A friend of mine visited Brighton the other
Sunday and while his wife was attending a course he spent some time sitting on
the beach and then wondering the lanes.
In the park near the Dome he found some
buskers one of which was a young guy playing saxophone. My friend sat and
listened for a while and then struck up a conversation with the guy, what interested
him was this young musician apart from being a proficient player was from the
ranks of what we might loosely term 'the counter culture' of which there are
many members in the Brighton area.
I find that element makes this part of
Sussex an interesting place to live because in the past few years I have moved
a number of times and I have been very surprised that the social zeitgeist can
be so different.
One of these places was Canterbury which I
thought would be arty and open to lots of interesting types of thinking but it was
actually still smothered with the stuffy Anglican high church thinking, a sort
of middle class, middle of the road type of people and rather dull from an
artistic point of view. There seemed to be no element of danger, they had a
number of old rockers down there still doing their thing; I won’t mention names
but if you live in the area you would know of whom I speak but Brighton is
rather different with lots of creative types bending styles and doing new
things.
The is an element of subversion here, if you
wonder out from the lanes you will find yourself in the seedier parts beloved
of Graham Greene. Even surrounding towns like the genteel looking Lewes can be
deceiving. Lewes whose karma seems to be of social reform and upheaval (Simon
de Montfort, Tom Payne et al) has one of the most wild bonfire ceremonies I
have ever seen. Health and safety is kicked into touch for the night with
people rolling and carrying flaming tar barrels around the street. The area of
Brighton makes a great place for new bands, writers comedians, film makers and
home to many alternative thinkers, gay activists, and political thinkers there
is obviously something in the water.
Vic
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