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only1billybonds 12:39 Fri Dec 16
Brixtin (o2) Academy

A gig had to be cut short less than halfway through last night because of crowd problems outside. Seems that up to 1000 people tried to get in without tickets causing 4 people to sustain critical injury.

Iv'e been to that venue dozens of times aling with Hammersmith, The Roundhouse, Town & Country club etc and notseen anything of this nature. But then Iv'e never been to a Rap concert.

Manuel 12:42 Fri Dec 16
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Had a tear up in the Brixton academy many moons back during a Blur gig, bloke behind us poured his beer over my MATES head, said mate turned round and cracked him, long story short we get tossed out. Proper rock n roll :-)

joe royal 12:46 Fri Dec 16
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Nigerians are the new scousers.

Iron Duke 2:22 Fri Dec 16
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Town & Country Club? You’re showing your age.

only1billybonds 7:29 Sat Dec 17
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A woman has died and 2 more are still critically ill after this mess the other night. There are calls in some quarters for the venue to be shut down.

Do fuck off, nothing to do with the venue, police or other security, this happened because a whole lot of people wanted something for nothing.

bruuuno 7:36 Sat Dec 17
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Just watched the bbc news for the first time in years. The focus of the reporting was on the police and the prominent footage they used showed police pushing a woman back down the steps. I loathe the BBC with a passion

Sven Roeder 7:39 Sat Dec 17
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Brixton Academy is a perfectly safe venue ... and its sloped floor makes it one of the best of these types.
The problem is cunts turning up without tickets and trying to rush the entrance and killing people (one at least so far).
Just like Hillsborough
Presume the people will try the Scouse defence and blame the police, venue and anyone else

twoleftfeet 8:04 Sat Dec 17
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I can guarantee 100% the police will get blamed for this despite not even being there.

This was caused by hundreds of ticketless people trying to get in.

But hey blame the old bill 👍

arsene york-hunt 8:08 Sat Dec 17
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"This was caused by hundreds of ticketless people trying to get in."

I didn't know there was a Brixton in Liverpool

only1billybonds 8:10 Sat Dec 17
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https://twitter.com/Jordz_K23/status/1603529333020233729?t=Sm-WQBp6V3OGpllm57bCXA&s=19

Yea, all down to plod.

happygilmore 8:33 Sat Dec 17
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Just watching the news. Very sad for the woman who lost her life. RIP.

Could have had similar at the Euro's final at Wembley with the 2000 mob with no tickets trying to storm the gates. Reports of supporters fuelled up on drink and drugs. Maybe the restrictions on alcohol have been a good thing, given we haven't witness the usual smashing up pubs etc

goose 8:47 Sat Dec 17
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The videos on Twitter are horrible.

I’m sure someone will blame the police or authorities and call them racist.

only1billybonds 8:54 Sat Dec 17
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goose.

Indeed, some shocking scenes for sure. Anyone with an open mind will know that one group of people were responsible for those scenes and it clearly isnt plod.

Tomshardware 11:23 Sat Dec 17
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This sort of thing would never happen at a Cliff Richards concert.

joe royal 2:22 Sun Dec 18
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Toms, this is the quote.

Not many clubs will host black dances any more. And who can blame them? I mean people don't fire guns at Elton John concerts.
Jah screechy 1993

Westham67 2:52 Sun Dec 18
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It was a dress rehearsal for the annual HAJ stampede

arsene york-hunt 3:26 Sun Dec 18
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That was called the Brixton Astoria I went there to see Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, The Tornadoes and Rolf Harris Who had a top ten hit with Sun Arise, must have been the early sixties.

Westham67 6:11 Sun Dec 18
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BEEB trying to point some blame at da police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64003455

Mike Oxsaw 9:29 Sun Dec 18
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There will be a clear and undeniable link between this, Hillsborough, and the jollies at the England game - a link the authorities will have told the media to avoid making under pain of never being allowed to a government briefing ever again.

chim chim cha boo 11:10 Sun Dec 18
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I've got to say the footage of that police officer throwing a woman down the concrete entrance stairs was a bit much however many people tried to jib in.

I'm kind of surprised most of you who have been going to football for years are so pro police. Whenever I've been caught up in a surge the old bill have actually made it worse.

The last one I was caught in was at the last game at Upton Park near the West stand as the already late and battered ManU coach was trying to get into the car park.

Mobbed Green St, everyone having a sing up and a laugh when the police start pushing everyone back for the coach. The problem was that there was absolutely nowhere to push them back to.

Nobody could move and as I had my hands by my side the crowd crushed me and literally lifted my feet off the ground, my arms were trapped and I couldn't do a thing about it.

Women and kids started screaming and I got propelled into a garden wall and couldn't breathe or move. It was fucking scary because there was literally fuck all I could do about it but despite the screaming women and kids and a bunch of West Ham shouting at the police to stop they couldn't give a fuck and kept pushing us back with their batons out.

As I was squashed I detected a tiny, tiny bit of leverage as the crowd turned slightly and I hoofed my way up and just about got a foot up the garden wall where a supporter (God bless him) grabbed me before I could fall backwards and pulled me over into the already mobbed garden.

I stopped for a few seconds to catch my breath then did what everyone else on the walls were doing, trying to pull screaming kids, older supporters and everyone else getting crushed up and over into the gardens on Green St.

I'm still amazed nobody died. Total fuck up by the police but if they had done all the headlines would have said what many of you are saying about The Academy crush, just replace black kids with West Ham supporters.

'Ah fuck 'em, just a bunch of West Ham supporters without tickets trying to get in for free'.

only1billybonds 11:50 Sun Dec 18
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Chim.

Yea, the bird getting launched down the stairs was a bit over the top but so was the bird belting the copper across the chops.
This isnt a racial issue, plenty on here piled into the coked up cunts trying to get into Wembley for the last Euro's final.

Policing at football has always been diabolical which is something most of us witnessed for years and were powerless to do anything about. Compared to plod legging it down the road AWAY from protesters or offering them tea and water while they block some of the countries busiest road, the policing looked pretty low key at Brixton. Taking of protests, Iv'e thought for ages that if a bunch of footall fans blocked main roads in protest over season ticket prices, the old bill wouldnt hestiate to grag, kick and charge them out of the way. But if you want to cause unrest over a bloke getting killed 4000 miles away, plod wont just look the other way, they'll run.

I'm at Brixton in April for a sold out gig, maybe I'll see scenes similar to the other night but i doubt it.

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