hoxton/shoreditch: classic or dud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsE-rWC8Lg8

looooooooooooooooooooool fight the power

20 years after the poll tax riots we have... the American Apparel riot.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these rummage sales that all men may one day own a £12 hoodie."

One day? Just go to TK Maxx...

what gets me angry is not the mental that is jumping over the car, it's the crowd who are too eager to whoop and cheer while filming the thing on their iphones so that they can put on their blogs..

this all must mean something which can be summarised in a sardonic messageboard post.

^^^^^^lol

Cheap clothes for chavs , broken britain , fighting over clothes ?
Sad sad day .

Don't think they were actually fighting over clothes were they though? From what I've read they were objecting to being arbitrarily stopped and searched.

A permanent home for the American Apparel rummage riots: http://www.boxpark.co.uk

http://www.boxpark.co.uk/images/skyline3.jpg

Wasn't sure which thread to post it to, it sounds like a treat though
http://www.breakmyfall.co.uk/

Liza (Kat Redstone) hovers precariously between change and self-destruction, between leaving her failing relationship with girlfriend Sally and finding success with their band, Blanket. Sally (Sophie Anderson) works nights in a dead end job, clings to her fantasies of a better life and ignores the chaos around her. Vin (Kai Brandon Ly) works as a rent boy, is secretly in love with Sally and in denial about everything else. Jamie (Collin Clay Chace) works nights in a gay cabaret bar, but longs to break free of his friends and their drug-infested dramas and settle down with a nice man. In the three days leading up to Liza’s 25th birthday things finally come to a head between Liza and Sally. After a failed birthday dinner, the four friends are plunged into emotional meltdown at an illegal rave and by the end of the night there’s no going back to how things were.

Blanket!

that was what really made it extra special. Also what happened at the "failed birthday dinner"? I'm guessing some wrangling over splitting up the bill.

i feel like that blurb was invented to make people on messageboards (not this one) post "fucking ironic twats."

"no doubt full of stupid haircuts"

etc

eg comment is free

I rose to the bait, but it does read like something that Nathan Barley might have pitched, or Attachments/ Metrosexuals miniseries c. 2000.

oh yeah i agree it sounds terrible.

Sally (Sophie Anderson) works nights in a dead end job, clings to her fantasies of a better life and ignores the chaos around her

guardian soulmates profile

is the singer in 'Blanket' supposed to look exactly like Tracy Thorn

i want to see this

omg i think that is kat redstone who was a few years above me in school-- when i was a teenager i thought she was the coolest person in the entire world. (i kind of still do) (i really want to see this film but am concerned that i might FAINT)

from looking at the FB page for the film they seem to be mainly farming it out to queer cinema fests and the like? Obv that and "effing hipsters" aren't mutually exclusive demographics but it suggests it maybe comes from a place that isn't entirely... privileged edginess or some strawman like that

also they put Wetdog on the soundtrack, Wetdog are band good

^ this is true, Wetdog unexpectedly good support band to someone or other last year

"Topman General Store", the Oxford Street-isation of E1 continues.

Whereabouts?

Commercial Street.

As the official site says:

Furnished throughout with personal finds the space will act as both a social hub and fashion destination in the heart of the local community.

I can deal with Topman Premium or whatever but can Brick Lane just disappear please.

Knew it'd be commercial St. Agreed mmm, btw, brick lane is a fucking dump. Walked by Rough trade (and surrounding shit) one sat night about six months back and it was the roughest atmosphere i've ever seen in London, fights starting all around etc.

I like the mod shop on brick lane. the south end of brick lane is great for lunch during the day. but yeah the whole vibe bar / truman brewery nexus should get lost and not come back

A friend of mine lives right in there

I rarely head down that corner of London at the weekends anymore. When I first moved down here, I used to live about 10 mins walk from RTE, and would go there at about 9pm after afterwork drinks and do some drunk CD shopping.

However, the last two times I've had the misfortune to go there at the weekends, it just felt like being out in Soho. I guess being near a major train station was probably a part of its downfall in the end.

being so close to the City doesn't help either - lots of lesser functionaries in suits doing shots. i'm never going to understand why people over the age of 20 do shots.

Sometimes you just get caught up in things, people end up just getting them for you.

It's weird because Shoreditch is now really accessible for me on a weekend but I rarely want to go into any of the bars there. I've started to feel nostalgic for the good old days of Soho drinking.

some people just enjoy getting violently ill

shots are definitely things that inexplicably happen to you rather than things you actively get

they always seem to be sambuca

Sambucca is like champagne, I've drunk a fair amount of it in my time but I don't think I've ever actually bought any for myself.

I still like the south end of Brick Lane, although food-wise Whitechapel is so much better. Anywhere past the brewery is terrible though, it's like all the character has been sucked out of it, also where did all the Bangladeshi people go?

Who lives there now?

i live nearby and yeah brick lane especially the brewery area is unbearable at the weekends

i went to rough trade east to buy a pair of headphones a few saturdays ago and this was at like 7pm and that big chill bar was full of sinister-looking people gurning

usually get a shot in if i turn up late and need to catch up, idk

definitely feeling the soho revival vibe

black sambucca is the very worst