Why do you like Brixton?

[JTG]

Speaking as an outsider

It's the only place in London I've ever been and liked straight away (probably down to going there with someone who knows it well and likes it).

Sod it, it's the only place in London I've been to and liked full stop.

I like it because it reminds me of home (Bristol), particularly north-central Bristol - the best bit!

Only been there a few times but it seems to me that much of what's been said on this thread is true - which maybe includes hatboy's pov, dunno, don't know it well enough to comment.

There you go, for what it's worth.

 

[Errol's son]

Major concert venue? Pub concert venue? (and I don't mean somewhere where pub rock bands play every so often, but a place where a dedicated promoter puts on new music). Tube station?



Where do you live fanta?

We have the arch.. and several clubs... Bar Storey can put a live band on if needs be... We have the ELL coming and a tram... Just lacking a concert hall, but one of them is just down the road in Brixton anyway...

 

[editor]

I feel there's more division between rich and poor all over London and it is bad here too.

When hasn't it been that way?

 

[Crispy]

Sod it, it's the only place in London I've been to and liked full stop.

I like it because it reminds me of home (Bristol), particularly north-central Bristol - the best bit!

Yes!

Brixton is like Gloucester road with added Pizzazz

(whatever pizzazz is. make your own definition)

But yeah, it's definitley got that 'community' spirit, where you know that most of the poeple you make eye contact with are on the same wavelength as you. Yeah there's crime, but it only affects the obvious outsiders looing for some 'edginess' to spice up their lives.

I think I've used up my ' mark quota, so that's that for now...

 

[JTG]

That's it innit Crispy. I saw Brixton and it was somewhat like St Pauls/Kingsdown/Montpellier. I like this bit of town (why I just moved here innit) so I was bound to like Brixton.

Same with crime etc, yes it happens but it's OK if you keep your wits about you and it keeps the rent down. Some people seem to think I live in the West Country equivalent of Dodge City or summat

 

[madshadow]

....Or a decent record shop that sells a mix of music...

Where is that decent record shop that sells a mix of music? Btw, Ive always wondered if Reckless or Notting Hill exchange or any other independent chain is ever gonna make an attempt of running a business in Brixton... Apparently last time exchange tried on Acre Lane in 93-94 they got kicked out by yardies...

 

[IntoStella]

Brixton is like Gloucester road with added Pizzazz

If Brixton is Gloucester Road then Anna Key must be Rumpole. Which makes me She Who Must be Obeyed, I guess.

Pizzazz -- portmanteau word for a pizza followed by a siesta.

 

[Pie 1]

I lke Brixton because I've been sitting at my desk this morning with the windows open(stop right there IS) and a steel band has been playing away. They're on the corner by the post office and sound lovely.

 

[IntoStella]

(stop right there IS)

Alas, I'm in Hammersmith, so I can't get down the Beehive in time for a hearty lunchtime portion of fish and sprout pie.

But I could phone up Anna Key and send him down instead.

 

[clandestino]

Brixton is like Gloucester road with added Pizzazz

except, alas, it could do with two things i remember fondly about gloucester road.

the pizzeria on the corner of elton road
and the second hand record shop down towards the railway bridge.

adrienne did her phd in bristol and i went down every weekend. friday nights at the pizza place, saturday lunch/afternoon at the record shop and the cafe next to it.

happy days.

 

[Miss Orbit]

Things I love about Brixton:

The Country Show ("Hold an owl - £1!", etc.)

It's a real place, not just a road (I've lived in New Cross, nuff said)

Old guys who say, "Marnin', princess," when I'm off to work

Best looking women in London (it's a blinkin' catwalk out there!)

Summers in Brockwell Park (but not the chancey harasstafarians who offer to join me on my blanket)

It's not Camden (surely London's most depressingly overrated area?)

 

[hatboy]

I have mixed feelings about it, not all positive. It's got some great things and some great people. It's also got problems that are tiring and worrying. (And I don't mean anything cliched and Daily Mailish, but I do mean failings in Lambeth council, the sadness of people damaged by drink and drugs and anger and disengagement of much young people from here).