Pop Brixton (formerly Grow Brixton) Pope's Road development

[teuchter]

Electric Brixton has the most thorough and intrusive searches of any venue I have been in for 30 years.

To me, the most intrusive measure is having to provide ID and also have it scanned (414?)

 

[editor]

Electric Brixton has the most thorough and intrusive searches of any venue I have been in for 30 years.

There's several Brixton venues that have been compelled to insist on Photo ID scans for entry - and I really don't like that at all - but the Electric is the only one I know that makes you empty your pockets out into airport-style plastic trays. It's completely over the top and a real buzzkill.

 

[T & P]

No, it ranks on the top of the list of any would-be terrorist, it's that important. It's the most obvious target in Brixton. Apparently.

#topofterroristlist

I'm glad you have latched onto something that gives you so much joy, and hope it continues to provide you with plenty of happiness for the weeks and months to come

 

[editor]

I'm glad you have latched onto something that gives you so much joy, and hope it continues to provide you with plenty of happiness for the weeks and months to come

OK, let's take your daft claim seriously. If it is such a number one terrorist target, how come they don't search bags when it's far busier on some evening events?

And your evidence-untroubled scaremongering doesn't give me pleasure. I find it quite depressing that people like you are so fearful of terrorism that you think that nondescript places like Pop Brixton should be considered major targets.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

To me, the most intrusive measure is having to provide ID and also have it scanned (414?)

Lots of venues are being made to do that. It is intrusive, I don't disagree.

Electric is not being told by any authority to make people empty all their pockets/bags on to a tray before entry. It's a decision they have made.

I work in venues that are dictated to by Lambeth about how they search and what they search for, and I have to have my record bag searched at times. It pisses me off. But The Electric is well over the top, and it is their choice.

 

[editor]

Lots of venues are being made to do that. It is intrusive, I don't disagree.

Electric is not being told by any authority to make people empty all their pockets/bags on to a tray before entry. It's a decision they have made.

I work in venues that are dictated to by Lambeth about how they search and what they search for, and I have to have my record bag searched at times. It pisses me off. But The Electric is well over the top, and it is their choice.

Some venues - like Phonox - have elected to insist on Photo ID scans and it sucks.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Some venues - like Phonox - have elected to insist on Photo ID scans and it sucks.

I'm sure this is a pro-active measure knowing in time they will have to buy the kit and install it etc.....so do it now as part of a new build/fit out...

Sucks? yeah...but if I was opening a new club it makes some sense to install this shit now rather than retro fit it later..

...obviously they don't have to use it from the get go

 

[editor]

If anyone is hankering for some torched mackerel with puffed brown rice, cucumber pickle and gooseberry chutney dish alongside a glass of Chardonnay from boutique Martinborough producer Colombo Wines and has £35 to spare, get down to the green community oasis next Saturday.

‘Into the Vine’ a one day wine festival launching in Brixton this July
‘Open your mind & your palate. Discover the most intriguing wines & producers of the New World’

Antipodean wine specialists, The New Zealand Cellar are throwing a one-day wine festival at street-food hub Pop Brixton this July. Into the Vine is a wine celebration like no other. Headlined bywine heroes such as Joe Wadsack and Jane Parkinson, the festival will feature a day packed with crash courses (including one named ‘Bubble baths for fans of fizz’), DJ’s, blind tastings, mini master classes from wine gurus, food from Pop Brixton’s impressive roster of traders and of course the chance to try some of Aotearoa’s most impressive wines.

In between wine tasting and master classes guests will be fuelled by Pop Brixton’s Made of Dough, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen who’ll be serving up their signature Chichinga – Ghanaian meat kebabs and South Indian sensations Kricket who’ve devised a special food and wine match. Available exclusively at the festival, guests will be able to try their torched mackerel with puffed brown rice, cucumber pickle and gooseberry chutney dish alongside a glass of Chardonnay from boutique Martinborough producer Colombo Wines. The party will be kept alive throughout the day courtesy of all-day soundtrack from of resident DJ’s.

The most impressive cellar finds will be showcased with guests able to taste with more than 80 of New Zealand’s best wines at the tasting table. A number of these are unique to NZ Cellar and can’t be found anywhere else in the UK – they will be available to buy at exclusive prices on this day only.

In addition the NZ Cellar team have pulled together an all-star lineup of Antipodean-focused wine and drinks gurus who will run a series of mini-master classes throughout the day.

Mini-master class sessions at ‘Into the Vine’ include:

• Joe Wadsack, wine personality and host of BBC’s Food & Drink will headline an unmissable session which pairs his top Kiwi wines with a careful selection of tracks from his favourite records
• Jane Parkinson, wine writer and familiar face from BBC’s Saturday kitchen, will pay homage to NZ’s other white wine, Chardonnay
• Peter McCombie MW, one of New Zealand’s only Masters of Wine will talk aromatics
• Ben Glover, Chairman of the infamous Pinot 2017 Celebration (held in NZ) will showcase a grand selection of NZ Pinot Noir
• Nigel Greening of cult winery Felton Road whom, over the course of two sessions will be taking guests through 12 of New Zealand’s most prestigious wines
• Renowned South London roasters Volcano coffee will also host a rare tasting that pits single origin coffees alongside New Zealand’s best drops

These masterclasses are priced at £35pp which includes entry to the main area. With only a limited number of tickets available for each session, these will be sure to sell out well in advance of the event.
The award-winning New Zealand Cellar opened in Pop Brixton last year and operates as a wine shop and wine bar all year round, seven days a week. It’s the UK’s first exclusively New Zealandwine shop and wine bar.

Saturday 16th July
Pop Brixton events space, 49 Brixton Station Road, London, SW9 8PQ
11.00am - 4.00pm
Ticket sales: http://thenewzealandcellar.co.uk/buy-wines/offers/into-the-vine.html

 

[Reiabuzz]

I assume there's about 5 bottles of plonk thrown in for that?

 

[Hoss]

If the £35 includes lunch from the stalls mentioned as well as paired wines and tastings, then £35 seems very good value.


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[pesh]

I went in there for the first time this afternoon.
Fuck me it's awful.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I went in there for the first time this afternoon.
Fuck me it's awful.

I took a friend yesterday. It was heaving, there was a sort of 'party' going on, cue worn out tracks to a posh afternoon crowd. As my friend said, Brixton is now a 'destination.' The bubble wrap enclosure had the effect of bouncing 2 sets of music around into a disturbing stereo. We left quickly. The German beer shop isn't bad but then it's just an offshoot from Fulham. Hardly 'local' enterprise then?

 

[Ms T]

I got a brochure from Pop Brixton through the door the other day. It said that 70 per cent of businesses there are run by local people.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I got a brochure from Pop Brixton through the door the other day. It said that 70 per cent of businesses there are run by local people.

 

[editor]

I got a brochure from Pop Brixton through the door the other day. It said that 70 per cent of businesses there are run by local people.

They have a particularly elastic definition of 'local' and it might be interesting to look at just how long these local businesses have actually been around.

 

[teuchter]

Read this

What Owen Smith's Attempt at Being 'Normal' Tells Us About the State of Politics | VICE | United Kingdom

and thought of this thread. Well, the whole Brixton Forum really.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Don’t Be A Tourist! 9 Places Only Hardcore Londoners Know About

Pop Brixton in a list of 'secret places only hardcore Londoners know about.'

 

[T & P]

Don’t Be A Tourist! 9 Places Only Hardcore Londoners Know About

Pop Brixton in a list of 'secret places only hardcore Londoners know about.'

Whereas the 'hardcore Londoners' expression is rather silly, I don't think the claim is completely untrue. Despite the all-consuming obsession this forum has with the place, it is not nearly as well known outside of Brixton by ordinary peeps. A few press luvvies yes, but that's about it, IME at least.

 

[teuchter]

Don’t Be A Tourist! 9 Places Only Hardcore Londoners Know About

Pop Brixton in a list of 'secret places only hardcore Londoners know about.'

The whole article is a parody, right?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

9 places to avoid if you wanna steer clear of cunts

 

[Rushy]

Indeed, Pop is so very secret that they had to use a photo of Brixton Village instead. The author clearly has their finger firmly on London's pulse.

 

[editor]

Whereas the 'hardcore Londoners' expression is rather silly, I don't think the claim is completely untrue. Despite the all-consuming obsession this forum has with the place, it is not nearly as well known outside of Brixton by ordinary peeps. A few press luvvies yes, but that's about it, IME at least.

I thought it was so popular that it was 'top of the list' for any prospective terrorist?

And this claim that only a 'few press luvvies' know about it seems equally bizarre. It's had shitloads of press coverage from Time Out to the BBC to international flight magazines.

 

[editor]

Don’t Be A Tourist! 9 Places Only Hardcore Londoners Know About

Pop Brixton in a list of 'secret places only hardcore Londoners know about.'

This is quite the biggest pile of stinking shite I've read in a while.

Interesting to note that the Pop 'review' makes zero reference to its supposed horticultural/community qualities: just the usual on-trend waffle about foodie joints, cocktails and live events.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This is quite the biggest pile of stinking shite I've read in a while.

Interesting to note that the Pop 'review' makes zero reference to its supposed horticultural/community qualities: just the usual on-trend waffle about foodie joints, cocktails and live events.

But you can listen to 'Love Music'

Whatever the fuck that is.

Is it like jizz tea

 

[T & P]

I thought it was so popular that it was 'top of the list' for any prospective terrorist?

Not any terrorist- one who was local to the area and/ or planned to bomb a place in Brixton.

Brixton is no stranger to terrorism. But if you think the idea is so far fetched, please continue to have a laugh about it.

And this claim that only a 'few press luvvies' know about it seems equally bizarre. It's had shitloads of press coverage from Time Out to the BBC to international flight magazines.

And yet of all the people from London I've spoken with (face to face in the real world) about Brixton, not a single one of them had heard of Pop.

Perhaps your own experience radically differs from mine.

 

[editor]

And yet of all the people from London I've spoken with (face to face in the real world) about Brixton, not a single one of them had heard of Pop.

Perhaps your own experience radically differs from mine.

I'm not talking about my experiences, I'm dealing in facts: and these are that far from being something that only a ''few press luvvies' know about, Pop has enjoyed substantial media coverage (some of it international), and it is something of a substantial tourist attraction for Brixton.

Even Qantas and Easyjet airlines have featured the place and there's no less than 32 user reviews on Time Out's site, so it's hardly some sort of secret foodie hangout for these mysterious "press luvvies".

 

[teuchter]

The article is terrible but Pop Brixton is hardly something that most visitors to London will have heard about. They know about Madame Tussaud's and Hyde Park and Leicester Square and Covent Garden market and Camden market and Big Ben and Soho and Notting Hill. Brixton is now becoming a tourist destination - but for the time being not really a mainstream destination and its draw is its history and a general notion that it's "up and coming" and somewhere with trendy bars etc. I don't think many people have heard of Pop Brixton specifically.

An anecdotal account to draw some wildly unreliable conclusions from: I was in there last weekend with a few people (first time I've been in there to eat actually) - two from North London who hadn't heard of it before (their comment: it was "quite fun"), one who until very recently lived in SE London who hadn't heard of it (their comment: "There's something like this everywhere in London nowisn't there") and one from the english midlands who certainly hadn't heard of it and why would they have.

 

[editor]

Conde Nast traveller approved too!

This Weekend in London: Pop Brixton, London's Next Go-To Spot, Launches

It's obviously not up there with the major London tourist attractions, but it features in many London tourist guides - both national and international - and to claim that it's only known by a "few press luvvies" is clearly total fucking nonsense.

Top 10: Things You Need to Eat at Pop Brixton
Pop Brixton (London, England): Top Tips Before You Go - TripAdvisor
8 Great London Food Markets

Etc etc etc

 

[Rushy]

Qantas.

 

[T & P]

I'm not talking about my experiences, I'm dealing in facts: and these are that far from being something that only a ''few press luvvies' know about, Pop has enjoyed substantial media coverage (some of it international), and it is something of a substantial tourist attraction for Brixton.

Even Quantas and Easyjet airlines have featured the place and there's no less than 32 user reviews on Time Out's site, so it's hardly some sort of secret foodie hangout for these mysterious "press luvvies".

And yet, not a single person I have met had ever heard of it.

Not everyone spends most of their lives online lapping up every last online review in town. In fact, a lot people who are not in the media/ PR industries will most likely be unaware of the existence of many of the blogs and online magazines that have published articles on Pop, let alone being regular readers of them.