Watch this poor lady complaining that the country is being stolen from her forget that people have videos now
This lady on the Croydon Tram is awfully upset about the Poles and others who are stealing her country from her. Her fellow passengers don’t seem to agree.
28 Nov 2011
Huzzah, the Northern Line platform has re-opened at Tottenham Court Road station
Huzzah, the Northern Line platform has re-opened at Tottenham Court Road station.
28 Nov 2011
Boris Johnson booed for holding up play at ATP final
Boris Johnson’s atrocious timekeeping skills finally came back to bite him last night at the o2.
The Daily Mirror reports (via one Adam Bienkov)
The bumbling Mayor of London struck a massive fault as he distracted French star Tsonga in the ATP World Tour Final at the O2 in London. TV cameras showing the action live on BBC2 yesterday zoomed in to capture the excruciating moment the Tory blundered back to his seat. A BBC text commentary read: “BORIS STOPS PLAY! Tsonga has to check his serve as the Mayor of London bumbles to his seat.” The moment sparked a flurry of comments on Twitter before Federer went on to win the match in three sets. Adam Bienkov wrote: “Boris being booed by the crowd at the ATP World Tour final for holding up play. Oh dear.” He added: “Boris learning that his habit of being late for almost occasion not always appreciated.”
The Mayor is consistently late for events, believing apparently, that this adds to his charm.
It doesn’t, as residents of Croydon found out last week:
WHEN you are booked to make a major announcement about post riot regeneration for Croydon before 200 top businesspeople, it is a good idea to arrive on time. But things went dramatically wrong for London mayor Boris Johnson and delegates at the Develop Croydon conference were left waiting for about an hour to hear about his funding initiative… It appears his hassles started when, arriving late and on his own, at London Bridge, he leapt on the first train with an “East” on the destination board. Unfortunately the train was on its way to East Dulwich, not East Croydon.
This isn’t looking good for the Olympics is it?
28 Nov 2011
London agenda for Monday 28 November
1. Visit the ephemeral, half-remembered and easily lost memories of painter Wilhelm Sasnal at the Whitechapel [Le Cool]
2. Spend some time in a real crap flat at Three Blind Mice [Run Riot]
3. View the last Rotoreliefs short-film night for the year at Rich Mix [Don’t Panic]
4. Listen to the authors of three remarkable new London-based books discuss how and why the city has inspired and driven their work, and the enduring power of this vast, sprawling metropolis at London Unfurled [Ian Visits]
5. Wander in the East Greenwich Pleasuance [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
28 Nov 2011
London agenda for Friday 25 November
1. Eat steamed buns, gourmet hot dogs, burgers and Mediterranean delights set against the back-drop of the mighty fine Abbot Street at the Long Table [Le Cool]
2. View a mix of fine art, vintage costumery, cheeky ceramics, antique furniture and handmade jewellery at Guts for Garters [Run Riot]
3. Visit 80s synth-punk at Chromeo [Flavorpill]
4. Discuss the Deep Blue Sea with director Terence Davies [Don’t Panic]
5. Watch a manga cartoon set in the British Museum at Professor Munakata’s British Museum adventure [Ian Visits]
6. See the Monolith [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
25 Nov 2011
A reason to support next week's walkout as illustrated by woman in a pub
This week the South London Solidarity Federation won a seemingly small, but very important fight against an employer who had robbed a worker of their wages.
The employee was owed more than £700 by the manager of a pub in which she worked – work for which she had not been paid for six weeks. When she refused to turn up, she was sacked.
The manager of the pub apparently spent some time trying to fob the employee off with excuses, before simply refusing to answer phone calls or emails. In response, SolFed called for a picket of the pub.
24 Nov 2011
Ja Ja Ja
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road N1 9JB
This excellent night has run smoothly from being a new-gig-on-the-block to being one of the unmissable monthly nights on London’s gig calendar. Famous as much for a cosmopolitan crowd of scandophiles and industry insiders as the selection of up ‘n’ coming bands from the Nordic territories of Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland, it celebrates it’s second birthday with a great lineup. From Finland come slick indie-rockers French Films. and from Norway we get Marit Larsen. But the gem on the bill is Icelandic singer Sóley (also a player in the excellent Sin Fang, amongst others) with her intricate, loveable, lo-fi compositions.
24 Nov 2011
London agenda for Thursday 24 September
1. Join Le Cool to drink some free Palm Beer and hear about walking hidden rivers at Artesian Wanders [Le Cool]
2. Enter the dirtiest recesses of John Waters’ mind at the Working Man’s Club [Run Riot]
3. Be ambient with Oneohtrix at St. Giles in the Field Supported by Snipe’s Backbeat cover boy Babe Rainbow [Flavorpill]
4. Go prehistoric with Stone Cave 3 [Don’t Panic]
5. Go to a sample sale? Whatever [London Confidential]
6. Learn how to build your own Noah’s Ark [Ian Visits]
7. Find the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings arch [Tired of London]
24 Nov 2011
The Great Wen and the great squats of the 60s
Impressed by the Bank of Ideas? The Great Wen has a nice look at 1969s London Street Commune.
23 Nov 2011
Zola Jesus / EMA
Heaven, 9 The Arches WC2N 6NG
Russian/American siren Nika Roza brings her superior brand of spoky goth-pop to these shores yet again, in support of recent third long-player Conatus. Her partner in crime at London’s premier nightspot for triumphant and all conquering purveyors of US cool (everyone knows someone who saw The Strokes in 2001), is fellow California resident Erika M. Anderson, or EMA to all but her closest acquaintances. The former gowns frontwoman comes fresh from a recent barnstorming headline set at Cargo, no doubt beaming with pride following the almost unanimous praise heaped upon solo debut Past Life Martyred Saints.
23 Nov 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
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