What's it like to live in Brixton / Brixton Borders

do you mean re-open a closed and near derelict venue to provide employment and exciting artspace?....

Well I suppose I did pay off lots of my student loan via the upstairs room!

I moved to Brixton in 1994, had visited for boozing purposes about 2 years prior to that. Never went to the Brixtonian in either of it's locations, and only to SW9 in about 99'
In the early days there wasn't any ponsey middle class white people bars as you know them now, just old man pubs and nightclubs best left alone. There wasn't really any midle class white people either, it was nice back then.

The Atlantic/Dogstar was never anything other than a shithole, if you are honest with yourselves, and it was at it's worst when Winston (allegedly) worked there.

Cooltan was even worse. Winston allegedly used to party there.

There were middle class white people there in the late 80s, but they moved out temporarily when that well known scourge of the white, university-educated, middle-classes - Pistanator - moved over from Wantage...

In the early days there wasn't any ponsey middle class white people bars as you know them now, just old man pubs and nightclubs best left alone. There wasn't really any midle class white people either, it was nice back then.

You never went to the gay commune then?

You never went to the gay commune then?

Of course not, I'm working class heterosexual therefore homophobic.

I loved the Cooltan, under the decks was a particularly comfortable place to sleep.

Rpm moved there for this.

The communal garden was 'interesting'.

20 years out. Winston, I suppose you'll be claiming to have started that will you? or that you did the canapés for all their "do's"

The communal garden was 'interesting'.

Surely you are not old enough to have witnessed this blasphemous nebulosity?

20 years out. Winston, I suppose you'll be claiming to have started that will you? or that you did the canapés for all their "do's"

tomato roses were popular.

121 Railton Road, only place to party BITD... The Cooltan was full of crusties... Did... Not... Want...
TBH I was too scared to go into the Atlantic and I've only been in the Dogstar once... My mate made me go, it was lunchtime, it was the late 90s, it was full of cunts then as well, even at lunchtime... Integrity intact... What's left of it...

121 Railton Road, only place to party BITD...

I had a look at that when it got put up for auction, fucked up it was.

I had a look at that when it got put up for auction, fucked up it was.

That must be just over the road from my house. Was it a squat?

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Squat/club/party house...

we should go in on saturday, plonk ourselves at the bar and start double-barreling shots. see how long it takes him to click.

The forum will miss her...

More helmets than Barry Sheene

Or so I've been told....

Helen is moving to Dubai end of Jan.

Is she the pretty one?

you're thinking of hamsandwich

More helmets than Barry Sheene

Or so I've been told....

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Brixton lost a little something when Home James closed (got busted).

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Southern shandy drinker...

The annual round of halff arsed consultation on funding.... however there's lots of local brixton projects:

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/CouncilDemocracy/Consultations/BudgetConsultation.htm

I'm opting for 198 Gallery. Incidentally, Hustlebucks (set up inside 198 by their young clients) has a shop in Granville Arcade now.

[you can vote more than once by the way, not that I suggest you do]