Songs written about Brixton, London
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Electric Avenue
Artist - Grant, Eddy
Format - 12" Single Date - 1983/1
Catalogue Number - ICET 57

Electric Avenue
Artist - Renaissance
Title - Time line
Format - AlbumDate - 1983/4
Catalogue Number - SP 70033

Brockwell Park
Artist - Red House Painters
Title - Ocean Beach
Format - AlbumDate - 1998

Woke up this morning
Artist - Alabama 3
Title - Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Format - CD Date - 1997
Label - Elemental
Catalogue Number - ELM-40

Coldharbour Lane
Artist - Robinson, Tom
Title - Glad to be gay cabaret
Format - Compact DiscDate - 1989/3
Catalogue Number - LICD 900261

Guns of Brixton
Title - London calling
Artist - Clash
Format - AlbumDate - 1979/12
Catalogue Number - CLASH 3



Return to Brixton
Title - London calling (re-release)
Artist - Clash
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1991/5
Catalogue Number - 6569466

Guns of Brixton
Artist - Gribbin, Tom & The Saltwater Cowboys
Format - 7" SingleDate - 1981/6
Catalogue Number - CRE 002

Guns of Brixton
Artist - Gribbin, Tom
Title - Son of Lightning
Format - AlbumDate - 1981/11
Catalogue Number - CRLP 1001

And God created Brixton<br> Track by Carter USM 2004

Brixton Mortars
LP by Carter USM 2004

Brixton
Artist - Renegade Soundwave
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1995/3
Catalogue Number - 12MUTE 165

Brixton
Artist - Strapps
Format - 7" SingleDate - 1982/7
Catalogue Number - DONUT 3

Brixton
Title- Straps
Artist - Strapps
Format - AlbumDate - 1983/1
Catalogue Number - CYC 2



Brixton
Title - Rock Stars Kill
(Various Artists)
Artist - Rancid
Format - AlbumDate - 1994/8
Catalogue Number - KRS 221

Devil went down to Brixton, The
Artist - Davidson, Jim
Format - 7" SingleDate - 1980/8
Catalogue Number - HS 407

Riots in Brixton
Title - Man, a van and a bleeper, The
(Various Artists)
Artist - Black Sunday
Format - Album SetDate - 1994/11
Catalogue Number - SLIPLP 017

No trees in Brixton b/w Brixton walkabout
Artist - Manton, Bob
Format - 7" SingleDate - 1981/6
Catalogue Number - MS 101

Santa isn't coming to Brixton town
Artist - Robinson, Jackie
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1986/1
Catalogue Number - 71312

Down to Brixton
Title - Stepping it lightly
Artist - Sweet Distortion
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1984/6
Catalogue Number - ST 001



Flames of Brixton
Title - Still from the heart
Artist - Angelic Upstarts
Format - AlbumDate - 1982/4
Catalogue Number - ZONO 106

Brixton Rock
Title - Three weeks gone
Artist - Lorna G.
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1985/2
Catalogue Number - ARI 37

Brixton riot
Title - Train is coming, The
Artist - Abacush
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1984/6
Catalogue Number - AB 002

Riot inna Brixton
Title - What a feeling
Artist - Minott, Sugar & Jah Son
Format - 12" SingleDate - 1986/2
Catalogue Number - 12CSA 509

Barbados (mentions Brixton)
Artist - Typically Tropical
Format - 7" SingleDate - 1975/7
Catalogue Number - GULS 14

Back to Brixton
Artist - Hijack
From the album 'The Horns of Jericho'

Scandal In A Brixton Market
Laurel Aitken
(1960s Ska on Pama's Nu-Beat label)

Brooklyn To Brixton
Freq Nasty
(Skint Records, SKINT 96P, Mar 2004



The Lambeth Walk
These instructions from 1937 show dancers how to perform the 'Lambeth Walk', a popular dance set to music by Noel Gay.




*Honourable Brixton bus mention!

Poem Song
Polly Scattergood debut album (2009)
"Everybody seems to just turn a blind eye On the 159 to Brixton, when a blonde girl cries... "



  Fact! David Bowie was born and lived at 40 Stansfield Road, nr Stockwell Rd, SW9.
  Fact! Jimi Hendrix used to regularly play Brady's bar (Railway).
  Fact! Buffalo Bill lived in Brixton Water Lane at the turn of the century and kept his animals on Brixton Common.

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