Meet band tour sleeper bus driver, Pappy
In a café in Washington DC I sat with a tour bus driver known as Pappy. He was eating a large bowl of chili and launching into a story about touring with a group who had once tried to trash his bus.. “So I drove way out into the Nevada desert and had a pistol in one hand and was throwing their bags out the bus with the other”.. I really need to learn to press the record button on my dictaphone faster. Pappy has lived through the heyday of rock n’ roll excess and driven some of the biggest names across America. While band members are asleep in their bunks, Pappy drives through the night to the next city, hundreds of miles away. Everyday he wears a chunky ring adorned with a giant diamond, personally given to him by Willy Nelson and his stories of years on the road pour out of him.
14 Nov 2011
London agenda for Monday 14 November
1. Watch some classic films in a pop-up cinema in Bayswater [Le Cool]
2. Head to the Union Chapel to hear the Secret Sisters [Run Riot]
3. View some exceptional photographs from both established and emerging talent, including Tim Flach, Herb Ritts, Eve Arnold and Sarah Moon, in benefit of PhotoVoice [Flavorpill]
4. Watch (and stay for the Q&A) Akex Reuben’s recordings of social, cultural and political events from the streets of London at Newsreels [Don’t Panic]
5. Discover 10 bonkers things about the universe [Ian Visits]
6. Visit St Mary Aldermary [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
14 Nov 2011
Runners, jumpers and throwers invited back
Everyone else told to do one.
Source: London To Host 2017 World Athletics Championships by Londonist
11 Nov 2011
Ali Renault @ The Baby Bathhouse
125 Church Street Stoke Newington N16 0UH
Ali Renault used to be half of italo-pop dup Heartbeak. Like many others, the band fell victim to the relentless conveyor belt of adored-today, ditched-tomorrow new acts chewed up and spat out by the NME. But they had camp, abrasive drama aplenty, as does monsieur Renault’s debut solo album, albeit it on a darker tangent. It’s a record aimed squarely for London’s throbbing sweatbox dancefloors, and if that’s your thing, get down to the Baby Bathhouse on November 11th. With free entry it’s sure to be, as they say in ‘clubland’, a road block
11 Nov 2011
There's no question that "Shamon Chicken" is how Michael Jackson would have liked to be commemorated
Tonight’s Come Dine with Me features Keith Preddie, from Croydon.
“The Michael Jackson fanatic served a halloumi and chilli salad to start, “Shamon chicken” (with mozzarella in tomato sauce) for his main and “Dirty Diana” (banana delight, chocolate sponge and cream) for pudding.”
The starter sounds delicious.
“Guest Sarah-Marie Palmer [said] she would not serve his food to people in prison, her worst enemy or a dog.”
Source: This is Croydon
11 Nov 2011
London agenda for Friday 11 November
1. Listen to David Harvey Lecture, who is sick to death of capitalism [Le Cool]
2. Don’t say neigh to Internet week at the Horse Hospital [Run Riot]
3. Watch Neil LaBute’s new play Reasons to be Pretty [Flavorpill]
4. Watch a live video projection on a building that has been badly affected by arson during the riots at Offret [Don’t Panic]
5. Visit the The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman by Grayson Perry [Time Out]
7. Discuss disease amongst dock workers during the years 1834 – 1870 [Ian Visits]
8. Find Reuter’s Bust [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
11 Nov 2011
Meat Liquor and Tinseltown
Meat, Liquor (left), Tinseltown (right)
Carnivores can celebrate the opening of two new meat houses in Central London.
The first, Tinseltown has long been the choice of drunks in Farringdon and Bayswater looking for something better than the local kebab shop. Large, American-style burgers and milkshakes keep the lines long, late into the night.
The other, Meat Liquor, is the third incarnation of burger bliss. Originally it was the Meat Wagon, a secretive truck that travelled throughout South London, creating fans in its wake. After the van was stolen, it re-generated as the MeatEasy, a pop-up atop a New Cross pub. Number three, Meat Liquor, is is located in an abandoned Italian resto, behind the Oxford Street House of Fraser, and beside Sophisticats, a venue that is neither sophisticated nor contains cats.
Tinseltown 35 Great Portland Street W1W 8QQ
Meat Liquor 74 Welbeck Street, W1G 0BA
10 Nov 2011
Airspray by Civil Civic
Blog favourites Civil Civic sound almost like a more considered, less belligerent Pendulum (what an awful band Pendulum are, like being shouted at by four blokes on cheap speed while their shy, weedy mate plays guitar badly in the background) and have been making dangerous looking waves with their brand of highly danceable, quirky math-pop. Airspray is taken from debut long-player Rules and you can catch the duo at the Sebright Arms in Bethnal Green next Thursday (Nov 17th).
Civil Civic – Airspray by snipelondon
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10 Nov 2011
How to be a protestor
Thanks to the Occupy movement and the howl of the 99%, the oft-derided hobby of protesting is no longer confined exclusively to bearded drop outs and long-winded undergraduates. So, who’s doing it, and should you be one of them?
10 Nov 2011
Booze: bringing policemen and protesters closer together
“A source” who’s a bit confused about what “globalist” means tells The Sun about PC Gary Withers, who got pissed in town and ended up passing out in the Occupy LSX camp. If only the police and protesters could get smashed together more often, just think how much better the world would be.
10 Nov 2011
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