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How do you feel about going it alone?

Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago 12 responses

If you say you want to meet new people, it’s guaranteed that well-meaning friends and relatives will tell you to take up a new pastime. But what if your preferred pastime is going to the pub? And you find people with hobbies slightly unnerving? We are two friends from south London with what we think is a wi...

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What is this 'shrine' in Brixton?

Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago 0 responses

I live in Brixton and have always puzzled about something, but am sure someone must know my answer. On the side of the Ritzy which is on Coldharbour Lane there is a small colourful like shrine thing in the wall. Has anyone else seen it? Does anyone know why it is there? Bablet

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Do you like banging techno?

Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 0 responses

If any of you like a bit of quality banging techno, I’d definitely recommend Club 414 in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton. I had me a quality 30th there a couple of weeks ago. Left at 4am but it goes on until 6am, ears had stopped ringing come Wednesday… pedal power

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Does anyone else think Brixton's gone to the dogs?

Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 0 responses

Years ago in Brixton it didn’t matter who you were, we were all in it together. It was the outside world’s attitudes that were negative to Brixton, but we knew it was great so fuck them. A town of marginals, political dissenters, artists and, worst of all for middle England, lots of black people live the...

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What’s a pseudo-intellectual gay boy looking for some conversation to do?

Posted by AdamT about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 14 responses

I recently had quite the misadventure in Soho. I went looking for a gay club that didn’t fulfil the sexed-up stereotypes to no avail. Where can a gay twenty-something go when he’s more interested in stimulating conversation than dance floor copulation?

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Am Dram: the lifeblood of the solipsist

Posted by devilskitchen about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 3 responses

Your humble Devil has been known to engage in amateur dramatics in various roles – acting, directing, producing, teching, that sort of rubbish. Despite having been involved in hundreds – quite literally; no, really – of shows over my ten years in Edinburgh and having vowed to just leave it the fuck alone for a while...

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Where can I park in Brixton?

Posted by Ben 11 months ago
Last active 11 months ago 3 responses

I’m off to see the Manics at Brixton Academy on Wednesday, and was wondering if anyone knew a good place to park. Preferably where I won’t get ripped of by NCP or come back to find my car on a pile of bricks.

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Nine Inch Nails at Brixton - 2 tickets available

Posted by iSleepDiagonal about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 1 response

Hello – I’ve got two tickets for sale to see Nine Inch Nails on Saturday March 10 at the Brixton Academy. They’re downstairs stalls standing tickets. I can’t go any more, and don’t want to let the touts get their hands on them! I can post them or meet up somewhere handy to exchange. ...

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Does anyone know anything about 'the wheelie man'?

Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago 3 responses

Those of you who live near Brixton Hill might be aware of the phenomenon known as ‘the wheelie man’. This is a bloke who basically performs a wheelie on his mountain bike, very fast and with scant regard for his own safety, down what would appear to be the entire length of the hill. We used to see him...

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Did you hear the one about the man urinating on the tube seat?

Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 1 response

After living in London for a few years I thought I was pretty unshockable. That’s until this morning. I was reaping the benefits of having taken the morning off work, and consequently mooched my way up to Brixton tube station at about 1pm instead of the standard 8.30am in the morning. I went to take a seat ...

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Anyone fancy a match of Skunk Cricket?

Posted by Popey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 13 responses

I play skunk cricket. It’s a great game. I play on Brixton road, it’s pretty simple – you count the number of times people say “Skunk” to you as you walk down the road between the Library and Brixton tube. I average 4 per walk, though do occasionally manage a six. If you don’t...

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Brixton curfew?

Posted by comradem about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 15 responses

The Arcade Fire are at the moment officially the world’s best rock band, and anyone who saw them any of the last three nights at Brixton A will surely agree. However, what is up with the short sets at same venue? The AF orchestra cut one of their songs in half and played one in its fast-tempo incantation. I ...

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Blind woman versus beggar, who wins?

Posted by Popey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 7 responses

So I wanted to share this with you guys… I was walking down Brixton Rd today and was behind a woman with a white stick, full on tappy action, and there was a bloke beggin between two cashline machines on the north side. She went straight at him and raised her stick just as she got up to him so it landed on th...

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Fight the high cost of soft drinks

Posted by pottytime about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 30 responses

Now that I am having to go on the wagon, possibly for a very long time, I know that I am going to get extremely cross at the prices pubs charge for soft drinks. I find this extremely irksome as pubs are always complaining how much duty etc they have to pay on alcoholic drinks and yet soft drinks are rarely much chea...

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Local London meetups

Posted by Jow about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 3 responses

I have started some local meetups for budding entrepreneurs, creative people, innovators and activists to get together to talk about ideas. It’s a friendly place to share a drink with other interesting people and get inspired. If you’ve got a plan to develop an ethical business, write a book, set up a we...

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SHOOT BRIXTON

Posted by kaykay about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 0 responses

We’re baaack! Shoot Brixton (controversial name I know, but we really do concentrate capturing the positive side of any community in which we hold events) happens THIS SATURDAY. This will be the last public photography treasure hunt that we hold in 2007. The leaves are turning and it’s just getting too c...

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BAD SCIENCE, HEADJAM, DJ MULLY, SCHEME BOY, QUEENS ENGLISH

Posted by MrHovis about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 10 responses

{friday, 7th dec} – needleandthreads big-ass chrimbo shindiggery.. @Jamm Bar, 261 Brixton Road.. 8pm till 4am, £6/£5 NUS, or £4 before 9pm! Room One.. the mighty BAD SCIENCE are headlining this festive knees up, and will be bringing their usual dance-floor wrecking dubfunk-skahop-ery, frontman DISRAELI&#...

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Why does Quentin Tarrantino have really ugly fans?

Posted by Popey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 5 responses

I just walked past the Ritzy cinema where tonight at 7.30 they are having the premier of Death Proof followed by a Q&A with Quentin himself. It’s sold out for months so don’t bother going down, unless it’s to see him walk 12 feet from his limo to the front door. It is now 2 hours before the f...

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The Brixton Miniskirted Irish Dancing Pensioner for Peace - caught him yet?

Posted by Popey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 4 responses

In the old days of the LBL newsletter contributors mostly talked about local wierdos – the Saints or Sinners guy, people riding bikes with ghetto blasters attached playing fog horns etc… and this era seems to have passed. Hence this post. There is a fantastic old irish chap who, dressed in saffron ki...

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Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out

Posted by MrHovis
Took place 20:00 on 1st Feb at jamm bar
1 person attending, 2 responses

Needleandthread presents… {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. @ JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road.. running 8pm-4am, £4 before 9pm, (afterwards its £6 / £5 with flyer, or NUS).. ~~~~~~~~~~ on friday first of feb, we have; THE NEEDLEANDTHREAD LIVE AND WELL ROOM ExCentral Tempest ~ conscious lyri...

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