Cinema - Southwark Council have said....

[Robert Poste's Child]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Will the builders get minimum wage ?

London Living Wage, you mean?

[Robert Poste's Child]

Just to satisfy Zeb's expectations, I said in an earlier post that I understand this will give LL full high street status and push up business rates, thus forcing out some of the last remaining independents. Does anybody know the position on this?

Thanks.

[Jeremy]

What does "full high street status" mean?

[cle]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> What does "full high street status" mean?

I don't know but it sounds exciting... Space NK cannot be too far!

[KalamityKel]

The council in all their various documentation and information packs already refer to Lordship Lane as a high street... don't mean nuffink really ;-)

[Penguin68]

thus forcing out some of the last remaining independents.

If this were to happen shops would be left empty, if for no better reason than the footprint of most LL shops is well below the square meterage that most chains would be interested in. The reason we have so many estate agents is that offices of this nature can operate in small(er) premises (notwithstanding the great misue of retail opportunity space that is Foxton's).

[Zebedee Tring]

I knew that I was tempting fate when I said that I was waiting for the negative posts to appear on this thread.

My main inclination is to greet the news that cinema has gained planning permission by quoting Margaret Thatcher (a person who incidentally I hated greatly) and shouting "Rejoice!"

[LD929]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Let's hope with all this arty cinema we get some

> classics like 'Debbie Does Dallas' and 'Party at

> Kitty and Studs'.

>

> Louisa.

Whoa there.

[Otta]

Louisa Wrote:

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> I don't have much knowledge of films from the

> 1980s, and my genre was at it's best in the 70s

> anyway. Gone to the dogs these days. Such is

> life.

>

> Louisa.

Surely Taboo (1980) is in your collection Louisa?

[Louisa]

Otta yes Taboo was a Kirdy Stevens classic! It's probably a bit too close to the mark for art house cinema, but it is one I've seen before. As soon as disco died (82/83) the genre died with it IMO.

Louisa.

[DuncanW]

Disco didn't die in 82/83

It had a little nap maybe and came back a couple of years later as House music!!

[db1066]

A true dream come true! There will be an array of great films for all ages, groups, nationalities, gender, covering different genres, formats, alternative content...The stuff that dreams are made of. A great ammenity to the local community. Build it and they will come...Bring on the building works!!

[????]

DuncanW Wrote:

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> Disco didn't die in 82/83

> It had a little nap maybe and came back a couple

> of years later as House music!!

disco didn't exist to the white middleclasses kids and/or journalists (in the UK anyway) until house came along.

[DuncanW]

So I grew up in Bromley, and the local Our Price had a fair sized section marked Soul/Funk/Disco - and on Friday nights Greg Edwards had a show on Capital called Best Disco In Town.

Did those things exist to me - or was it all a dream??

[????]

Soul Spectrum I think you'll find it was called.

[????]

...and, excluding the big disco hits, how much soul and funk was played on say Radio 1 or talked about in the NME? When I went to Univesrity in 1981 the soundtrack at the Student Union was very, very white...a lot of people didn't know any James Brown tracks for example

[Louisa]

Disco and House cannot be compared. Different age, different musical styles.

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Disco and House cannot be compared. Different age,

> different musical styles.

Word, Lou. Can I have a sip of your water, please?

[Siduhe]

DuncanW Wrote:

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> Disco didn't die in 82/83

> It had a little nap maybe and came back a couple

> of years later as House music!!

Wash your mouth out young man. Heresy, I tell you...

[Alex K]

Well well well well well. Hurrah! No KLINGHOFFER, at least not live-broadcast... but much else and I am quite chuffed.