{"id":2615,"date":"2010-11-05T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2010-11-08T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T23:26:45","slug":"brixtons-lost-banksy-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixtons-lost-banksy-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton&#8217;s lost Banksy graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-lost-banksy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton's lost Banksy graffiti \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Appearing opposite the Brixton Academy at the back of the Backstage Bar (on Astoria Walk, SW9) was this &#8220;Thug For Life&#8221; graffiti by Banksy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I spotted it in March 2004, although it wasn&#8217;t around long before some muppet painted over it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-lost-banksy-2.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton's lost Banksy graffiti \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti detail. Last time I looked, the wall was painted plain white and the Backstage Bar has\u00a0turned\u00a0into a loan shop.\u00a0Maybe the graffiti is still under there\u00a0somewhere?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> madolesance has posted this picture of the same site on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/threads\/337041-Brixton\u2019s-lost-Banksy-graffiti\" target=\"_blank\">discussion thread<\/a> and it shows a\u00a0different, earlier Banksy graffiti. The photo was taken in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-lost-banksy-3.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton's lost Banksy graffiti \" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: it turned out I&#8217;d also taken a picture of the original Banksy, in August 2003 &#8211; here&#8217;s the photo below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-lost-banksy-4.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton's lost Banksy graffiti \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-lost-banksy-5.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton's lost Banksy graffiti \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing opposite the Brixton Academy at the back of the Backstage Bar (on Astoria Walk, SW9) was this &#8220;Thug For Life&#8221; graffiti by Banksy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[34,197],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-art","tag-graffiti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-lost-banksy-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}