Stop Everything Everywhere.

A mobile phone antenna on the roof of the Royal Free Hospital. Can this be healthy?

Seeing as I'm skiving off in Berlin, I may as well be of some use and get you all to sign this petition.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-mobile-phone-masts-in-built-up-residential/

They're sticking mobile phone antennas everywhere these days. My mate, Hampstead artist and sculptor Clive Barker swears he gets bad headaches as a result of all this horrid, phone-mast business.

Now that Orange and T-Mobile have merged to become the somewhat domineeringly named Everything Everywhere (ed. blimey, they think a lot of themselves), they're trying to erect another of those ugly and possibly unhealthy masts slap bang in the middle of a conservation area, ie. Hampstead.

Typically, as do all river - or airwave - polluting corporations, they've chosen the summer holidays, when everyone's away, to get permission from the gullible Scamden. Even if you are on your Hols, please sign the petition below. It'll take you two ticks.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-mobile-phone-masts-in-built-up-residential/

Ta very much,

Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein x
Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein esq. NA. AA. AFC.

Isn't Hampstead Marvelous!

Editon 16 in shops now!

Watcha Hampsters!

Yes, edition 16's in the shops and full of gloriously amusing bits and bobs... I've run out of promotional jargon so just go and buy the blasted thing and leave it by your loo for those personal, Hampstead loo moments. No, not those moments, Klaus, the normal ones.

Toodle Pip!

EMGoldstein-Wooster III

Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein-Wooster III

Hampstead High Street Nineteen-Sixty-Something

Hello Hampsters,

I've sent off edition 16 of the Hampstead Village Voice to the Magazine Printing Company and all being well, the 5th anniversary edition will be in the shops on Monday the 9th of July 2012. Although it doesn't feature the above photo by Richard Friedman of the High Street in the Sixties, it does massacre Tesco-Stressco prior to its 10th anniversary on the centre pages and features a splendid photo of boxer John Conteh in the nude at the Men's Pond in 1974. 

Toodle Pip!

Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein-Wooster

E.M.Goldstein Wooster

Visit: www.hampsteadvillagevoice.com to find out where to buy your copy.

Pure Fruit Aka. Brian Lay

Thankfully, after much local pressure from various sources, not least the hammering we gave Scamden in the last edition of the Hampstead Village Voice, the council has backed down on raising Pure Fruit’s rent by £5,700. 


So go and buy your fruit & veg' there, Jenkins and Son or AJ Fruiterers and not at Tesco-Stressco or M&S.

Incidentally, bumped into Philip Matthews of the Hampstead Butcher & Providor today at the Heath Street festival and he suggested the following:

INDEPENDENT'S DAY!  

Support Your Local Shops on 4th July 

Local retailers in Hampstead are flying the flag to support diversity on our high streets on Independents’ Day 2012!

On 4th July 2012 across the country, we are asking shoppers to buy at least one item from their local, independent shop to celebrate Independents’ Day 2012.  We are engaging with local independent retailers to support our campaign. 

The national campaign is organised by Skillsmart Retail and the National Skills Academy for Retail. In Hampstead it is promoted by the Mary Portas Hampstead Shops Campaign, spearheaded by Jessica Learmond-Criqui, which champions the local retailers who make the village so special. 

With over 160,000 independent retailers making up 92% of all retail businesses in the UK, their importance to local economies as well as their contribution to a location’s identity, character and community is unrivaled.

We are asking the local community to:

Buy at least one item from your local independent shop to celebrate Independents’ Day on 4th July, 2012!

For further information, please contact:

Simon Marcus - simonmarcus2003@yahoo.co.uk (M) 07890524005

Jessica Learmond-Criqui – jlc@lawlcs.com   (M) 07770231367




Toodle Pip!


Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein x

SAFF END GREEN FESTIVAL

Bill 'Fidel' Oddie with  jazz fusion guitarist John Etheridge head the jazz revolution in Saff End Green. Viva Fidel Oddie! Viva La Revoluçion!

We do like a bit of advance warning here at the Hampstead Village Voice, so the Hampstead Heath Community Festival -  A.K.A. the People's Revolution of Saff End Green - will again be upon us on Sunday the 15th of July 2012.

    
It kicks off at about 11am but we shall say no more in case the counter-revolutionaries of the Union of the Soviet Scamden Republics catch on and try to mess things up.

    
Naturally, there be a full report in the 5th anniversary edition of the Hampstead Village Voice out on Monday July the 9th 2012 at a proper Hampstead newsagent near you.

Toodle Pip!

Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein,

Enemy of Big Brother.

What Hampstead Really Needs is...

Another Mobile Phone Shop!

Although currently in Brazil, the Sub-editor has reminded me in no uncertain terms not to neglect my Hampsteardly duties. 

Namely to inform you that there will be a demonstration outside the above shop front on Sunday the 27th of May 2012 at 11am. Those who have read the current edition of the Hampstead Village Voice will be aware that Sue of the Hampstead Health Shop was recently booted out for not keeping up to speed with 'market forces'.

The landlord, Prudential, has now, in its wisdom, decided to let the shop to, wait for it... yet another mobile phone shop. (Ed. I didn't think there were any left?)

I shall make sure to be back in Hampstead for the demo. See you there. 

Feel free to sign the petition (link below) and come along if you've had enough of the corporate colonisation of our beloved Hampstead and subsequent closure of local, independent Hampstead businesses.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hampsteadcallsonprudentialtoletsustainably/

Toodle Pip!

EM Goldylocks. x

Emmanuel Mustafa Goldstein

No Sex Please We're Brazilian!

Sex is not what it seems in Brazil

Far be it from me to blow my own trumpet - after all I can't play trumpet and blowing ones own guitar would be, to say the least, somewhat precarious - but I shall be entertaining the good people of Lavras, Brazil this Friday by way of a small concert at the Circuito Alternativa - a night club at the seedier end of the town.

Contrary to what you may think, the above flyer does not mean yours truly will be having sex on the 18th of May at 23:30hrs. For 'Sex' in the above context is but an abbreviation for Sexta-Feira known to you and I merely as Friday. And yes, that is how one spells acoustic in Portuguese.

Toodle-Pip!

Y. Truly.

Not Mustafa Goldstein.

Lavras, Brazil.

PS. So keen was the local promoter and club owner - a splendid fellow called Janio, who seems to like all things British (minus the wars of course) - that he made not one, but two flyers. I hope I can live up to all this publicity.

Flyer No. 2