Opinion: Where’s the live music promised by Freight Brixton?
Yeah, as per fecking usual, they mention “live music” in a severely tokenist fashion. Proven by ZERO listings of live music so far, all DJs, then overpriced food and drink …
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Yeah, as per fecking usual, they mention “live music” in a severely tokenist fashion.
Proven by ZERO listings of live music so far, all DJs, then overpriced food and drink (easy to hide the markup of and sell a hyped-up experience, which is why Brixton often sucks these days).
ANY fool pub with a working electricity socket can stick a PA in a space and put a DJ on, it takes NOTHING special to organise.
Same as a man with a guitar and vocals in a pub corner is simply electrified busking, NOT live music.
Live music has drums (MY benchmark), and gets people dancing and requires organising.
Live music venues have sound engineers and sound QUALITY. At least VENUE-based live music.
Why bother paying for venue overheads and the stress of being herded into an often-oppressive space by security (which is indirect oppression by Police and Council Licensing Authority).
Why feel like you’ll be told what to do at every turn all for some basic experience like a DJ?
I love my good DJs but it has overcast real live music too much.
Culture used to be a nice choice of one, the other, or three gigs in an (early!) night about ten years ago, I remember doing in Central London.
When busking is easy, a venue makes itself irrelevant if it is only going to provide a busking-level setup (which can be musically-great, incidentally, note my actual point).
Also free (as in freedom). Humans need to be human, not feel like nothing more than a market to profit from.
The more un-sober I am the less I notice these vibes, which makes me wonder if we do too many drugs to even have some basic self-respect as a society any more.
Balance, nature loves balance, we should listen to her.
Whether it be balance between DJ-based music and live, between quality and quantity (especially of food, drink and other drugs) or between male and female influence, for example.
Modern society gets a hell of a lot wrong and loves to tell lies to cover up agendas, usually profit – or other unbalanced power-grubbing – motivated. Peace : you gotta know the recipe for it!
[This opinion piece by ‘Love Yourself and Others’ who commented on our article about Freight Brixton opening in March 2026]
