Brixton Wave 2017 - 2018

[TopCat]

Well looking at the detail, it becomes clear how Ros and chums plan to monetise this event for themselves.
Check the objectives, the bit about the lasting legacy for Wave, the setting up of a social enterprise (with grant money coming in) with no doubt Ros as CEO on a fat salary surrounded by newly appointed paid chums.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well looking at the detail, it becomes clear how Ros and chums plan to monetise this event for themselves.
Check the objectives, the bit about the lasting legacy for Wave, the setting up of a social enterprise (with grant money coming in) with no doubt Ros as CEO on a fat salary surrounded by newly appointed paid chums.

snouts in the trough

 

[wurlycurly]

Oh and no fucking reggae

Avocado burger, lovingly hand-glazed with a Reggae-Reggae sauce reduction. £18.99 (or £15 with the app).

 

[sealion]

Avocado burger, lovingly hand-glazed with a Reggae-Reggae sauce reduction. £18.99 (or £15 with the app).

Why not go extra edgy and eat it in a fish tank ??? Unique and yours to devour for only £30.

 

[drachir]

What an absolute joke, surely even Henries aren't going to be interested in this bollocks?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Brixton Wave bye bye....

 

[editor]

Every last thing that made Brixton unique and actually "vibrant" is being replaced by commercial, entrepreneurial, foodie, upmarket shite for the Moneyed Bland Set. Fuck shopping festivals to put Brixton as a 'destination'. Fuck making Brixton another crap Camden.

 

[Winot]

Brixton Wave bye bye....

Not waving but drowning

 

[snowy_again]

Every last thing that made Brixton unique and actually "vibrant" is being replaced by commercial, entrepreneurial, foodie, upmarket shite for the Moneyed Bland Set. Fuck shopping festivals to put Brixton as a 'destination'. Fuck making Brixton another crap Camden.

Where is Roz in all of this? I thought she was the one with the masters degree in Community Development?

 

[TopCat]

Where is Roz in all of this? I thought she was the one with the masters degree in Community Development?

Ros has positioned herself firmly at the forefront of a new acceptable blackness in Brixton (acceptable to the authorities that is). Ensure your demands are only about shopping and hey presto, a plum job.

 

[David Clapson]

Ros' expertise in shopping is a sight to behold. At Tesco there was one vacant self-service till. But nobody could use it because Ros had sent one of her children ahead to reserve it for her. As she ambled slowly past the queue of bemused, frustrated shoppers, the look of disdain and entitlement on her face told you everything you need to know about her commitment to the community. She can't or won't contemplate anything except her own self-interest.

 

[editor]

From this:

To:

From a community street party to a consumerist "shopping experiences" with shitty fucking "tasting menus".

 

[editor]

Fuck me they're incompetent at social media. One tweet. Hashtags empty. FB page empty.

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[sealion]

If you wanted to hire a pitch this was the blurb,,
Monies going to Metro sports foundation which is run by METRO SPORTS FOUNDATION LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)

 

[isvicthere?]

It's all a long way from Reclaim the Streets, c.1999.

 

[editor]

It's all a long way from Reclaim the Streets, c.1999.

No wanky foodie and shopping apps required...

Brixton Reclaim The Streets party – archive photos and video footage, 6th June 1998

 

[TopCat]

It's all a long way from Reclaim the Streets, c.1999.

It would not take much to have our Sunday anyway. RTS is a great example. I loved that day.

 

[editor]

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Can't we harness the power of the Internet to get a sound system and cause some dancing obstruction that weekend anyway?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Why waste a good sound system on a shopaholic festival...

 

[editor]

Why waste a good sound system on a shopaholic festival...

I'm not sure you'd even notice if this 'festival' is taking place seeing as it primarily seems to be about encouraging tourists to come in and shop and fill their faces with trendy food. Like they already do, in vast numbers.

I wrote to the person who is supposed to creating this pointless shopping app yesterday to ask when it might see the light of day. No reply. I assume that businesses who don't fork out to get involved will be excluded from this app but I doubt if it's going to make any difference. Who the fuck downloads an app these days for such a small event?

And that the fuck does "destination of choice" mean anyway?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

It's all a load of bollocks
...and bollocks to it all....

 

[editor]

A reminder of the messy end of Splash.

The fuckers still haven't credited me for their front page photo which they stole.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Well looking at the detail, it becomes clear how Ros and chums plan to monetise this event for themselves.
Check the objectives, the bit about the lasting legacy for Wave, the setting up of a social enterprise (with grant money coming in) with no doubt Ros as CEO on a fat salary surrounded by newly appointed paid chums.

Again.

 

[ViolentPanda]

If you wanted to hire a pitch this was the blurb,,
Monies going to Metro sports foundation which is run by METRO SPORTS FOUNDATION LIMITED - Officers (free information from Companies House)

So all the money flows back to Ros Griffiths? Not cool.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Why waste a good sound system on a shopaholic festival...

Because it would scare those here for the "cultural tourism"?

 

[editor]

The transition from the community celebration of Brixton Splash to the neutered, consumerist, tourist-luring Brixton Wave surely stands as a perfect metaphor to what has happened to Brixton in recent years.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The transition from the community celebration of Brixton Splash to the neutered, consumerist, tourist-luring Brixton Wave surely stands as a perfect metaphor to what has happened to Brixton in recent years.

Sadly true.
Also sad that someone who puts herself forward constantly as a "community leader" (although I've heard some more pungent epithets from the people she claims to represent), appears to frequently modify her position in order to take advantage of the new (Town Hall) reality.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This is the blandification - the very real white-washing - of Brixtonian culture. That a supposed community leader is complicit in this, is nauseating.

 

[Gramsci]

Brixton Wave appears to be all about Brixton as a "foodie" destination. This does nothing for those business who aren't eateries. The kind of shops ordinary Joe uses.

 

[Gramsci]

At least Splash was cheap festival for locals. I can't see Wave as having any relevance to the residents of the Loughborough Estate near me.