Brixton article in Daily Telegraph yesterday

[Stobart Stopper]

In the property pull-out section. Two pages of what it's like to live in Brixton.
It was a complete load of bollocks IMO, if anyone wants it I can send it to them, it's worth a read even if it's sterotypical crap.

[editor]

Did it mention 'edgy'?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

In the property pull-out section. Two pages of what it's like to live in Brixton.
It was a complete load of bollocks IMO, if anyone wants it I can send it to them, it's worth a read even if it's sterotypical crap.



Why can't you stick it up here?

[Donna Ferentes]

That's a pay-off line waiting to happen.

[zenie]

Yeh scan it in stobs :)

[RushcroftRoader]

Yeh scan it in stobs :)

i can't find it anywhere!

[corporate whore]

I've got it right here. I'd transcribe some for you, but it might be a little inflammatory.. ;)

Editor - no 'edgy' but at least one 'buzz'

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Editor - no 'edgy' but at least one 'buzz'



No vibrant either? I'm disappointed :(

[corporate whore]

It's actually kinda funny. A 'burgeoning' music scene is mentioned, citing Eminem and Madonna at the Academy as proof of that. :D

Also, erm, raves about The Fridge - the old problem of news fucking with supplement deadlines - and Club 414, oddly. Didn't know the Telegraph reached out to the ketmonkey dollar.

There's some choice quotes, though.

"Brixton these days has an unassuming alternative quality, like Camden but with fewer poseurs."

:confused:

[zenie]

*Imagines a load of Torygraph readers going to 414*:D

[Minnie_the_Minx]

"Brixton these days has an unassuming alternative quality, like Camden but with fewer poseurs."

:confused:


:D :D

[corporate whore]

"Herne Hill end of Brixton" :mad:

That's the Brixton end of Dulwich, dammit! :rolleyes:

[RushcroftRoader]

It's actually kinda funny. A 'burgeoning' music scene is mentioned, citing Eminem and Madonna at the Academy as proof of that. :D

Also, erm, raves about The Fridge - the old problem of news fucking with supplement deadlines - and Club 414, oddly. Didn't know the Telegraph reached out to the ketmonkey dollar.

There's some choice quotes, though.

"Brixton these days has an unassuming alternative quality, like Camden but with fewer poseurs."

:confused:

who wrote the article?

[corporate whore]

A certain Graham Norwood - obviously a local fella..

http://www.grahamnorwood.info

The first four paragraphs are priceless... might post 'em later..

[onenameshelley]

"Brixton these days has an unassuming alternative quality, like Camden but with fewer poseurs."

:confused:


I always knew i was alternative :p

The thing is, is that camden is like an elephants graveyard, its where punks go to die i am sure of it. So i dunno what that makes brixton

[Stobart Stopper]

I have tried to scan it up but you know what I am like! :o
If Editor wants it I can post it to him, it's just the usual stuff,a bit about the 1981 and 85 riots thrown in as well.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have tried to scan it up but you know what I am like! :o
If Editor wants it I can post it to him, it's just the usual stuff,a bit about the 1981 and 85 riots thrown in as well.


:rolleyes:

So type it! :rolleyes: :D

[Stobart Stopper]

:rolleyes:

So type it! :rolleyes: :D
It's two pages long!
Got to do the ironing anyway! :( :D

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's two pages long!
Got to do the ironing anyway! :( :D


2 x A4 pages?


Should only take about 20 mins then. Sod the ironing :D

[corporate whore]

Here y'are then..

If Brixton’s civic fathers – or even its estate agents – want ambassadors for their area, they need not look further than Laura Saddington and Graham Lane.

The couple, both 27, rented in Brixton for more than two years before buying their first house there in 2005. They marry this summer but have no intention of leaving what they call a “proper community” near clubs, a cinema and shops, and just down the road from a tube station that whisks them to Victoria in nine minutes and Oxford Circus in 14.

A year ago they flirted with the idea of buying a flat in West Hampstead, but ended up paying much the same price for a four-bed house in Brixton. It’s a sign that, despite its good location, Brixton’s property market still has that all too rare quality for London – affordability.

“It’s not yuppified,” says Graham, a corporate lawyer in the City. “It’s a cliché, but there a re real people here who are unpretentious and have proper jobs. You don’t have to drive or get a bus anywhere, the facilities are on your doorstep and, as a result, it’s got a community.”

:)

Spot the obvious, glaring contradiction..

It's yer bog-standard property puff piece, written by someone who knocks these out for a living. All fairly tedious.

Illustrated, incidentally by a pair of 'now and then' photos - one showing the Windsor Castle aflame in 1981, theother claiming to show the same corner 'now completely transformed.' All well and good, except I don't think the 'now' photo is of the same road.. :rolleyes:

[onenameshelley]

Here y'are then..

If Brixton’s civic fathers – or even its estate agents – want ambassadors for their area, they need not look further than Laura Saddington and Graham Lane.

The couple, both 27, rented in Brixton for more than two years before buying their first house there in 2005. They marry this summer but have no intention of leaving what they call a “proper community” near clubs, a cinema and shops, and just down the road from a tube station that whisks them to Victoria in nine minutes and Oxford Circus in 14.

A year ago they flirted with the idea of buying a flat in West Hampstead, but ended up paying much the same price for a four-bed house in Brixton. It’s a sign that, despite its good location, Brixton’s property market still has that all too rare quality for London – affordability.

“It’s not yuppified,” says Graham, a corporate lawyer in the City. “It’s a cliché, but there a re real people here who are unpretentious and have proper jobs. You don’t have to drive or get a bus anywhere, the facilities are on your doorstep and, as a result, it’s got a community.”

:)

Spot the obvious, glaring contradiction..

It's yer bog-standard property puff piece, written by someone who knocks these out for a living. All fairly tedious.

Illustrated, incidentally by a pair of 'now and then' photos - one showing the Windsor Castle aflame in 1981, theother claiming to show the same corner 'now completely transformed.' All well and good, except I don't think the 'now' photo is of the same road.. :rolleyes:



hmmm i have no idea why anyone would actually print that do you think that anyone would want to interview me and Savage Henry about how long we have lived in Brixton, since we both have "properl" jobs.. or the cabbage does anyway. Seems like a total page filler to me boring and with not much point to it. :confused: I wonder what a proper job is anyway??

[gaijingirl]

[QUOTE=corporate whore]

“It’s not yuppified,” says Graham, a corporate lawyer in the City. ”

:D :D

[waverunner]

“It’s not yuppified,” says Graham, an edgy corporate lawyer in the City.
.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

“It’s not yuppified,” says Graham, a corporate lawyer in the City. “It’s a cliché, but there a re real people here who are unpretentious and have proper jobs. You don’t have to drive or get a bus anywhere, the facilities are on your doorstep and, as a result, it’s got a community.”




:rolleyes: Twat :D


I wonder if he considers himself one of the "real people" with a "proper job"

[Andy the Don]

“It’s not yuppified,” says Graham, a corporate lawyer in the City. “It’s a cliché, but there a re real people here who are unpretentious and have proper jobs. You don’t have to drive or get a bus anywhere, the facilities are on your doorstep and, as a result, it’s got a community.”


Hatboy gets his pitchfork, blazing torch & goes searching for them..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39791000/jpg/_39791447_uphellyaafour300.jpg

"Yuppies.. burn them out.."

[corporate whore]

Ye-e-e-es..

Shouldn't read too much into it, TBH. Property supplements is lifestyle-journalism-by-numbers. You or I could've written it, cribbing from a couple of property Web sites, upmystreet or somesuch, and talking to some random couple - Norwood probably knows them, or at least knows someone who knows them.

Shells - I think the guy's talking about SH.. probably seen him slinking around, and thought "now there's a real person. Bet he's got a real job.."

What's a fake job, anyhoo?

[onenameshelley]

Shells - I think the guy's talking about SH.. probably seen him slinking around, and thought "now there's a real person. Bet he's got a real job.."

What's a fake job, anyhoo?


:D either that or that SH might mug him/sell him drugs a real job is where you get to work, till your hands to bleed or summit?? I dunno i am a office monkey by trade so what would i know :D

[Minnie_the_Minx]

:D either that or that SH might mug him/sell him drugs a real job is where you get to work, till your hands to bleed or summit?? I dunno i am a office monkey by trade so what would i know :D


Yeah, I'm a secretary. Get my hands dirty wiping my bosses' arses :D

[onenameshelley]

Yeah, I'm a secretary. Get my hands dirty wiping my bosses' arses :D


exactly :)

[Brixton Hatter]

Brixton’s property market still has that all too rare quality for London – affordability :confused: x 10.
Brixton is well fucking expensive to buy a house - I can hardly afford to rent in Brixton! Once again, an article written about Brixton by someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about :rolleyes:

[onenameshelley]

:confused: x 10.
Brixton is well fucking expensive to buy a house - I can hardly afford to rent in Brixton! Once again, an article written about Brixton by someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about :rolleyes:


I think what they mean by affordable is what most people consider to be pie in the sky prices :rolleyes:

[Crispy]

I think what they mean by affordable is what most people consider to be pie in the sky prices :rolleyes:

Affordable for torygraph readers...

Actually, scratch that. Affordable for torygraph colour supplement readers. My gran readss the telegraph and she couldn't afford a house in Brixton.

[Belushi]

I think what they mean by affordable is what most people consider to be pie in the sky prices :rolleyes:

Innit, how much is a four bed in Brixton nowadays? how much would you have to be earning?

[Agent Sparrow]

Innit, how much is a four bed in Brixton nowadays? how much would you have to be earning?
Lots. I think the flats either side of Nu Urban towers alone went for about £250,000.

Btw, I was having a look and found this (http://www.findaproperty.com/area.aspx?areaid=0109&opt=story&storyid=1348). Has tbaldwin been getting about? :eek: ;)

This (http://www.findaproperty.com/area.aspx?areaid=0109&opt=story&storyid=4180) one also annoyed me - well, if you want it kept a secret don't fucking post it on the fucking interweb!

[happyshopper]

:Once again, an article written about Brixton by someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about :rolleyes:

Well Graham Norwood might be a bit out of date, being as how he now lives in Devon. But at one time he was deputy leader of Lambeth Council, at a time when (Red) Ted Knight was leader.

[RushcroftRoader]

With the risk of having a pitchfork poked in my midriff, I think I ought to stand up for the folk who have not lived in Brixton that long.
My flatmate and I got a joint mortgage for a flat in Brixton two years ago because neither of us could afford to buy anything outright ourselves.
House prices in Brixton are completely barking, but they are slightly less insane than in most other places in London. Given the choice of forking out a fortune in rent or the same amount on a mortgage, I choose a mortgage. I am not going to apologise for it.

I didn't buy in Brixton because it was cheap, I moved here because I love the place. I don't want it to be just like another bit of boring, uniform, dull, expensive crappy Clapham.
I am not having a go at anyone, but sometimes it feels that anyone who happens to wear a suit to work is not welcome within this mythical Brixton community.
Sometimes people who claim to be champions of Brixton's unique character do its reputation the most damage by making it clear that they don't want to share it with anyone who hasn't lived here for 30 years. So much for a spirit of tolerance.
Accusing anyone who wears a suit and has a job in town of being a yuppie twat is like saying that anyone with dreads is automatically a drug-ridden shitbag.
Yeah sure, there are sloany boring twats who move to Brixton because "yah, you know, its like the new Notting Hill, rah rah", but I think those people are the exception rather than the rule.
So please guys, give us newcomers a break.
Right, I am off to the local shop for local people before the folk with the flaming torches turn up.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Accusing anyone who wears a suit and has a job in town of being a yuppie twat



You lucky rich bastard :eek:

I don't even OWN a suit and here you are rubbing it in :rolleyes:






















:p :D