Pop Brixton (formerly Grow Brixton) Pope's Road development
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superfly101
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I have to say that the world of heavily backed international entrepreneurial wine importers in hipster container parks isn't exactly my world.
Well "darling" - flutters eye lids like Alex Polizzi - we could crowd fund you on to the wine course at either NZ girl Pop or the wine bar across from Brixton Whole Foods?
Although afterwards you might have to shave a bit closer if you fancy a crack at Londons 1st and only female oriented wine selection at Brixton dim sum restaurant The Courtesan.
Although perversely the chief head wine grower of one of the NZ vineyards supplying the Court is a girl from Brixton!
What is it about wine, girls and Brixton/NZ? You haven't done a Crowded House night at the 414 in recent memory have you Ed?
superfly101
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hiraethified
This is just depressing. Either you want a functioning Brixton forum where people can debate local issues, or you just want to fuck about and trash it with irrelevant and disruptive personal shit. And, yes, this applies to everyone else too. Including myself.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
For one thing, that she's a wanker, funded by and patronised by wankers.
Can you expand on this please, ddraig?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
At least she didn't raise it from Lambeth Council!
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Just got back from Pop Brixton and I really like it. Really nice atmosphere. Great music. I'll certainly be going back
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
and they coincidentally are of a similar ilk! funny that init
how about you get over others having a dissenting/different view
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Plastic Paddy
I'm perfectly happy to discuss other views but you can't even articulate yours beyond some turgid nonsense that goes something like 'crowd funding. Boooo'.
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Plastic Paddy
Is it all open on Sundays?
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Sunday 9:00am until 11:00pm
FridgeMagnet
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An average of £200ish per backer is pretty high for crowdfunding. I would suspect that it was biased upwards by large pledges from a few supporters though.
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Plastic Paddy
What the fuck are you wittering on about now?
Forty grand could come from a remortgage, modest inheritance, saving like buggery for years....
I'd wager that there are a fair few posters on this very thread that could put that together, particularly those that are homeowners.
And there are 200 people involved here!
The point is, these folk are not necessarily "rich backers".
Forty grand could come from a remortgage, modest inheritance, saving like buggery for years....
I'd wager that there are a fair few posters on this very thread that could put that together, particularly those that are homeowners.
And there are 200 people involved here!
The point is, these folk are not necessarily "rich backers".
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SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Very true. It is a relative scale however with lots of posters on here who will consider that an out of reach fortune - this is, as we're oft reminded, one of the poorest wards in London
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Anyway, I don't give a monkeys where she got the money from, it's none of my business. I think the wine shop is a nice addition to Pop and I hope she does well.
FridgeMagnet
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I think it is a dead end to start arguing about whether the amount of support a particular person had is excessive tbh. There are always going to be examples on both sides.
What I think is more important is the way people get to be in Pop. The video makes it look basically like an air dropped gentrification bomb, like the Tesco stores from when they invaded Denmark—hermetically sealed from the rest of Brixton, designed for a specific demographic and with a payload to match. That's actually not so much about the money they have, though it isn't irrelevant.
What I think is more important is the way people get to be in Pop. The video makes it look basically like an air dropped gentrification bomb, like the Tesco stores from when they invaded Denmark—hermetically sealed from the rest of Brixton, designed for a specific demographic and with a payload to match. That's actually not so much about the money they have, though it isn't irrelevant.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Probably best to go there in person rather than judging it by a video seemingly made by an overexcited teenager, though.
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hiraethified
That works at nearly four times the average sum of money per person for crowdfunded campaigns. She reached £35,000 in just 144 hours. That is a lot, lot higher than average. Compare with, say, the Brixton Blog who struggled to reach a much smaller total over a much longer period - and even then they had to extend it.
FridgeMagnet
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Perhaps, but it does give you an idea of their marketing strategy and overall vision—they wouldn't have put it up otherwise. I wasn't joking when I said it made it sound like it was for people who thought the Shoreditch Boxpark was a bit too intimidatingly local.
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hiraethified
An "awesome" video that has been warmly endorsed by Pop Brixton themselves, both on Twitter and Facebook, so presumably they must feel that it's representative of the experience.
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hiraethified
How does this strange comment help the discussion? What is your point? Who 'secretly fancies' who?
It was a jokey way of saying you are obsessed with this business.
