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Brixton

Drums of steel in Brixton

As I’ve previously noted, I love Brixton – it’s sonically fascinating, with so much going on even within a few hundred metres of the Underground station. For this next sound, I barely had to move a few metres, as a steel drum band was set

Song of the Brixton preacher

  You see – or, more appropriately, hear – street preachers in many cities, but this one was particularly vehement, calling people out for spending money and taking pride in their appearance and so forth. Every so often you can hear the people she was