[Brighton] Graffiti Tagging - who is doing it and why?

[portlock seagull]

High foreign student population and in Europe it’s way worse. Evidently we’re importing these idiots.

 

[Swansman]

I dig it. I often prefer tags over just some gray concrete wall. I also get insanely happy knowing there are some kids around who are not completely psychosodomized by their phones and computers.

 

[Questions]

It’s always sad when I see it In Italy. Beautiful cities covered in it. I can’t understand it but it does always remind me of Life of Brian

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Seems it is the thing to do for kids/gangs at the moment.
The worst place I have seen it is Italy, graffiti all over some beautiful and ancient buildings in Rome, Florence and Venice.
Gang in Plymouth doing it on cars recently.

 

[bhafc99]

Gritt believes Belotti bullshit.

The only bit of graffiti I’ve ever approved of. Not that Steve Gritt did believe the bullshit, at all, but it was good thinking Bellotti had to see that every time he was snuggled into the Goldstone.




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[bhafc99]

Smuggled!!


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[Weststander]

Last Saturday lunchtime at Seven Dials, in broad daylight, we saw a young bloke in a hoodie spraying graffiti over white/cream walls, also in Montpelier Crescent. Couldn’t believe how brazen he was.

A couple of days later, the same character was in The Argus:
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17973500.f-off-mate---laughing-graffiti-vandal-confronted-camera/

 

[BN41Albion]

Think Brighton has the same amount of graffiti as other places but less cleaning up of graffiti so it all just accumulates. Seems to be concentrated in certain areas (Western Road, London Rd, Lewes Rd). Go to Paris, Madrid, Rome or London and there is loads more than Brighton.

All the rage in cities on the continent it seems. German cities too - Berlin especially, every inch of every street tagged pretty much

 

[GT49er]

Smuggled!!

That certainly qualifies for a 'Whoops"!

 

[GT49er]

Think Brighton has the same amount of graffiti as other places but less cleaning up of graffiti so it all just accumulates. Seems to be concentrated in certain areas (Western Road, London Rd, Lewes Rd). Go to Paris, Madrid, Rome or London and there is loads more than Brighton.

Bristol is fairly awash with the stuff. Far too much tagging, but also lots of Street Art (if you like that kind of thing).

 

[Clive Walker]

Reaching out to those in the know here, and realising that I'm sounding like a naive old dear, but it's something that's been puzzling me for a while.

Graffiti tagging is epidemic in Brighton - and virtually any building is now fair game.

From the sheer number and variety of tags (not graffiti artwork, which is mostly pretty stunning), there must be a lot of people out and about with spray cans.

Yet when visiting city centres like Newcastle and Liverpool for away games they seem relatively untouched in comparison.

Why is it such a huge thing in Brighton? Who is doing it and why?

DEAN

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Bored kids who haven't been taught to respect other peoples belongings. Need a bloody good hiding.

One bloke who tagged arround sarf London had a decent job in the city. ADHD would be my guess.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Gritt believes Belotti bullshit.

The only bit of graffiti I’ve ever approved of. Not that Steve Gritt did believe the bullshit, at all, but it was good thinking Bellotti had to see that every time he was snuggled into the Goldstone.




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Dick Damage Reads The Argus

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

It may be less people than you think. I suspect some of the main culprits who have larger murals or pieces about town will be tagging several times a day. I believe in Bath, which has a lot of street art, they matched the tags on the legitimate murals to illegal tags on public buildings / transport. My guess is there will be about 50 people putting up in excess of 10,000 tags per year. They probably do it for a sense of identity, habit / boredom and because there is little or no consequence for their actions.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Some axxx hole has even sprayed a church near the bottom of Elm Grove.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

It may be less people than you think. I suspect some of the main culprits who have larger murals or pieces about town will be tagging several times a day. I believe in Bath, which has a lot of street art, they matched the tags on the legitimate murals to illegal tags on public buildings / transport. My guess is there will be about 50 people putting up in excess of 10,000 tags per year. They probably do it for a sense of identity, habit / boredom and because there is little or no consequence for their actions.

I may be wrong but I find it hard to believe that any of the highly-talented street artists who create the major murals around town would bother wasting their time tagging, which seems to me a desperate bid for recognition from the totally talent-free - the equivalent of dogs scent-marking. And some of their murals are regularly defaced by taggers.

As for the council's survey, it mostly asks how long you think owners of businesses who are the victims of tagging should be given to clean it off before they are prosecuted, which strikes me as completely the wrong attitude. Instead, the council should grow a collective pair and put all its spare resources into catching the perpetrators and prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law.

 

[Dick Head]

http://www.photosbrightonandhove.org.uk/beat-yourself-up-graffiti.html

 

[Solid at the back]

DEAN

DEAN was everywhere 20 years ago

 

[Blue3]

Restrict the sale of spray paint it's so easy and cheap to get hold of, a couple of weeks ago Aldi were selling full sized cans £2.99 they were flying off the shelves is it right that supermarket is selling such products at discounted prices?

Why not make spray paint with traceable markers within the paint and fine the manufacturing companies for the clean up, that might help focus their minds

I have just returned from holiday in Croatia and was struck by the general lack of graffiti and detritus on the streets while at the same time they don't have bins everywhere, instead individuals take Responsibility and dispose of it correctly, equally the packaging is far less buy a burger it comes with a napkin no box no bag and the drink in a china cup as there is no take away if you need to eat and drink you sit in to have it

 

[GOM]

It’s true though. It’s a bit like living in the centre of Brighton and complaining about it being a bit busy. Or there’s loud police sirens. Why should I spend my day worrying about my apartment wall being graffitied...other than it maybe being offensive?

It’s a bit like living in the centre of Brighton and complaining about homeless people begging on the street. Why should I spend my day worrying about that, after all it's just part of life.

Why should I worry about CO2 pollution after all it's just part of life now.

Why should I worry about leaving the EU, it was democratically voted for so it's part of life now.

Why should I worry about poverty and people having to use foodbanks, It's just part of life after all.