What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

I now live on brick lane.

do your worst

there's nothing we could do that is worse than you've already done to yourself.

The Duke of Uke has turned into a Grensons, which perhaps says it all.

yeah but ukuleles...

there's nothing we could do that is worse than you've already done to yourself.

I was kind of asking since I see most of you buying bagels/getting rad tatts/drinking red stripe here often.

The Duke of Uke has turned into a Grensons, which perhaps says it all.

it moved to cheshire street..

Yesterday, Camden cabaret magnate, Alex Proud, took to the these pages to slate the 'Shoreditchification' of London’s decaying urban neighbourhoods.

The process he described is the same one seen in areas of East Berlin and New York: crack houses get turned into gluten-free vegan microbreweries and knife crime is replaced with sneering at people who shop in Urban Outfitters. In other words: the hipsters take over.

I am part of Mr. Proud's problem. He directs his frustration at the beards and pop-up restaurants that are flooding into London via the Shoreditch sluice gates. Well, that's me. I'm proud to be part of the millennial creative class that's apparently colonising the city. 'Shoreditchification' is becoming a dirty word, so allow me to defend its merits.

It is easy to satirise hipsters by painting us as a militia of irony-drunk re-decorators, contracted by Foxtons to seduce hedge fund managers and their property portfolios.

A scourge of flannel-clad apocalyptic horsemen, riding upon the backs of fixed-gear bikes, we leave a trail of loft conversions and organic street food in our wake. While this is generally the case, it incorrectly suggests we make areas desirable for fun before cycling off to victimise another postcode for jokes.

Not true. Young creatives flock to crime-ridden neighbourhoods because we can’t afford to live elsewhere. It's not a nefarious or sinister decision, just simple financial necessity.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10571976/In-defence-of-the-Shoreditchification-of-London.html

yeah but ukuleles...

Ukuleles arguably (read: definitely) shitter than posh shoes as far as I'm concerned so you know, not all bad. Just different. Personally, I thank hipsterfication for the ready availability of decent coffee too.

The uke shop only moved in well into the 00's and I can't remember what was there in the late 90's. Possibly a greasy spoon, possibly nothing at all. There were a lot of empty shops then. The recording studio in the basement of the uke shop was run by friends of mine. They moved into there from Whitechapel before getting priced out and moving to Limehouse a couple of years ago. They actually moved into the building I used to have a share in a studio in. The circle of life.

The other partner in the studio moved to Ramsgate in an attempt to bring flat whites, cupcakes, craft beer and clanky indie pop to the far Kent coast. If the regular mentions of his cafe, recording studio and live music venue I hear on 6music are anything to go by... he's getting it done too.

Ramsgate, the new Peckham

From todays online telegraph thinking-man's section...

Why-this-Shoreditchification-of-London-must-stop

Pretty spot on article UNTIL he trips himself up by saying how cool Camden is and still will be in 2024. Camden hasn't been cool since about '92 and has been shite for the last 10yrs

Oh, he's the founder and owner of Proud Galleries in CAMDEN you say? An absolute pisspot full of utter bellwipes!

Your agenda stinks Alex Proud

yeah but ukuleles...

Lives round the corner from me

#islington

allways found uke unnerving after seeing this nonce back in the day

Frank Sidebottom - First TV Appearance on 'TX' (1985) - YouTube

Still reeling from the news of the Fassbender/Gyllenhall starring Frank Sidebottom biopic.

Lives round the corner from me

#islington

Ding Sound Effect - YouTube

Still reeling from the news of the Fassbender/Gyllenhall starring Frank Sidebottom biopic.

Bit mad, isn't it?

Oh, he's the founder and owner of Proud Galleries in CAMDEN you say? An absolute pisspot full of utter bellwipes!

Fucking shithole.

I've got a soft-spot for Frank Sidebottom. Fondly remember him being all peculiar on children's telly back in the days of happily talking to strangers.

allways found uke unnerving after seeing this nonce back in the day

Frank Sidebottom - First TV Appearance on 'TX' (1985) - YouTube

Nonce ? seems a bit strong

really?

All nonces seem strong, but that's only because children are weak.

i was 13 in 85

Operation Yewtree >>

keith chegwin aint in there,
always thought he was ok, hope i aint let down

I was steeling hubcaps and sucking on Insignia cans in '85

thanks for sharing that

I was 1, you nonces.

Cracking first post on a new page!