Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Bobby Onion yesterday:
Index Books to close :(
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lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Brixton Academy website said:
Is this true
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
lang rabbie said:Is this true
Why would the three of them be in London at the same time? Surely they would have done the video ages before the film came out over here, if it was that they were attending the films premiere. It seems unlikely. But if any one would know then surely the Academy themselves would.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Why not?PacificOcean said:
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
Just to retrack this (nonetheless rather interesting) thread, it seems as if Index themselves think the rampant drug dealing is a factor in their business failure.
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.u...alers-are-scaring-people-away--name_page.html
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.u...alers-are-scaring-people-away--name_page.html
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
hendo said:
Last Saturday at 4pm, I suspect that the market traders' own vans lining Electric Avenue pretty effectively blocked the line of sight of several CCTV cameras.
lang rabbie said:
That is true, but now the market stalls have been rearranged and the dustcart removed the market is much clearer for most of the day. There's alot less room for sketchyness.
The main problem is the blind spot directly underneith the CCTV. The market traders directly underneith there have continuous problems (abuse, theft, customers scared off). I was talking one of the Fruit and Veg guys at the weekend - he's been there 50 years (!) and hasnt seen it this bad.
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
She said it would hopefully be very close to where they are currently were but was waiting for it to be confirmed.Ms T said:
According to the #1 result in the google image search, thisOrang Utan said:
is Bobby Onion.
But being a goat, and one with good eatin' on him to boot, he would be very foolish indeed to venture anywhere near Brixton.
He's a fine looking goat, and no mistake!poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
I think this shit is seriously in danger of killing Brixton off as a functioning community if it's allowed to go on like this much longer.memespring said:
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
not so sure ... is it possible this is just a teensy bit scaremongering in the wrong direction ... see this from the linked report:
"John Gordon, secretary of the Brixton Street Traders' Association, said: "The issues are drug dealers and parking...
If I couldn't go on foot/ public transport into Brixton centre I might not bother either, the wardens are on a gung ho crusade and I don't much fancy fighting them .... daily abuse, threats and occasional violence from other locals has toughened them up a LOT ...
truly sucks that index is going but I have to admit I was not a particularly loyal customer - liked it but didn't buy enough there. my name is trabuquera and in capitulating to amazon's filthy globalised lures i added to the slow death of independent retailers in my neighbourhood...
"John Gordon, secretary of the Brixton Street Traders' Association, said: "The issues are drug dealers and parking...
If I couldn't go on foot/ public transport into Brixton centre I might not bother either, the wardens are on a gung ho crusade and I don't much fancy fighting them .... daily abuse, threats and occasional violence from other locals has toughened them up a LOT ...
truly sucks that index is going but I have to admit I was not a particularly loyal customer - liked it but didn't buy enough there. my name is trabuquera and in capitulating to amazon's filthy globalised lures i added to the slow death of independent retailers in my neighbourhood...
I can well believe it. I REALLY pity the poor bastards who have to patrol Rushcroft Road.Bob said:I was on a bus the other day where a Lambeth traffic warden told the bus driver he'd had a knife put to his throat by an irate driver the other day.
Any guesses on what it might become?
aurora green
Tectonic
Is it really? How can it be that Brixton can support yet another fish market but not a bookshop?
aurora green
Tectonic
or a wool shop?
reNnIe said:how is a pizza place a change of use and a smelly fish joint NOT? How many bleedin stinking fish markets do we need in Brixton?
The second you start heating/preparing food (even a tea & coffee I think) it's a change of use category. Here's hoping it wont be too stinky.
citydreams
on the road again
tarannau said:
One where you can just walk past and get a nice-a-slice-a-pizza
edit: I wan't to be Joey from friends
citydreams said:One where you can just walk past and get a nice-a-slice-a-pizza
exactly! ecco has limited opening hours. and the pizza chains are crap. neon is overpriced wank and antlantico feels like being in a fish bowl.
How about a nice cafe then? sort of like a mini lounge?
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Or better still, persuade the Lounge to start doing pizzareNnIe said:
citydreams said:One where you can just walk past and get a nice-a-slice-a-pizza
edit: I wan't to be Joey from friends
How many places in London are like that or have the turnover to keep turning over decent pizza? The other examples tend to be those greasy indescribable things served near Camden market or from a Pizza hut counter - yuk!
And besides, would you really want to grab a tasty slice in the bustle of a working market. It's not the prettiest place to eat - hardly an Italian piazza to eat your pizza in is it?
Pizzas are so 80s anyway. Overpriced bits of poncey cheese on toast, with some of the highest GPAs in the catering industry.
Got to admit I thought the pizzas in Neon were ok, albeit on one taste, and the recent (1/2 price) deals they keep running make them pretty darn cheap. I've never eaten them in Atlantico but the food always looks alright. In total that's still 3 respectable authentic style Italian pizza places in the centre of Brixton, all within a few mins walk. Thankfully there's nowhere really serving those extra-grease pan US versions.
