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Streets Of Brighton: Cambridge Road

Jan 19, 2010
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Posted by Nick Coquet

This time we’re all about Cambridge Road, between Western Road and Lansdowne Road – des res or a stress address?

So, it’s in Hove, yeah?
Does that offend you, yeah? We don’t know why people have a downer on the place. Cambridge Road is pretty much equidistant between the main action zones of Brighton and Hove, but Brighton’s the nearest station if that makes you feel better.

So what’s the deal with the place?
Well, you know Camden in Fancy London is the place to see pop stars falling out of pubs and punching photographers, well Cambridge Road is a slightly more sedate Brighton version of that. For some reason it’s packed with the city’s musical creatives, with folk from Concorde 2, 13 Artists, New Hero, Somewhere In The Universe, The Qemists, Red Hot Promotions and Skint Records all calling it home. If you’re in a band with a demo CD in your pocket, you could do worse than wander about here.

I’m not wandering the damn streets in this weather, where do these swanky impresarios drink?
Oh, mostly in exclusive media members clubs, where dwarves serve cocaine from silver trays on their heads. But on the off chance that we’ve actually made that up, The Bee’s Mouth is a great pub, one we’ve mentioned before as it happens. Another very respectable local boozer is the Lion & Lobster. They’re pretty much all decent around here though.

But it’s not all glamour, right? Isn’t there some dosser palace there?
Well that’s not a very charitable way of putting it. There’s one of the city’s most important homeless refuges at the foot of the road, but that doesn’t mean you’re tripping over smack-induced body bags lying in the street or anything. That kind of narrow-minded Daily Mail NIMBY attitude does you no favours at all, my friend.

Fair enough I guess. Are we recommending it then?
Yes, on the whole we are. These are big houses, conversions obviously, but you still get that high-ceiling opulence with spacious rooms and lovely old cornices and stuff. No cabs necessary either, wherever you’re going in town it’s a mere hop and a skip away. And you’re still only about 200 yards from the sea.

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Streets Of Brighton
Jan 19, 2010
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Nick Coquet is the former Deputy Editor of SOURCE. He also DJs on the radio, designs websites and stands about in the nude for life drawing classes. He's shaken hands with Meat Loaf and bumped into Keith Richards, just so he could say he's touched him.
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