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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - November 2017

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Happy to report completely mixed experience: he rescued a much loved handbag with an ingenious, cheap and durable repair, then ruined a much loved pair of shoes with a complete bodge-up of a resoling job which left them leakier and uglier than they were before. So ... ymmv. Overall I think he's a Good Thing.
 
editor said:
Why go out of your way to dish the dirt on this guy by reposting a negative review from elsewhere from two years ago?

There's plenty of people - including myself - who have been very pleased with his work.
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You reposted it! I hadn't even seen it until you reposted the link above.

It was literally you who went out of your way to find an old article from two years ago.
 
alcopop said:
You reposted it! I hadn't even seen it until you reposted the link above.

It was literally you who went out of your way to find an old article from two years ago.
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I reposted a link to the article which was positive about his work- NOT the full text of the one person slagging him off. :facepalm::rolleyes:
 
editor said:
I reposted a link to the article which was positive about his work- NOT the full text of the one person slagging him off. :facepalm::rolleyes:
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And I was replying to a question from teuchter asking about bad reviews of him.

Judging by other people's experiences it does seem that his work is rather hit and miss though.
 
He made a bag strap out of a belt. That is some hipster shit right there. Renovating vintage clothes and accessories.

Ahead of his time. That customer just wasn't ready for the new reality.

Jay is the bridge taking us to the new world.

He'll be making leather jackets out of discarded Dr Martens before you know it.

"I just wanted my boots fixed"

"fuck you, you have a new jacket.....fucking ingrate....get outta my shop.....you'll wanna fucking beard trim next.....go, get out, never darken my vision for the new reality again"
 
editor said:
And just to reiterate: the guy is a true craftsman. he can create a pair of shoes from scratch. He did a wonderful job repairing a pair of shoes that had been deemed totally unrepairable. I hope he stays there until he chooses to retire as he's been of great service to the area.
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Yes I second that. He does an excellent job at a very reasonable price. And he's a very friendly man too in my opinion.
I don't know of other place I could get my shoes heeled for £5. He was closed for a fair while due to an operation on his spine. I was really worried he wouldn't come back.
 
Anyone else want to dig up old negative reviews of long-term independent Brixton businesses because that's apparently the thing here now? Let's put the boot in!

:facepalm::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
xsunnysuex said:
Yes I second that. He does an excellent job at a very reasonable price. And he's a very friendly man too in my opinion.
I don't know of other place I could get my shoes heeled for £5. He was closed for a fair while due to an operation on his spine. I was really worried he wouldn't come back.
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Snap - he's saved many of my boots over the years one pair felt like Triggers broom in fools and horses- soles , heels and zips replaced several times over. He's a great Brixton character but does tell me off for letting the heels get so bad!! I was also glad to see him back
 
When Brixton changes for good ( not if but unfortunately when ! ) people will talk about the lost Characters we had so make most while they’re still in business before Lambeth / Network Rail helped by Brixton BID get their way i.e an open air Westfield !!
 
Never used Jay's services (have been going to the cobblers near the junction in camberwell who are also really good and also £5 for new soles) but next time the trusty boots need a fix will be asking him instead.
Glad to see how many of you are re-soulers, there must be a massive pressure on due to throwaway cheap shoes and the rise of the dreaded trainer.
 
Referring to people as "characters" always makes me cringe; it's a patronising-middle-class type thing to say and indicates that these businesses/people are valued on an aesthetic basis rather than because they provide a useful service.

To be clear though, I'd certainly agree that it would be hugely to Brixton's detriment if reliance arcade were lost to mainstream development.
 
teuchter said:
Referring to people as "characters" always makes me cringe; it's a patronising-middle-class type thing to say and indicates that these businesses/people are valued on an aesthetic basis rather than because they provide a useful service.

To be clear though, I'd certainly agree that it would be hugely to Brixton's detriment if reliance arcade were lost to mainstream development.
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The reverse is the case. It's patronising middle class thing to see that working class people dont have an aesthetic sense.

There are working class people I work with who miss these shops with "characters". Who don't like the way central London is pushing these "characters" out.
 
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alcopop said:
And I was replying to a question from teuchter asking about bad reviews of him.

Judging by other people's experiences it does seem that his work is rather hit and miss though.
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The Brixton Buzz article you posted up has four comments. Three positive and one negative. So if we are to take this as representative sample three quarters are positive. So how is his work hit or miss?
 
teuchter said:
It would simply be nuts to say that "working class people don't have an aesthetic sense".
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What I'm saying as someone who actually does a working class job and spend most of my time with the working class people your post is more than annoying.

It's not patronising to support "characters". Nor is it middle class.
 
Gramsci said:
The Brixton Buzz article you posted up has four comments. Three positive and one negative. So if we are to take this as representative sample three quarters are positive. So how is his work hit or miss?
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A 25% rate of failure is hit and miss in my book. In fact, I wouldnt use a cobbler with those odds. You'd get better results if you used pos/neg from the U75 thread
 
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Gramsci said:
What I'm saying as someone who actually does a working class job and spend most of my time with the working class people your post is more than annoying.

It's not patronising to support "characters". Nor is it middle class.
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As someone who spends much of my time with the middle class people - I hear people talking about "characters" in a way that makes me cringe and which I find patronising. That's my opinion.

What would you feel like if people described you as a "character"? Maybe you'd be ok with it, I don't know.

And I didn't say it was "patronising to support 'characters'". I said I thought it was patronising to refer to people as 'characters'.
 
Jesus FFS. Regular poster puts up positive comment about longstanding local business. Ed posts up old article about said longstanding local business and it ends up starting November like October ended.

Truly nauseating.
 
Ignoring, of course, the fact the first few post before that were people continuing the October beef.
 
SpamMisery said:
A 25% rate of failure is hit and miss in my book. In fact, I wouldnt use a cobbler with those odds. You'd get better results if you used pos/neg from the U75 thread
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Ya because with a 25% hit rate if you bring in 2 pairs of shoes then 1 shoe will get fucked up. This means that a pair of shoes is fucked. You can always put the non fucked shoe aside in case you break your leg and have to go in crutches but that’s no real comfort.
 
The past few months the Brixton thread has been pretty boring tbh - the same very small number of people posting the majority of the material and agreeing with each other. And largely just links to another website.
 
I dont have a problem with them particularly. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. But intentional misdirection is just not cricket. You claimed that the discussions on Jay the cobbler allowed for the continuation of last months argument. Not true; the posts before Jay was introduced were already a continuation.
 
Gramsci said:
If you've a problem with the first posts on this thread quote the posts and take issue with them.
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This one was clearly a provocation:

Nanker Phelge said:
He's the old reality....we're not having any of that here.....put his bloody rent up....make him adapt......make him make sandwiches....shoe sandwiches.....freshly cut loafers
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- implying for example that people had been calling for people's rent to be increased, or that people wanted to get rid of existing businesses.
Neither of which things had been said.
 
SpamMisery said:
I dont have a problem with them particularly. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. But intentional misdirection is just not cricket. You claimed that the discussions on Jay the cobbler allowed for the continuation of last months argument. Not true; the posts before Jay was introduced were already a continuation.
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Wrong. You and some posters got going after Ed put up link to his article on the cobbler.

I never used the word continuation.
 
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