Donna Ferentes
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¿Quién es?ianw said:"Maxi Jazz nació en Brixton y ahora vive en Streatham."
Famous Locals Past and Present
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Oswaldtwistle said:
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.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Donna Ferentes said:
Singer of Faithless.
Donna Ferentes
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I'm none the wiser.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Cowley said:
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.
clandestino
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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.
Donna Ferentes
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We didn't, he's been done...co-op said:
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
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..??
also Eddy Grant did he live in Brixton or just record a chart hit about one of it main thoroughfares..??
Andy the Don said:
read the thread.
clandestino
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Stewart Lee, Al Murray and a few others used to share a house in Tooting.
Donna Ferentes
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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....Dubversion said:
ianw said:
....with hilarious consequences....
drag0n said:
their studio was, not sure they ever lived here. They were based in the enterprise centre next to what's now Halfords.
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
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..
Girls Aloud were shacked up in Herne Hill whilst being groomed for stardom. I never saw them in the Moon..
Dubversion said:
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
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Belushi said:
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.
