the rest of England. Im saying this as someone who came from small town.

You can come here be accepted and live. Downside is that one can live very alone with no one bothering you. So end up isolated.

It is upside and downside of being in large City.

 

[Mr paulee]

Good listen

 

[CH1]

Can't be bothered to bump the Ritzy thread & anyway a few months back the fate of Cineworld was discussed on here,
City AM today had this - indicating that shareholders will be wiped out by the bankruptcy arrangements in the Texas court.
Might as well be Credit Suisse! - but come tho think of it surely it really is the same issue. Cineworld over expanded based on junk bonds
Then interest rates went up. Greed is Good - or so they said.

Cineworld shareholders to be wiped out under new restructuring plan - CityAM

Shares in Cineworld tanked over 30 per cent this morning after the embattled cinema chain revealed that it would be forced to wipe out shareholders as part of its plan to exit bankruptcy. The London-listed firm, which filed for bankruptcy in the US last autumn, said today that it has filed a...

www.cityam.com

 

[chainsawjob]

Brockwell Live: Project Six - free ticket in return for stewarding on the gates. Late May Bank holiday, over 3 days.

Some good acts, Fabio & Grooverider & the Outlook Orchestra, ShyFX.

I've volunteered for these people for years and they look after you. For day festivals you work your shift when the gates open (no more than 8 hr shift), and then you're free to see the headline act in the evening. You pay a deposit (£50) which is refunded fairly promptly after the event once you've completed your shift/shifts (to ensure people don't fail to show). And they give a donation to a charity of your choice (as opposed to other charity stewarding outfits where you just raise money for that one charity). I can't do this one cos I'm already at another festival, but I'd fancy it if I could.

Volunteer At Brockwell Live: Project 6 | Festival Volunteer | My Cause UK

Volunteer at Project 6 Festival in Brockwell Park. Give your time and in return we make a donation to any charity you choose.

mycauseuk.com

 

[Angellic]

Great exhibition with some brilliant and moving work and great views over Brixton. Hoping this is the right forum to post in.

Brixton Exhibition April 2023

The exhibition is now up and running , and a remarkable triumph for all involved. Opening times and events below. Here is an overview of some of the artworks with their messages in the artists' own...

www.hopeintheheart.org

 

[friendofdorothy]

Has anyone mentioned the mile in my shoes installation in Windrush sq yet? Great stories from around the time of the 81 uprising.

 

[editor]

Brixton Buzz is temporarily down due to technical gremlins. Hope to be back in an hour or so. Apologies if you've tried to access the site

 

[Gramsci]

The Advocacy Academy Open House: What's Brixton Saying?

The Advocacy Academy invites you to our Open House event where we'll discuss our Brixton Listening Campaign report and hear your views.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

this looks interesting.

 

[madolesance]

The Advocacy Academy Open House: What's Brixton Saying?

The Advocacy Academy invites you to our Open House event where we'll discuss our Brixton Listening Campaign report and hear your views.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

this looks interesting.

My 17 year old daughter went to volunteer there. She described them as being a bit 'privilege'!

 

[friendofdorothy]

The Advocacy Academy Open House: What's Brixton Saying?

The Advocacy Academy invites you to our Open House event where we'll discuss our Brixton Listening Campaign report and hear your views.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

this looks interesting.

I'm booked to go.

 

[friendofdorothy]

..

 

[friendofdorothy]

My 17 year old daughter went to volunteer there. She described them as being a bit 'privilege'!

No idea what your daughter means by priveledge there, they seem quite ordinary sorts of kids to me, but what do I know. They teach them how to be activists (is that a priveledge?) and I think that is fab, because we just had to muddle through and make it up as we went. Only assume your daughter has not met many really priveledged public school arseholes maybe?