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US singer Sombr blasts Brixton Academy after security failed to spot fainted fan

Brixton Academy was previously forced to suspend its licence after a fatal crowd crush outside the building in December 2022

Evening Standard

Sleaford Mods review: Gwendoline Christie guests in peak modernist punk

4/5 Sleaford Mods bring the rage to O2 Brixton Academy along with towering joy thanks to some special guests

Evening Standard

Joe Benjamin obituary

Other lives: Musician and activist who started out in Bermuda and settled in Brixton

The Guardian - UK

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Robbie Williams has apologised to Gary Barlow ‘a million times’ after watching Take That documentary

‘It’s not nice now but it was f***ing fun at the time’ said the pop star during a gig at Brixton Academy

The Independent UK

Robbie Williams: I was the smuggest person that ever lived

The 51-year-old performed at the O2 Academy Brixton on Sunday night.

Evening Standard

Underworld at the O2 Academy Brixton review: fast and filthy euphoria from the dancefloor veterans

4/5 The thirtieth-anniversary celebration of Born Slippy .NUXX throws everything at the kitchen sink and then some more

Evening Standard

‘In our DNA’: Celtic deepen London ties with girls’ football initiative

On a soaked Brixton pitch, the club launches its latest programme as part of widening mission that now stretches from Glasgow’s soup kitchens to Gaza relief

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Animal rights stunt sees woman’s throat ‘slit’ outside London KFC

PETA claimed the fake blood-drenched protest which sought to highlight the slaughter of chickens by shops in Brixton

Evening Standard

Temaki: London's first handroll sushi bar makes move from Brixton to Mayfair

Temaki earned a loyal following in Brixton after opening in 2021

Evening Standard

Plans submitted to turn going-out hotspot in south London into skyscrapers

Two sites in Brixton could be redeveloped

Evening Standard

The Congregation: Brixton tube station’s mural of joy, resistance and community

Rudy Loewe’s arresting mural The Congregation sits above the entrance to Brixton Underground station in London. The large-scale painting highlights the people and places that have shaped the area’s history over the last 75 years. It serves as a gateway into Brixton’s past and present for locals and the estimated…

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Joy Crookes says UK and Ireland in ‘dark time’ amid rise of far-right politics

Musician’s Brixton and Dublin performances go viral after she performs Sinéad O’Connor’s anti-racism anthem Black Boys on Mopeds

The Guardian - UK

2210 By Natty Can Cook, London SE24: ‘Much more than just posh jerk chicken at fancy prices’ – restaurant review

There’s an attention to detail in every dish that makes this place more than fit for a special occasion

The Guardian - UK

Man charged over fatal stabbing of woman, 42, in south London

Robert Sabat, 59, is accused of killing Dickiesa Nurse and threatening two paramedics with a knife in Brixton

Evening Standard

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Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman found stabbed to death in Brixton

Officers found a 42-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds inside McCormick House in Brixton

Evening Standard

Watch: Horror moment youth 'stabs' group of teenagers during broad daylight knife attack in Brixton

Two boys, aged 16, were left injured, with one taken to hospital with a non-life threatening stab wound

Evening Standard

CCTV appeal as missing Kent teen, 15, spotted in London

The teen was last seen in Brixton, south London, on Friday

Evening Standard

How Brixton’s gentrification gravy train is pushing locals aside

As house prices soar so do plans for development, but residents aren’t so keen

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The Guardian - UK

Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom

Before it became naff music for health spas, chillout was cool – and this London club night was key. As a new generation carry its spirit forward, the originators remember the beats and bedding

The Guardian - UK

We can do better than figures on plinths to celebrate women’s achievements

Letters: Replacing figurative statues of colonists and enslavers with more figurative statues is timid – let’s embrace new art forms instead, says Dr Wendy Osmond. Plus letters from Jean Calder, Mary Fitzpatrick, and Peter Corkill

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan's al fresco dining scheme launches in Shoreditch - with St Martin's Lane coming soon

West End will join mayor’s £300,000 ‘summer streets’ scheme by the end of August, with roads closed to traffic

Evening Standard

‘I forgive my son’s killer’, says father of man stabbed to death in front of horrified Brixton shoppers

Jemaine Wong has written and directed a new stage play in honour of Keelen, 22, who was engaged to be married

Evening Standard

Brixton Calling: the wild true story behind the new musical

Simon Parkes bought Brixton Academy for £1, which was only the start of an incredible journey of music and madness - which has now been turned into a new theatre production

The Guardian - UK

Brixton Calling review – tender portrait of an iconic venue and the unsung hero who built it

Alex Urwin’s warm drama tells the story of Simon Parkes who at just 23 bought the Brixton Academy for a pound and turned it into a mainstay of the UK music scene

Metal Hammer

"When gangsters hustled me, I showed no fear because I was unaware of what was going on": What happens when you buy one of the UK's most iconic venues for £1

A new play tells the story of Simon Parkes, the entrepreneur who turned Brixton Academy into one of the nation's most-loved live venues

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