Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

[Rushy]

I got a routemaster one for about £40 on ebay... the trick, according to a mate (and it seems to work) is to look for misspelled or inaccurate listings. Apparently ebay have changed their process now to avoid so many spelling errors (it autocompletes and asks you if you really mean x) which is a shame as its where I found all my best stuff.

Root master?

 

[Manter]

Root master?

This seller didn't get as far as that- bus Blind Londin iirc. You have to trawl through a lot of crap, but you find treasure!

 

[Gramsci]

I'm all for a bit of a laugh and a street party, but seriously does anyone (or rather, should anyone) give a flying fuck if a new business in a market already full of joints offering food and drink is going to be selling champagne? I mean... really???

I'm infinitely more bothered by the myriad of chain corporations selling mobile phones, clothes and groceries, the loan shark shops and the appalling junk food outlets, whether independent or franchises that comprise the overwhelming majority of shops in Brixton than I'm ever going to be by a small business offering a drink that happens to be associated with rich folk. Good fucking luck to them as far as I'm concerned.

*awaits the storm*

I bumped into Hatboy a while back. It was him that was main person who spent a lot of time and energy getting the covered market listed.

He has left Brixton now. It upsets him that Brixton Village has ended up the way it has.

It was not for this that he put in all that work to get it listed.

 

[el-ahrairah]

trouble is, we should all know better. if working class people make anything nice it gets taken by the middle and upper classes. the only way we can keep what we got is by making it too shit, ugly, or dull for the middle and upper classes to want it. and that's cutting off your nose etc. poor hatboy, i feel for him. he worked hard for brixton's people when he was able to and had all his work taken by capitalists.

sometimes working class community organisation is for mugs. you're just giving your labour away so that rich fucks can profit.

 

[gaijingirl]

I bumped into Hatboy a while back. It was him that was main person who spent a lot of time and energy getting the covered market listed.

He has left Brixton now. It upsets him that Brixton Village has ended up the way it has.

It was not for this that he put in all that work to get it listed.

that's rather sad tbh...

 

[oryx]

trouble is, we should all know better. if working class people make anything nice it gets taken by the middle and upper classes. the only way we can keep what we got is by making it too shit, ugly, or dull for the middle and upper classes to want it. and that's cutting off your nose etc. poor hatboy, i feel for him. he worked hard for brixton's people when he was able to and had all his work taken by capitalists.

sometimes working class community organisation is for mugs. you're just giving your labour away so that rich fucks can profit.

I know what you mean. Even 'community spirit' is being repackaged by the middle class and sold back to ordinary people.

 

[rutabowa]

trouble is, we should all know better. if working class people make anything nice it gets taken by the middle and upper classes. the only way we can keep what we got is by making it too shit, ugly, or dull for the middle and upper classes to want it. and that's cutting off your nose etc. poor hatboy, i feel for him. he worked hard for brixton's people when he was able to and had all his work taken by capitalists.

sometimes working class community organisation is for mugs. you're just giving your labour away so that rich fucks can profit.

This, maybe, is a good reason why unfocussed and ill-thought-out chaotic rage like this street party is a good response

 

[salem]

I'm not really sure what your point is here or why you're bringing up race.

I was just commenting that I recognise quite a few of the people who are going, and many of them have lived here for a long time. I don't think anyone thinks or expects that they're going to be "totally representative of the general Brixton population," whatever that means.

You posted a comment about the 'going' list. I had a look out of curiosity and thought the sea of white faces was noteworthy in an area that's population is almost half non-white. It's certainly more then a statistical anomaly anyway.

 

[editor]

You posted a comment about the 'going' list. I had a look out of curiosity and thought the sea of white faces was noteworthy in an area that's population is almost half non-white. It's certainly more then a statistical anomaly anyway.

It's not half black either, not that this isn't one of the stupidest arguments ever.

 

[salem]

It's not half black either, not that this isn't one of the stupidest arguments ever.

Those stats on the Lambeth Council website put it at 27.5k non-white (*includes all ethnic groups other than White British, White Irish and Other White) vs 37k white or about 43% black. I think it's fair to call 43% 'almost half'.

Anyway, just an observation.

 

[editor]

Does anyone know when this place is actually opening? Their Twitter feed says Oct 15th, but some people think it's next Tues/Weds.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

My informants tell me they are trying to push for Tuesday.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Also, when I asked if they'd be having a launch night/opening party with treats for traders, I got a bemused 'No'. So sod them.

 

[han]

It'd be great if people would spend this much mental energy on working out how to prevent the corporate chains from destroying our high streets.....

 

[footballerslegs]

I'm infinitely more bothered by the myriad of chain corporations selling mobile phones, clothes and groceries, the loan shark shops and the appalling junk food outlets, whether independent or franchises that comprise the overwhelming majority of shops in Brixton than I'm ever going to be by a small business offering a drink that happens to be associated with rich folk. Good fucking luck to them as far as I'm concerned.

Not to mention the bookies opening on every other corner. Fucking bookies. Let's have a protest the next time a WIlliam Hill opens up.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Not to mention the bookies opening on every other corner. Fucking bookies. Let's have a protest the next time a WIlliam Hill opens up.

The drug dealers that ply their wares outside every bookmakers ought to be brought to the attention of the corporate spivs that deny they host a secondary parasitic behaviour.

 

[editor]

It'd be great if people would spend this much mental energy on working out how to prevent the corporate chains from destroying our high streets.....

People have certainly tried in the past, but I think this is a slightly different thing, and I'm not going to knock them for at least offering some kind of statement - no matter how clumsy - about what's happening to Granville Arcade.

The continuing process of pricing out of a large chunk of the community depresses the fuck out of me.

 

[editor]

Here's how it looks now, complete with 'edgy' typeface. It would seem that a Tuesday opening is on the cards, although I suspect they may just cancel it for a day to avoid the protest.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

We live here we can protest anytime!

 

[leanderman]

The continuing process of pricing out of a large chunk of the community depresses the fuck out of me.

The large chunk being those who are tenants of greedy private landlords?

 

[editor]

The large chunk being those who are tenants of greedy private landlords?

It's all shit.

 

[Badgers]

We live here we can protest anytime!

Not on a Sunday though yeah? I like relaxing on a Sunday.

 

[leanderman]

It's all shit.

Sure.

Those in social housing should not be hit by excessive rent rises though (unless victims of the bedroom tax).

A third of this street is L&Q - and I don't know of anyone being forced out. I may be wrong.

The people who have left this road have left either for bigger homes farther out or schooling or because private rents are too high.

 

[han]

The continuing process of pricing out of a large chunk of the community depresses the fuck out of me.

I'm with you on that.

 

[han]

Those in social housing should not be hit by excessive rent rises though

This is true. The difficulty is for low waged people renting from private landlords. Those in social housing should be relatively safe from all this.

 

[editor]

Sure.

Those in social housing should not be hit by excessive rent rises though (unless victims of the bedroom tax).

A third of this street is L&Q - and I don't know of anyone being forced out. I may be wrong.

The people who have left this road have left either for bigger homes farther out or schooling or because private rents are too high.

Gentrification and upmarket offerings like jolly champagne bars make the place more attractive to the better off, which in turn leads to vastly inflated rent prises. I know many people on modest wages who have had to leave Brixton because they can no longer afford the rent rises foisted on them by private landlords.

Barely any of my friends own properties so they're totally at the mercy of the aforementioned rent-risin' landlords.

 

[leanderman]

Gentrification and upmarket offerings like jolly champagne bars make the place more attractive to the better off, which in turn leads to vastly inflated rent prises. I know many people on modest wages who have had to leave Brixton because they can no longer afford the rent rises foisted on them by private landlords.

Barely any of my friends own properties so they're totally at the mercy of the aforementioned rent-risin' landlords.

Agreed.

 

[Ms T]

Someone told me the other day that people renting in Herne Hill were facing rent rises of 100%.

 

[Badgers]

Someone told me the other day that people renting in Herne Hill were facing rent rises of 100%.

Ouch

 

[Ms T]

I can't believe that can be true tbh. How can you double someone's rent?