Occupy LSX evicted from the Bank of Ideas
Occupy LSX had a very messy eviction from the Bank of Ideas last night. This video contains swearing – so probably NSFW – and everyone in it behaves like a total ass.
30 Jan 2012
Ken Livingstone says London's supply of cocaine and women will keep bankers happy here
Cocaine and girls. Ken Livingstone explains why bankers won’t relocate from London in an interview with the Guardian’s Andrew Sparrow.
He also called for pay ratios between the highest and lowest earners, said there might be case for corporate manslaughter at TFL over the Bow roundabout cycling deaths, said he wasn’t going to buy any more of the new Routemasters*, and used the word orgasm twice. Read the interview for more.
The Guardian – Ken Livingstone: It’s policies that matter this time, not personalities
*Everyone’s calling them Routemasters except for a small number of pedants who say they aren’t to be called Routemasters. These pedants may well be right.
**Please see the comments for a fair point raised aginst the assumptions behind this intro.
30 Jan 2012
Bad for Me by Brendan Benson
Brendan Benson channels his inner Elton to the nth degree on this track. It’s taken from new album What Kind of World, released April 23rd on his own Readymade label. Still one of the most underrated songwriters around.
27 Jan 2012
Last Night In LDN: Giana Factory @ Ja Ja Ja
Giana Factory played at Nordic music night Ja Ja Ja at The Lexington. Photos: Sebastien Dehesdin.
27 Jan 2012
27 Jan 2012
London agenda for Friday 27 January
1. View how Nick Drake’s Cello Song has affected people the world over at the Strange Face Project [Le Cool]
2. See Rizzle Kicks at XOYO while they are still nobodies [Run Riot]
3. Return to the Future at the Laundry [Flavorpill]
4. Visit the Latin Quarter special at Rich Mix [Don’t Panic]
5. Ponder do we need heroes? [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at the Queensbury Deli [Tired of London]
27 Jan 2012
There are almost three times as many empty homes in London as homeless people
The GLA have just released their empty homes audit. Here’s an interesting comparison.
Number of homes in London which have been empty for more than 12 months: 11,687 (2009-2010 data)
Number of people counted sleeping rough in London: 3,975 (2010-11 data)
Obviously it’s not as simple as putting the rough sleepers in the empty houses. Neither rough sleeping nor empty houses work like that. But the point remains. Things are a bit fucked up.
GLA London Empty Homes Audit
Broadway London Street to Home Report
27 Jan 2012
Star of "the Leveson Inquiry" David Allen Green speaks on scepticism next Monday
David Allen Green is a blogger who makes a lot of sense about things like the law, Twitter joke trials, computer hacking for news stories, libel, and all those sort of things.
He’s speaking at Skeptics in the Pub (their k, but go with it) on Monday in Hackney and it might be quite good.
26 Jan 2012
Knows Me Better by The Underground Man
Not much to go on with this guy – his website’s currently under construction. From what we can gather he’s a songwriter living in Brooklyn and his debut EP is pencilled in for a spring release. Today’s MPFree is the enjoyably diverting title track, ‘inspired in equal parts by the early songs of Cliff Richard and the novels of Jim Thompson’.
26 Jan 2012
Tonight in London - Giana Factory gig and Psychic Hearts book launch
Stuck for summat to do? Here are two cool things that are going on this eve in LDN town.
The brilliant young Danish trio pictured above, Giana Factory, are playing the Lexington tonight. Elements of Chicks on Speed, Telepathe and creative alt-rock influences combine into a band that is just teeming with potential.
And before that at Beach on Cheshire Street (just off Brick Lane), Velvet Cell launch “Psychic Hearts”, a book of dreamy, textured, evocative pictures by emerging photographer and music industry insider Sandra Croft. Buy it for £11 here.
Cool!
26 Jan 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
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