Famous Locals Past and Present

[Orang Utan]

Been discussing this on another thread, but I think it deserves its own. So far we have:
Paul Ross
James Nesbit
Darcus Howe
Tibor Fischer
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Joanna Lumley
Will Self
Helen Lederer
Gregor Fisher (Rab C Nesbitt)
Amita Dhiri
Miranda Sawyer
Jay Rayner
Chris Morris
Rob Birch
Michael Smiley
Jerry Dammers
Matthew Herbert
Me
Any more?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Been discussing this on another thread, but I think it deserves its own. So far we have:
Paul Ross
James Nesbit
Darcus Howe
Tibor Fischer
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Joanna Lumley
Will Self
Helen Lederer
Gregor Fisher (Rab C Nesbitt)
Amita Dhiri
Miranda Sawyer
Jay Rayner
Chris Morris
Rob Birch
Michael Smiley
Jerry Dammers
Matthew Herbert
Me
Any more?


Me

Are we adding St Reathamites as well? Ken Livingstone

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just residents or born here?

Bowie, Sharon Osbourne, John Major

[Belushi]

Didnt Van Gogh live round there for a while?

[christonabike]

Basement Jaxx

Alabama 3

Vic Lambrusco

Editor of Urban 75

The Windmill

:)

[zenie]

Didnt Van Gogh live round there for a while?

Stockwell/Oval

and doesn't Joanna Lumley live in Stockwell not Brixton? Albert Square? (might be thinking of someone else)

e2a Basement Jaxx's studio is in Camberwell, are they from Brixton originally?

[Orang Utan]

Didnt Van Gogh live round there for a while?
Possibly - some mental painter lived in Stockwell, on Landor Road - can't remember exactly

[Yelkcub]

Didnt Van Gogh live round there for a while?

I heard that. (He didn't:D *)


*Yeah, yeah I know cutting off one ear wouldn't make you deaf but you can suspend disbelief for the sake of the gag can't you?:mad:

[mccliche]

where does Chris Morris live then?

[Orang Utan]

Stockwell/Oval

and doesn't Joanna Lumley live in Stockwell not Brixton?
Stockwell is local

[Orang Utan]

where does Chris Morris live then?
St Saviour's Road - not telling you what number though!

[zenie]

Stockwell is local

oh I thought you were palming them off as bring from Brixton :)

[Orang Utan]

I heard that. (He didn't:D *)


*Yeah, yeah I know cutting off one ear wouldn't make you deaf but you can suspend disbelief for the sake of the gag can't you?:mad:
Yes it's true!
"His birth on 30 March 1853 to the pastor Theodorus van Gogh and his wife Anna, was the first of six to the couple. He was named after his uncle, an art dealer, Vincent Willem van Gogh. After a lonely and awkward childhood at boarding school in Tilburg then at secondary school, Vincent was despatched to The Hague to join his namesake at Goupil & Co.

In 1873 he was promoted and sent to London, home of four million people. During a daily walk from his lodgings in Brixton to Covent Garden, his eyes were opened to the realities of poverty and wretched living conditions. It was here too that he suffered his first painful rebuff in love, from his landlady's daughter Eugenie"
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/V/vincent/prog.html

[story]

Chris Pyne (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950417/ai_n13977596)

Matt Rugg (painter and sculptor)

Billy Ocean

Fruitbat from Carter USM

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Eddie Izzard (used to live in Pullman Court next to Brixton Bus Garage)

[milly molly]

Jenny Eclair lives up the road and the woman who used to be Martin Platt's girlfriend just before he left Coronation Street lived next door to me. Jude Law went to school here and was in my local the other day. As was Nesbitt.

[Orang Utan]

Apollinaire stalked some poor lass on Landor Road:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0,6121,1355266,00.html

[aqua]

so how come, not once, have I ever seen any of these people (or indeed anyone famous :D) in Brixton or London even :o

[christonabike]

cos you don't get out much?

tied to the moderators chair?

no eyes?

dunno

[story]

Bad Company used to live in Brixton. The whole tribe of them. In a house with a swimming pool in the garden.

[Orang Utan]

so how come, not once, have I ever seen any of these people (or indeed anyone famous :D) in Brixton or London even :o
Lots of people live there - I have friends who live here who almost never bump into unless I've arranged to meet them, so it's not surprising if you've never seen any on the list, especially if you don't live there
I've lived here for 6 years and seen these people, some more than once:
Chris Morris
Rob Birch
Michael Smiley
Jerry Dammers
Matthew Herbert
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Miranda Sawyer
Paul Ross
Basement Jaxx
Will Self

[skyscraper101]

Mark Thomas

Mike Skinner

erm...can't remember who else :(

[drag0n]

Does Stella Duffy live around loughborough junction? Or maybe that's where's she's basing a book. I can't remember. :confused: :o


What about John Major? Was he more the camberwell end of coldharbour lane? Then he moved nearer to Myatts Fields.


edit: I did a google for the myatts field bit and funnily enough got an urban thread. :)

[mccliche]

Bad Company used to live in Brixton. The whole tribe of them. In a house with a swimming pool in the garden.

the guitar band or the drum n bass collective?

[bluestreak]

CLR James FFS :mad:

[Zeppo]

The mighty Vic Lambrusco (have an interest here for any who remember the legendary Hard Edge nights.

Plus of course editor Urban 75.

[Orang Utan]

The mighty Vic Lambrusco (have an interest here for any who remember the legendary Hard Edge nights.

Plus of course editor Urban 75.
They're not famous, they're just local characters!

[snowy_again]

isn't Kelly Brook meant to be a herne hill type? oh and Jeeves from Jeeves and Wooster. But I suppose he's fictional.

[Maggot]

Mark Thomas

Mike Skinner

erm...can't remember who else :( Neither of them are Brixtonites. The woman from the Brittas Empire is.

[Dubversion]

Mike Skinner used to live off Brixton Hill, so he's as much a Brixtonite as many others mentioned.

Tim Roth went to the school on Elm Park Road, so presumably he's local.
Nick Cave used to live on Brixton Hill too, and Nico on Effra Road.
Saffron from Republica is from Tulse Hill, are we counting that? The Cult used to live in Brixton. And Julian Cope used to live somewhere near the Canning

[Orang Utan]

Neither of them are Brixtonites. The woman from the Brittas Empire is.
They don't have to be - they just have to have lived locally

[milly molly]

Neither of them are Brixtonites. The woman from the Brittas Empire is.

Whoops, I was citing East Dulwich as local, sorry.

[Orang Utan]

Whoops, I was citing East Dulwich as local, sorry.
It is local!
And so is Tulse Hill

[story]

the guitar band or the drum n bass collective?


The guitarosauruses

[story]

Neither of them are Brixtonites. The woman from the Brittas Empire is.


The mad skinny one from Green Wing?

I got her autograph when I saw her in Tesco. She was charming. It ws quite a disappointment.

Oh curses... can't remember his name... the gentle annoyed one on Radio Four's News Quiz... Jeremy Hardy!! Him! I've seen him about in Brixton.

[ianw]

Amita Dhiri


Not sure if she's a definite local though. I just saw a women who looked like her the other day...

[Orang Utan]

The mad skinny one from Green Wing?

I got her autograph when I saw her in Tesco. She was charming. It ws quite a disappointment.

You actually went up to someone and asked for an autograph? :eek:
And you still don't remember her name? :D
Do you mean the Scottish one? Michelle Gomez?

[ianw]

One of the Super Furries and Rhys Ifans used to live on a road off Acre Lane. Tim and Laetitia from Stereolab lived in Brixton too.

[Dubversion]

They don't have to be - they just have to have lived locally

Yeh, otherwise Van Gogh and Gregor Fisher might be in trouble too :D

[story]

You actually went up to someone and asked for an autograph? :eek:
And you still don't remember her name? :D
Do you mean the Scottish one? Michelle Gomez?


Well I didn't go up to her. She was behind me in the queue.

I recognised her, and we were collecting autogrpahs at the time. For a sick child, or something.

No, not the Scottish one, the one married to Mr Brittas.

[Dubversion]

Danielle Dax used to live on Brixton Water Lane....

[story]

There's a young black model with amazing hair who lives in Brixton. No idea what her name is. I see her in the press, and I see her in the street.

[twisted]

One of the Super Furries and Rhys Ifans used to live on a road off Acre Lane. Tim and Laetitia from Stereolab lived in Brixton too.


She's still local and playing at a local venue soon;)

Past residents to add;

Nico
John Cooper Clarke

[Dubversion]

is Oval Mansions too far?

Ian Dury

[Tricky Skills]

I'm loving Rab C Nesbitt and Billy Ocean so far - sums up Brixton for me :D

[Donna Ferentes]

If East Dulwich counts who's that loud comedian woman who lives in a house near Denmark Hill station? She's probably been mentioned already but as I can't remember her name, I wouldn't know!

I believe it was as a result of mentioning that Van Gogh lived nearby that Waldemar Januszcak made disparaging remarks about Brixton for which I extracted an apology from him.

[Donna Ferentes]

By the way, did Eddy Grant?

[Orang Utan]

If East Dulwich counts who's that loud comedian woman who lives in a house near Denmark Hill station? She's probably been mentioned already but as I can't remember her name, I wouldn't know!

Jenny Eclair

[Donna Ferentes]

I have to say though, if East Dulwich is local how come it takes so fucking long to get from one place to the other? Even if the 37 ever turns up....

[sojourner]

Johnny Vegas :D

And NO dillinger, I do NOT sound like him :mad:

[Orang Utan]

It only takes 40 minutes to walk to

[Donna Ferentes]

It only takes 40 minutes to walk toSo is Battersea local too?

[Orang Utan]

By the way, did Eddy Grant?
Well, he was always going down to Electric Avenue, and then, I believe, he was going to take it higher.

[Orang Utan]

So is Battersea local too?
Yes of course!

[Orang Utan]

Johnny Vegas :D


Where?

[Dubversion]

well if we're counting Battersea, we can count Balham. And if we're counting Balham, just about every comedian for the last 20 years.

[sojourner]

Where?
St Helens! He also used to work in the pub round the corner from me



(and I rented him an office once, for 2 months)

[Orang Utan]

St Helens! He also used to work in the pub round the corner from me
That's definitely not local

[Donna Ferentes]

well if we're counting Battersea, we can count Balham. And if we're counting Balham, just about every comedian for the last 20 years.Well, every London comedian.

[Orang Utan]

well if we're counting Battersea, we can count Balham. And if we're counting Balham, just about every comedian for the last 20 years.
Heheh, that's true - Tooting's in as well - I meant SW London basically

[sojourner]

That's definitely not local
It fucking is to me

[Donna Ferentes]

It fucking is to meI don't know if you've glanced at the forum title...it's local to the top lefthand corner of your screen...

[Orang Utan]

It fucking is to me
Start your own thread in the Northern forum then!

[Dubversion]

Well, every London comedian.


no, not exclusively.

[Orang Utan]

no, not exclusively.
Rich Hall lived there for a bit and now lives in Marylebone

[Dubversion]

Alexei Sayle, Paul O'Grady also spring to mind.

anyway, let's not get caught up in Donna-pedantry, it's a bore

[sojourner]

I don't know if you've glanced at the forum title...it's local to the top lefthand corner of your screen...
Shut it

[sojourner]

Start your own thread in the Northern forum then!
Fucking make me! :mad: :p

[Donna Ferentes]

Alexei Sayle, Paul O'Grady also spring to mind.

anyway, let's not get caught up in Donna-pedantry, it's a bore<yawns>

[bluestreak]

Bollocks, Tulse Hill, Dulwich, Battersea? These are not Brixton. While I'm not one for delineating the boundaries of an area, these are clearly not included.

[Orang Utan]

Bollocks, Tulse Hill, Dulwich, Battersea? These are not Brixton. While I'm not one for delineating the boundaries of an area, these are clearly not included.
I didn't say they were Brixton - I said they were local

[Donna Ferentes]

Tell you what, the estate agents would agree with us on that one.

[Dubversion]

Bollocks, Tulse Hill, Dulwich, Battersea? These are not Brixton. While I'm not one for delineating the boundaries of an area, these are clearly not included.


Read the thread :p

[boohoo]

Roger Moore - Stockwell boy.
Skin from Skunk Anansie went to school in Tulse Hill.
Van Gogh lived on Hackford Road (Oval/stockwell way)

[Dubversion]

Van Gogh lived on Hackford Road (Oval/stockwell way)

Read the thread :p

:D

[Orang Utan]

Roger Moore - Stockwell boy.

I thought it was Streatham

[spanglechick]

Ian McKellan used to live in Camberwell when he was young and skint. I think he's still relatively local now.

[Orang Utan]

Ian McKellan used to live in Camberwell when he was young and skint. I think he's still relatively local now.
He lives in Limehouse

[boohoo]

I thought it was Streatham

well he went swimming down stockwell park school and he went secondry school in the school opposite where Van Gogh lived ( I know this because it became the primary school I went to)

[boohoo]

Read the thread :p

:D

I was giving an exact location .... OK!!!:mad: It's opposite my primary school where the mother of Pete Doherty's child went to School - Lisa Moorish ( she's also had Liam Gallagher's kid)

[co-op]

Doon Mackichan (Smack The Pony, Brass Eye etc)- used to live on the Loughborough Estate back in the 80s in a hard-to-let flat on about the 6th floor. Respeck innit.

[co-op]

I thought it was Streatham

Roger Moore went to Reay Primary School on Caldwell St (just between Clapham Rd and Brixton Rd). That's Stockwell.

[Orang Utan]

Roger Moore went to Reay Primary School on Caldwell St (just between Clapham Rd and Brixton Rd). That's Stockwell.
The SLP had a pic of the street he lived on and it was in Streatham, so I guess he lived there and went to school in Stockwell

[co-op]

Mike Skinner used to live off Brixton Hill, so he's as much a Brixtonite as many others mentioned.




Mike Skinner used to drink at the Canton on South Lambeth Rd. Chalk it up for Stockwell. Brixton's just a suburb of Loughborough Junction, nothing happening mate :cool: .

[Dubversion]

Mike Skinner used to drink at the Canton on South Lambeth Rd. Chalk it up for Stockwell. Brixton's just a suburb of Loughborough Junction, nothing happening mate :cool: .


He also used to drink at the King of Sardinia on Brixton Hill, because it was near his house. So that'll be Brixton then :)

[co-op]

The SLP had a pic of the street he lived on and it was in Streatham, so I guess he lived there and went to school in Stockwell

I spose he could have moved. But why?

[Orang Utan]

I spose he could have moved. But why?
He may not have moved - it's perfectly normal to live in one place and go to school in another - see all those kids on buses?

[co-op]

He also used to drink at the King of Sardinia on Brixton Hill, because it was near his house. So that'll be Brixton then :)

Yeah but I heard him clearly slagging you lot all off down the Canton, said he only drank up thataways to "get material". :p

[co-op]

He may not have moved - it's perfectly normal to live in one place and go to school in another - see all those kids on buses?

It's a primary school, a really titchy one, one class per year, oldest are (or used to be) 9 years old, I don't think they'd be on the bus from Streatham.

[Dubversion]

that's cos we're original pirates up here. Not like you South Lambeth Road ponces

[Cowley]

Jack Straw, lives behind Oval tube station, Hanover Gardens or one of the other posh Georgian streets round there.

[Donna Ferentes]

Jack Straw, lives behind Oval tube station, Hanover Gardens or one of the other posh Georgian streets round there.I know where it is - I was on a demonstration there when the war started.

[Cowley]

I see Norman Jay quite a bit in Brixton, I don't think he lives here though. I think his girlfriend does though.

[co-op]

that's cos we're original pirates up here. Not like you South Lambeth Road ponces

:mad:

Stockwell mob. I'll tell them I will.

They're surprisingly quick on the zimmer frames you know, you want to watch it.

[boohoo]

Jimmy Cauty - KLF - lived on Jeffries Road in Stockwell then got a posh house on St Michaels Road. His skip was worth a rummage when he moved out!

[boohoo]

that's cos we're original pirates up here. Not like you South Lambeth Road ponces

Original pirates? From suburban streatham...that's practically the countryside!!!

[co-op]

Jack Straw, lives behind Oval tube station, Hanover Gardens or one of the other posh Georgian streets round there.

We've got a few MP types down this way. Tim Eggar, the extremely unfamous tory Energy Minister used to live on Fentiman Rd. He's mostly famous locally for bullying the shit out of some school girl who picked a flower out of his front garden. Her Dad went round and gave him a smack in the face giving him a black eye which got loads of tabloid journalists digging around for what happened and the geezer ended up with a front page spread on the front of Today giving his side of the story and challenging Eggar to prosecute him for assault - he was face of the week in the pub I remember. I think everyone was a bit jealous at being able to take a shot at one of those wankers so publically and get away with it.

[co-op]

Original pirates? From suburban streatham...that's practically the countryside!!!

That was for the unreleased Original Yokel Material, with the Wurzels.

[boohoo]

If we are talking local then, Pepys lived in Clapham as did the Victorian artist whose painting - the pretty baa lambs - is of Clapham Common.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4329/mbcb8.jpg

[Dubversion]

We've got a few MP types down this way.

i think i used to live very near you :)

[Orang Utan]

Ford Madox Brown - that's one of the most nauseating pieces of tat the Victorians ever produced

[boohoo]

Ford Madox Brown - that's one of the most nauseating pieces of tat the Victorians ever produced

Isn't the painting by William Holman Hunt? fairly similar in perhaps their choice of models....and were they both part of the pre-raphelite movement? I can't remember.... I quite like it....

[Orang Utan]

Isn't the painting by William Holman Hunt? fairly similar in perhaps their choice of models....and were they both part of the pre-raphelite movement? I can't remember.... I quite like it....
It's definitely Brown: http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/maddox_baa.htm
Hunt did The Awakening Conscience, which is equally hideous:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hunt/hunt_conscience.jpg
It's easy to confuse the Pre-Raphealites though, the twats :)

[boohoo]

It's definitely Brown: http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/maddox_baa.htm
Hunt did The Awakening Conscience, which is equally hideous:

It's easy to confuse the Pre-Raphealites though, the twats :)

I like the Pre-raphaelites - all that airy-fairy stuff - Rossetti, Millais... and William Morris of course....

[co-op]

Now William Blake ended up living in North Lambeth - it's local but only sort of. But I'd argue him as a passing local from when he lived more centrally in London since he used to walk down to Shoreham in Kent to see Samuel Palmer. Some have argued that when he refers to Beulah, or the Vale of Beulah, he was - as the Tate Gallery would have it in their exhibition notes to his drawings - referring to a metaphysical place, "the realm of the subconscious, the source of inspiration". To the proper south Londoner however he was obviously referring to Beulah Hill and Beulah Vale, just south of West Norwood. It's not the most direct route to Shoreham, but I think he must have walked that way for the fantastic view over London it offers. Whatever, he must have clearly walked through Kennington and up Brixton Hill or Tulse Hill (using either Lambeth or Westminster bridges, Vauxhall bridge being then non-existent I concede it is unlikely he passed through Stockwell).

Not exactly a local. But he knew the 'hood. Or else the whole Beulah theory is wrong of course, and he went via the Elephant and down the Old Kent Rd.

[boohoo]

Arthur Rackham was born on South Lambeth Road and moved to Albert Square in Stockwell...

http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/rackham5.jpg

And Charlie Chaplin was born in Kennington....

[Dubversion]

who was the Crowley-related sidereal guy? he was from Kennington or so.

As did Servalan till she moved to NZ (apparently). Steve Lamacq lives there too.

[co-op]

Arthur Rackham was born on South Lambeth Road and moved to Albert Square in Stockwell...

.

Annie Besant used to live in Albert Square - first leader of the Indian Congress Party and founder of theosophy.

[Dubversion]

who was the Crowley-related sidereal guy? he was from Kennington or so.


remember now - Austin Osman Spare..

[Cowley]

We've got a few MP types down this way. Tim Eggar, the extremely unfamous tory Energy Minister used to live on Fentiman Rd. He's mostly famous locally for bullying the shit out of some school girl who picked a flower out of his front garden. Her Dad went round and gave him a smack in the face giving him a black eye which got loads of tabloid journalists digging around for what happened and the geezer ended up with a front page spread on the front of Today giving his side of the story and challenging Eggar to prosecute him for assault - he was face of the week in the pub I remember. I think everyone was a bit jealous at being able to take a shot at one of those wankers so publically and get away with it.


I was brought up round that way, well Dorset Road to be precise. Traditionally that area has always been a fave for MP's.

I suppose it has a lot to do with it's proximity to Westminster and excellent transport links.

You see quite a few actors/actresses round that way too, especially from the Bill/Casualty.

Not sure what it's like round there now...but back when the Fentiman Arms was refurbished into a Yuppie haunt, the place was infested with the aforementioned folks.

[Dubversion]

I was brought up round that way, well Dorset Road to be precise.

spent 5 years living on the corner of Dorset and Carroun Road. Weird area.. fairly rundown estate rubbing right up against some fairly flash areas. I guess that's true of lots of London, seemed pretty pronounced there though

[story]

Now William Blake ended up living in North Lambeth - it's local but only sort of. But I'd argue him as a passing local from when he lived more centrally in London since he used to walk down to Shoreham in Kent to see Samuel Palmer. Some have argued that when he refers to Beulah, or the Vale of Beulah, he was - as the Tate Gallery would have it in their exhibition notes to his drawings - referring to a metaphysical place, "the realm of the subconscious, the source of inspiration". To the proper south Londoner however he was obviously referring to Beulah Hill and Beulah Vale, just south of West Norwood. It's not the most direct route to Shoreham, but I think he must have walked that way for the fantastic view over London it offers. Whatever, he must have clearly walked through Kennington and up Brixton Hill or Tulse Hill (using either Lambeth or Westminster bridges, Vauxhall bridge being then non-existent I concede it is unlikely he passed through Stockwell).

Not exactly a local. But he knew the 'hood. Or else the whole Beulah theory is wrong of course, and he went via the Elephant and down the Old Kent Rd.



:cool:

I like this theory

[Cowley]

spent 5 years living on the corner of Dorset and Carroun Road. Weird area.. fairly rundown estate rubbing right up against some fairly flash areas. I guess that's true of lots of London, seemed pretty pronounced there though

It's kind of a no mands land area what with it being slap bang in the middle of Stockwell, Kennington & Vauxhall.

I agree with you regarding the divide, you have roads like Fentiman, Richborne Terrace & Heyford which have some really nice big houses and also some pretty nasty estates. That South Lambeth Estate on Fentiman use to be a bit nasty back in the 90's.

[ianw]

She's still local and playing at a local venue soon;)


Last I heard she was living in the south of France, and just popping back for the occasional Monade show.

[Dubversion]

yeh, that's where I was.. it wasn't too bad when I was there (roughly 2002 - 2005) but i know it used to be a lot worse..

[ianw]

Maxi Jazz is Brixton/Streatham, isn't he?

[nipsla]

Maxi Jazz is Brixton/Streatham, isn't he?

Don't know if he lives here but I sat at the table next to him in the Beer Garden at the Bug Bar a few years back so that's good enough for me :cool:

[ianw]

A quick search revealed:

"Maxi Jazz nació en Brixton y ahora vive en Streatham."
:)

eta: but wiki reckons he lives in West Norwood. I've met him a few times, and he's a nice guy.

[gaijingirl]

I think he lives in West Norwood because IIRC he did something like switch on their Christmas lights or summat a year or so ago as its most famous resident.
ETA - yeah a quick google reveals he did this 30 November 2006.

[Oswaldtwistle]

By the way, did Eddy Grant?

It doesn't look like it. http://www.caribzones.com/icerecordseddygrant.html would suggest he was born in Guyana (south america).

I wonder what his connection with 'Electric Avenue' is- if any?

Either way I'll bet it has made him a bob or three with Currys using it!

[Donna Ferentes]

It doesn't look like it. http://www.caribzones.com/icerecordseddygrant.html would suggest he was born in Guyana (south america).Yeah I knew that - what I didn't know was whether he lived in Brixton at all.

[Donna Ferentes]

"Maxi Jazz nació en Brixton y ahora vive en Streatham."
:)¿Quién es?

[tarannau]

It doesn't look like it. http://www.caribzones.com/icerecordseddygrant.html would suggest he was born in Guyana (south america).

I wonder what his connection with 'Electric Avenue' is- if any?

Either way I'll bet it has made him a bob or three with Currys using it!

He's Guyanese indeed - a good friend of my aunt's in Georgetown. My cousins call him Uncle Eddy. I know he's been to Brixton on more than a few occasions, but I don't think he's ever lived here

He went through a bit of a down patch and apparently returned home to Guyana to retire to some acclaim and attention, promisisng a little social and political involvement. And then he made a shitload of money from the re-release of Electric Ave and those ads and pissed off to the beaches of Barbados instead.

:mad: :D

[ianw]

¿Quién es?

Singer of Faithless.

[Donna Ferentes]

I'm none the wiser.

[co-op]

That South Lambeth Estate on Fentiman use to be a bit nasty back in the 90's.

I guess it's all down to what your own personal experience was, but because there were a lot of hard-to-lets on south Lambeth and Dorset estates I thought it was quite a funky place in the early 90s - plenty of young and/or creative types but not so precious that they feared to walk the mean streets of Stockwell. A couple of the local pubs (eg The Royal Albert) enjoyed mini-golden eras when they were busy and fun without being poncey and expensive (which it is now, and empty too most of the time from what I can see - I think the Fentiman Arms has collared the local upmarket crowd for itself).

I always used to think that estate up opposite Kennington Park actually on Kennington Park Road at the Oval seemed pretty rough - I saw trouble just about every time I went through the archway into it...never really had that down our ends.

[ianw]

A dance band. Jazz is known for his wordy streams of consciousness. He's more like a beat poet than an actual singer. Sometimes it works really well, sometimes it's a bit laughable, but he's generally a decent guy. Faithless themselves suffer from being a bit formulaic.

[co-op]

Oh yes and - how could we forget the great man so quickly? - John Major, his family moved in to Coldharbour Lane up between Loughborough Junction and Camberwell when he was a kid.

[Donna Ferentes]

Oh yes and - how could we forget the great man so quickly? - John MajorWe didn't, he's been done...

[co-op]

We didn't, he's been done...

:o

Oh well. What about John Major, has he been done?

[Andy the Don]

Anyone mention David Bowie although he was born & bred in Bromley I believe he lived in brixton for a while.

also Eddy Grant did he live in Brixton or just record a chart hit about one of it main thoroughfares..??

[Dubversion]

also Eddy Grant did he live in Brixton or just record a chart hit about one of it main thoroughfares..??

read the thread.

[Belushi]

well if we're counting Battersea, we can count Balham. And if we're counting Balham, just about every comedian for the last 20 years.

I used to live in the same block as Arthur Smith in Balham, most excitingly it had once been home to the great Mararet Rutherford.

[ianw]

Stewart Lee, Al Murray and a few others used to share a house in Tooting.

[Donna Ferentes]

read the thread.Well yeah but unless I've missed it nobody's actually said that he didn't live in Brixton, just that he was born elsewhere....

Stewart Lee, Al Murray and a few others used to share a house in Tooting.

....with hilarious consequences....

[drag0n]

Anyone mentioned adam and joe?
were they from brixton or did they just pretend to be?

[Dubversion]

Anyone mentioned adam and joe?
were they from brixton or did they just pretend to be?


their studio was, not sure they ever lived here. They were based in the enterprise centre next to what's now Halfords.

[ringo]

I was brought up round that way, well Dorset Road to be precise. Traditionally that area has always been a fave for MP's.

I suppose it has a lot to do with it's proximity to Westminster and excellent transport links.

You see quite a few actors/actresses round that way too, especially from the Bill/Casualty.

Not sure what it's like round there now...but back when the Fentiman Arms was refurbished into a Yuppie haunt, the place was infested with the aforementioned folks.

My mate lived on the estate on Dorset Road for a couple of years. His next door neighbour was a certifiably insane rasta who changed his name by deed poll to Haile Selassie, but I don't suppose he counts for this thread.

[corporate whore]

Paul McGann sometimes drinks in the Half Moon. It's very diificult to resist shouting 'perfumed ponce!' at him when he goes to the toilet..

Girls Aloud were shacked up in Herne Hill whilst being groomed for stardom. I never saw them in the Moon..

[hipipol]

http://www.iceposter.com/thumbs/G168820.jpg





She was my next door neighbour for years, now sadly axed from Corrie
Zaraah Abrahams be her name

[Dan U]

i saw Huw Edwards kicking about in West Dulwich loads before i moved out recently.

he has a fucking nice house :D

[tarannau]

their studio was, not sure they ever lived here. They were based in the enterprise centre next to what's now Halfords.

I thought they often used a very small room above the Body Shop, for the filming of the soft toys anyway. Rumoured to be a flat for one of them, but I'm reasonably certain that Adam used to be Stockwell based. No idea about Joe, but the number of times I saw his cycling about suggests he was pretty local.

[lang rabbie]

I used to live in the same block as Arthur Smith in Balham, most excitingly it had once been home to the great Mararet Rutherford.

She was definitely born in Balham, but I've been unable to trace the story of her living in that block to a source that doesn't rely on a single Wikipedia edit in October 2006.

[Cowley]

She was my next door neighbour for years, now sadly axed from Corrie
Zaraah Abrahams be her name


She's very easy on the eye, she is . ;)