Your only free community newspaper WIN: SIGNED COOKBOOK CRESSINGHAM GARDENS Brixton Village Recipes p22 All smiles for Charles p17 Edition 23 FREE July 2014 Celebration time Inside: Country Show is set to mark 40 years of summer fun in spectacular style South London is gearing up for Roots Day on Sunday kicks off its biggest event of the year, as the with powerful, potent Black Roots Lambeth Country Show celebrates from Bristol. Ex-Specials member its 40th anniversary this month. and Brixton resident Jerry Dammers More than 150,000 revellers of selects his favourite tunes from ART OUTSIDE: From Tube train all ages are expected to descend on the last 40 years and plays a special Brockwell Park for the bash on July Nelson Mandela tribute. graffiti to Water Lane watercolours, 19 and 20. To round things off, the icing on your guide to this year’s fabulous The two-day festival, open from the 40th birthday cake will be Aswad Urban Art fair. What’s on, p24 11am until 7pm on Saturday and - representing 40 years of British Sunday, will see the usual mix of reggae music and playing all their animals, rural pursuits, reggae and favourite hits. legendary cider. Visitors can also take in a spot of Lambeth council leader Lib Peck horse jousting or camel-racing, as said: “The Country Show really is the well as the ever-popular vegetable highlight of the year. sculpture competition, horticulture “It attracts a huge variety of people displays and some of South London’s to Lambeth from all over London finest street food. and is a great way to celebrate the The council has asked for diversity and welcoming nature of donations to support the event. For a our wonderful borough.” full line-up and interviews and more Music-wise, this year they’ve details visit www.brixtonblog.com. pulled out all the stops with the live line-up. Saturday sees Afro-beat 40 years of the Lambeth Country funksters Yaaba Funk; premier live Show in posters, p11. drum and bass act NZ Shapeshifter, followed by USA R & B dance diva Right: A performer thanks the Jocelyn Brown. crowds at last year’s show WE MEAN BUSINESS: A four-page pull-out and keep section from the Brixton BID, shining the light on www.brixtonblog.com @brixtonblog some ace local traders... p13-16 2 Brixton Bugle July 2014 News www.brixtonblog.com The Brixton Bugle & College stalemate as strike Thumb amputated BrixtonBlog.com are edited A woman had to have her in Brixton by Zoe Jewell and thumb amputated after she Tim Dickens. was attacked with a metal bar enters second bitter month outside her Brixton home. Both the website and BY TIM DICKENS The victim was sweeping dust from in front of her newspaper are published by a An indefinite strike by lecturers and not-for-profit house, in Corrance Road, staff at Lambeth College has entered on May 21, when it upset a community organisation. It’s its fourth week. passer-by. run by a committed team of Members of the University and The attacker then picked people from Brixton. Colleges Union (UCU), supported up the bar and hit the wom- by members of Unison, have walked an once on the hand, before Brixton Blog and Bugle out of the institution’s three sites in leaving the scene. The Piano Club protest at contracts being offered to The injured woman was 9 Brighton Terrace news staff. taken to Kings College Hos- SW9 8DJ The striking staff walked out pital where they amputed her on June 3 at Vauxhall, Brixton and thumb above the knuckle. Clapham campuses and have stayed Police describe the attack- » Tel 020 3730 1312 out since. Nearly 90 per cent of er as a black woman with a » @brixtonblog union members balloted voted in plump build and dark hair. » @brixton_bugle favour of the action. She was about 5ft 4ins tall,s » www.brixtonblog.com Writing in the Brixton Bugle aged 30 to 40 years old and this month, UCU Branch was wearing dark clothing. Secretary Mandy Brown said: Circulation: 10,000 copies “We are beginning our fourth ANGRY: Above, lecturers at the Clapham picket line in June. Picture by Readership: circa 15,000 week of strike action over the UCU. Below, College principal Mark Silverman Wondrous Windmill imposition of new contracts Residents will get the chance and are as strong and united as introduced in April. NEWS He said: “The new contract for to explore Brixton Windmill, we’ve been. in Blenheim Gardens, this [email protected] “Staff are working harder than new staff is part of the wider plan to ensure the long-term success of the month with one of their ever before. These new contracts will experienced tour guides. POLITICS put more pressure on us and have a College, so that it is ‘fit for purpose’ and able to secure outstanding Visitors to the ‘two mills in Kaye Wiggins disastrous impact on the future of one’ will hear the intriguing community college.” provision alongside financial [email protected] sustainability.” story of the Ashby family who UCU has been supported in its once owned it. strike by members of Unison, who He added: “Thankfully, most staff FEATURES have continued to work and most They will be able to see the have taken a number of strike days. original wind-powered ma- Keith John Lewis Both unions say they are open to students are unaffected by the strike.” Eight students at the college wrote chinery and find out how it [email protected] negotiations with college principal was once used to make stone- Mark Silverman. an open letter to the principal this week to call on him to resolve the ground flour. Silverman says he is not willing Booking is required for a ARTS to back down on the new contracts, dispute. Barney Evison Ruth Waters Strike: For and Against. Comment p9. full tour but you can just turn [email protected] up on the day and queue for the short tour of the first floor only. MUSIC & LISTINGS Phoebe Robertson [email protected] Shooting leaves bullet FOOD Miss South Lindsay Faller [email protected] lodged in man’s head SPORT Laura Dickinson A reward of up to £20,000 is being loading pistol which was shot at [email protected] offered for information relating very close range”. to a shooting in Tulse Hill last The suspect is described as year which has left a young man a black man, approximately 5’ ISSUE 22 with a bullet lodged in his head. 7” tall, in his late teens or early The 28-year-old victim was twenties, and wearing a black Sub-editor: Jamila Omar shot in the back of his head at hooded top - zipped up to the Riding rave Writers: Christina Jaenicke, close range by a lone gunman nose and with hood up - along South London cyclists took James Eaton, Katrin outside Fairview House, on the with black jeans. part in a two-wheeled rave Magnussen Roupell Estate, on September 21. Prins said: “I would like to around Lambeth as part of Despite three days’ treatment reassure any potential witnesses the borough’s bike festival. in Kings College Hospital the who may be worried about Riders massed at Brockwell Pictures: Alistair Hall, man, from China, still has the making contact with police that Lido after the festival events, Owen Llewellyn, Fiona bullet embedded in his skull. Trident has extensive expertise before cycling around town Nine months on, officers in protecting witnesses and there dressed in neon. Freund, Nick Weedon, Mike X-RAY: The victim still has the Rourke are launching a fresh appeal are a range of measures that can for witnesses or anyone with bullet lodged in his head be taken to protect you.” information to come forward. Members of the public with Sudbourne fair Cartoons / Illustrations: morning was shot at close range.” Take part in the tombola, get Kaylene Alder, Tim Bird Detective chief inspector Jason He added: “Understandably he any information can contact Prins, from Trident Gang Crime the Trident South investigation some bric-a-brac and enjoy Pam Williams, Bobby Groves, and his family are very distressed the live music at Sudbourne Command, said: “This was a by this apparently motiveless and team on 020 8247 4877 or call Crossword: Josie Gardiner shocking incident whereby a Crimestoppers anonymously on Primary School’s summer senseless attack. The gun used in fair from 11.30am-2.30pm young man walking home from the attack was some form of self- 0800 555 111. work in the early hours of the on July 5. There will be Columnists: Ms Bennet, summer carnival games, a Alison Alexander plant sale and an intriguingly named ‘auction of promises’. A massive thank you to The entrance is on everybody involved in Send us your BRIXTON news Sudbourne Road and entry making this issue, and the costs 50p for adults, while Blog & Bugle project, a kids go free. success. www.brixtonblog.com @brixtonblog Brixton Bugle July 2014 3 News www.brixtonblog.com Have your Record store stalwart say on new Blacker Dread jailed Town Hall BY TIM DICKENS last week, which was closed with Selhurst Road, South Norwood BY ZOE JEWELL black bags taped to the windows, and paid into the accounts of The well-known Brixton record read: “Oops…” Burnett-Martin, Martin herself and Residents are being asked to give shop owner Blacker Dread has Dread is a founder of the Brixton four other accomplices between their views on the council’s plans been jailed for two and a half years Splash festival and his record shop September 2011 and August 2012.