"Pressure" (1975)

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/480497/

Any fans on CaB? Ladbroke Grove doesn't look much different 40 years later.

[Funcrusher]

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/480497/

Any fans on CaB? Ladbroke Grove doesn't look much different 40 years later.

Not seen it but would like to.  Haven't seen 'Rockers' either. Hoping to see 'Babylon' in the next few days.

[Mr Banlon]

Not seen it but would like to.  Haven't seen 'Rockers' either. Hoping to see 'Babylon' in the next few days.

Rockers is the tits. Best of the three in my opinion.
Grove may not look different now to how it did in Pressure, but it is totally different in character. Colville Terrace and Powys Square were Bohemian/fucking well dodgy back then. It's like Belgravia round there nowadays. The Golborne end down near Trellick where a lot of Pressure was shot is getting more poncefied by the day. Back when I was younger, round there was pretty stabby unless you knew someone local. 'The Pit', just off the Golborne was a walled below-street-level basketball court that was also a graffiti hall-of-fame for over 25 years is now gone, and flats are now in it's place.
The local Moroccans, Portuguese and Brasilians are being priced out of living there, and the ethnic cleansing of West Indians to Harlesden and elsewhere continues.
Looks the same. It ain't.