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

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  • "As a previous resident of 12 years"
    Would be more accurate. You fucking Islingtonite.

    Racist

  • Ha, I think it's been Brixton Village for a few years, but no one ever called it that.

    LAP unsuccessfully tried to destroy Granville Arcade to replace it with a massive shopping centre, and it got listed status linked to the fact that it was one of the first streets in the world ever to have electric lights (hence the Electric Avenue).

    This stopped LAP from knocking it down, so they decided to move more £$ middle class people things into it - Spacemakers arrived and used the Brixton Village name.

    Everyone except Cla'ham types still seem to call it Granville.

    Still a fair bit of animosity going on - old tenants are being priced out as rents increase, and they're not getting the advantages of the 100% rent reduction offers that the new restaurants are getting, despite having been there with flaking paint and terrible toilets for the last decade.

  • More importantly, and given the 12 years ago comments... who wants to come to the new Electric Brixton (aka Fridge) launch night:

    Felix da Housecat / DJ Hell / JoJo De Freq

    24th Sept. Not that the fridge is still full of asbestos or anything (cough).

  • More importantly, and given the 12 years ago comments... who wants to come to the new Electric Brixton (aka Fridge) launch night:

    Felix da Housecat / DJ Hell / JoJo De Freq

    24th Sept. Not that the fridge is still full of asbestos or anything (cough).

    Yeah count me in. I love goin out with the fear of gettin stabbed/shot/beaten up with baseball bats by the bouncers

  • Felix da Housecat. There's a fat man I haven't seen for a bit.

  • Felix da Housecat. There's a fat man I haven't seen for a bit.
    Separate sentences? Is the latter a reference to the person who posted immediately prior to you?

  • Well...It was more a statement, then another statement about that statement. A comma could have worked better, but I was trying to replicate how I might have said it in real life.
    I couldn't comment on the implied meaning you detected, as it wasn't implied in my original post.

    Your honour.

  • I'd shank him Pisti.

  • You'd shank anybody/anyone.

  • Only so I can fit in in my new Southern surroundings.

  • That's all stopped now he's gone North.

  • Actually, the reason I'm moving South is because North of the river went down hill.

  • You're moving South/you've moved South?

    What are you expecting from South? If North went down hill?

  • North has gone South?

  • Day-moe, go to Hackney Wick. All the reasons you'll ever need to move away from where I currently live will be standing around judging you and/or throwing up on their very very exclusive footware.

  • Yeah count me in. I love goin out with the fear of gettin stabbed/shot/beaten up with baseball bats by the bouncers

    i'm sure the old bouncers preferred an iron bar.

    edit
    i'll take that video clip out it is a bit brutal.

  • Go Ellis is in that clip somewhere (not taking part, but passing your Honour).

    Pisti - new whopping great big PA, and new security too, who I'm guessing at this early stage haven't started a massive grudge with the Academy, or the Satay bar.

    In more positive news there's another festival in Loughborough Junction soon - books / film etc this time and with this bloke exhibiting:

    http://io9.com/5738491/the-robots-of-brixton/gallery/1

  • looks like the matrix inside.

    http://youtu.be/HUMYTwd7wdM

  • snowy, in for felix da housecat bidness..

    and probably loughborough junction action as well..

    remember when brixton arcade was just a space for old white haired man, in white shorts to dance barefoot and barechested in the entrance listening to dub being played from the record shop just inside..

    times done changed..

  • ^^^ nah, Reggae Shack Simon is still there!

  • The Robots of Brixton guy had an exhibition a month or so ago, in Brickbox, one of the new restaurants in Granville Arcade. Looked interesting.

    Been in Brixton since 93. For almost all of that time, Granville Arcade was the crappest part of the market, with a few decrepit food stores selling even more decrepit food. It was the bit you wandered into once you'd gone round all the good places - and left again, cause there was fuck all worth the time. The new name for the arcade may be poncey but I'm not going to get all nostalgic about what it used to be like.

  • Oh fuck, according to snowy's definition up there, I am a clapham type.

    Say it ain't so.

  • Sorry, Matt, I was taught not to lie.

  • Sorry, Matt, I was taught not to lie.

    So what you're saying is you're naturally dishonest?

  • Yes.

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