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hiraethified
Poor old Peckham. It's just been declared 'the new Brixton' and a 'hot neighbourhood' by a popular social travel guide.
Coming Up Next: Peckham's Gentrification
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ska invita
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If you dont want it to happen its probably best not to post about it on Brixton Buzz...Its partly all this hot air talk that makes these things happen
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hiraethified
I don't think what's said on BBuzz is going to make a tot of difference in the grand scheme of things.
fogbat
The Talibum
I was as about to say at least 5
Dog About Town. I keep trying to persuade visitors that it's a Korean takeaway.
In summer, when they have their windows open, you can occasionally hear a dog complaining that it Does Not Care For the pampering.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Shoreditchification of London:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thin...-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop.html
Peckham is now a brand.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thin...-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop.html
Peckham is now a brand.
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tbtommyb
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'It's the best because it has cafes and bars and restaurants and clubs!'
not-bono-ever
meh
yes, Peckham is lovely. apart from the grinding poverty n shit that many of the resident live with. Do these people have the abilty to see beyond their ironic specs and grizzly adams beards ?
not-bono-ever
meh
ska invita
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Any Peckhamites know what happened on a bus by the Rye last night? I fear the worst.... loads of police and ambulance action
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hiraethified
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ska invita
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its such a twisted thing that nowadays art brings gentrification with it......
It's not so much "nowadays". See Chelsea half a century ago...
ska invita
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and those Medicis killed the real Florence too
but seriously, the relationship between art and finance has to be at a new low
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
wanna bet?
ska invita
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still very much happening
when the thread started Rye Lane still had its original shops and the newness was basically confined to Bellenden and the Bussey Building - now i count about 6 or 7 new bars/cafes/cool shops along Rye Land and the odd thing happening at the north end high street too
when the thread started Rye Lane still had its original shops and the newness was basically confined to Bellenden and the Bussey Building - now i count about 6 or 7 new bars/cafes/cool shops along Rye Land and the odd thing happening at the north end high street too
not-bono-ever
meh
http://www.thedeaddollsclub.com/Peckham/
How do I feel about this? I was not a fan of the Clayton arms by any means....
How do I feel about this? I was not a fan of the Clayton arms by any means....
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh but this is far, far worse.
not-bono-ever
meh
"Descend to the car park's ground level, however, and the scene is altogether less serene. Balls of hair, offcuts from the local barbershops, waft along the pavement. Irate women shout on their phones. Music blasts out from stores bearing overripe fruit and vegetables of indeterminate origin. Halal butchers wheel chicken carcasses around in shopping trolleys. Welcome to Rye Lane, Peckham.
Under the railway arches of the nearby station, avant-garde gallery Arcadia Missa sits inconspicuously next to a car mechanic's workshop. Its 27-year-old founder, Rózsa Farkas, is putting the art world to rights over paper-cup gin and tonics. She's just landed from Venice, at the Biennale. "It was awful. I don't know why they would put Sarah Lucas in the British Pavilion, it was so outdated, irrelevant…" she says, shaking out her blunt bob - newly chopped by an artist-slash-hairstylist friend, whose salon sits beyond crates of yams in a Rye Lane arcade. "It was embarrassing," she adds, a countercultural outlook that echoes throughout this corner of the art world."
http://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/2015/08/new-generation-of-artists-in-peckham
yes. fuckin' vogue.
Under the railway arches of the nearby station, avant-garde gallery Arcadia Missa sits inconspicuously next to a car mechanic's workshop. Its 27-year-old founder, Rózsa Farkas, is putting the art world to rights over paper-cup gin and tonics. She's just landed from Venice, at the Biennale. "It was awful. I don't know why they would put Sarah Lucas in the British Pavilion, it was so outdated, irrelevant…" she says, shaking out her blunt bob - newly chopped by an artist-slash-hairstylist friend, whose salon sits beyond crates of yams in a Rye Lane arcade. "It was embarrassing," she adds, a countercultural outlook that echoes throughout this corner of the art world."
http://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/2015/08/new-generation-of-artists-in-peckham
yes. fuckin' vogue.
not-bono-ever
meh
a guide to writing this kind of article
1) set the background as the locale being shit, poor and a culture free zone
2) introduce the rich entitled charachters who have moved there in the past few years and detail how edgy, mould smashing , great and well comnected they are
3) describe the areas as " the next *********" )
1) set the background as the locale being shit, poor and a culture free zone
2) introduce the rich entitled charachters who have moved there in the past few years and detail how edgy, mould smashing , great and well comnected they are
3) describe the areas as " the next *********" )
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
1) is always a lie, and 2) always elides the culturally-rich characters who already lived there. I went to warehouse parties in Peckham in '89/90/91 that were awash with locals doing their own Arts thangs - everything from live music to performance art to painting and sculpture, and the estates were alive with music. As always, all that rich bottom-up (and inevitably working class and/or "not quite middle class enough) culture gets washed away by the rush to commodify and marketise stuff into a top-down "you must like this to be hip" slew of bullshit 2nd-hand tat.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I think "playground for the rich" elides a big part of the reality, which is that the poor (and increasingly those elements of the middle class whose livelihoods depend on being in London or nearby) are being residualised into what are effectively smaller and smaller "reservations" in some boroughs - not all yet, but getting there - with all the concomitant social pressures that brings.
The "playground for the rich" very much (especially in an era when police personnel numbers are at their lowest in 5 decades) has the potential for becoming the site of a bonfire.
I kid you not, was on the train the other day on my way to visit the in-laws in the North East and me and the Mrs got chatting to a very middle class middle aged lady who was sitting opposite us, she was going back home to York. After a 20 minute conversation about how London has/is changing and is midway through a process of being "Toried" aka "Social Cleansed" the lady turned round to me and said my daughter is moving down to London soon and needs somewhere to live that is cheap and nice, don't we all? these places no longer exist. Anyway, she mentioned a few places and then out of the blue said "My Daughter wants to live in Peckham, it is suppose to be really nice there". Times have really changed, when I was growing up as a kid back in the 80's many many people avoided Peckham, Camberwell, Brixton & Stockwell (where I grew up), we were ridiculed for living in these places.
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