Africans in Chestnuts Park

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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on Thursday

I'll answer for myself Alan, although taking into account an acceptance of diversity I can understand why people don't want to hear a constant, repetitive noise in the short annual interlude that we can sit in our gardens and have the windows open. My comments on The Observer and a play on words were a bit of humour Alan, which I guess that you simply didn't like, didn't want to like, or didn't get.

As for the fanciful theories, they are based on my extended visits to South Africa and Zimbabwe on so many occasions I have lost count. This was not in white suburbs, but the bars, beer-halls, town backstreets, shebeens, villages, smallholding farms and tin-shacks of 'coloured' and black people. I've even stood three feet away from Robert Mugabe. I've seen the huge open gatherings of church groups, including the almost biblical sight of the apostolic gatherings on the hills. I can say with some confidence Alan, that I am versed enough in African culture with enough qualification to comment.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter yesterday

KRANKBOTHER, "top of the bill"

I think we are drifting a tad from the topic of this thread which in essence, is a grumble about noise from a park.

At the time and date mentioned, I heard continuous, tedious noise that some might describe as music. I could not swear that it was coming from Finsbury Park but I have no reason to believe otherwise. The local council website is my best evidence for the source, i.e. one of their public park customers (Krankbrother):

Summer Fun continues with Krankbrother event in Finsbury Park

This Local Authority helps to advertise the entertainment that they also Licence, so I've reproduced and highlighted their promotional material:

Honey Dijon and CamelPhat are at the top of the bill on Saturday (9 August) and Sunday (10 August) …

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton 2 hours ago

Hello again, Martin  Woodside. Still speculating without a scrap of evidence?

Or should I perhaps assume that your latest post - you call it your "answer" - is another failed attempt at humour?  Like your dismal  "joke" about The Observer Sunday newspaper.

Did you actually see or hear the source of the noise discussed? If so please tell us more.
If not, what on earth has your standing "three feet from Robert Mugabe" on one of your countless, varied and enviable experiences in South Africa and Zimbabwe, have to do with a persistent noise coming from one of two parks in Haringey? Are you seriously claiming that qualifies you as "well versed enough"  to comment on an event about which nobody has yet provided any further solid information whatsover.
Instead you offer a new speculation based on your memories - perhaps long ago?  Personal recollections - of : "huge open gatherings of church groups, including the almost biblical sight of the apostolic gatherings on the hills".

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