London agenda for 19 Wednesday October
1. Draw the 7 Deadly Sins in their naked shame at the Book Club [Le Cool]
2. Learn the art of good listening (music division) at Carnivale [Run Riot]
3. View a film in its original Mandarin at Parasol Unit’s Street Angel [Don’t Panic]
4. Walk around Shoreditch using old maps [Ian Visits]
5. Drink at the Duke of Hamilton [Tired of London]
19 Oct 2011
En Garde by Puzzle Muteson
This is a rather nice cut from a free EP released by Iceland’s Bedroom Community label. The Airwaves 11 EP features Ben Frost, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Daníel Bjanarson and today’s MPFree artist Puzzle Muteson.
18 Oct 2011
Occupy London: It's not the beginning of the end, it is, perhaps, the beginning of the beginning
OccupyLSX is a remarkable, amorphous thing. In 72 hours it has passed through at least four distinct iterations.
18 Oct 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 18 October
1. Learn, from the School of Life, How to Make a Difference [Le Cool]
2. Get the popcorn, as it’s time for Primate Cinema [Run Riot]
3. Visit Lord Gnome’s V&A office at Private Eye: The First 50 Years [Flavorpill]
4. Welcome Al Wei Wei’s freedom by visiting his exhibit, Fairytale – 1001 chairs [Don’t Panic]
5. Discuss the scourge of postmodern architecture with one of its disciples, Terry Farrell [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at Xinjiang Style Chinese Cuisine [Tired of London]
18 Oct 2011
The anarchists are coming, and this time they're organised
Tony Wood supports Tottenham Hotspur, looks like Keith Allen on a good day, and wants to abolish all forms of money. He’s also one of the organisers of this Saturday’s 2011 Anarchist Bookfair. So, is he dangerously insane? Or has the time for anarchy finally arrived?
17 Oct 2011
Wapusk by Kathleen Edwards
We’ve been sitting on this for a while here at Snipe. Now seems like the perfect time to share it. The single’s out today via ZoeRounder Records.
17 Oct 2011
London agenda for Monday 17 October
1. Go to the Book Club’s Science Fair and make a volcano [Le Cool]
2. Go into insulin shock with cute Japanese art at Bye Bye Kitty [Run Riot]
3. Watch a doc on a Nebraska police officer serving as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia who uncovered a sex trafficking scandal and exposed U.N attempts to cover it up. She’s The Whistleblower [Don’t Panic]
4. Debate why we should build the Super Sewer [Ian Visits]
5. Go for a walk in Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery [Tired of London]
17 Oct 2011
London agenda for Friday 14 October
1. Head over to Corisca studios for Double Trouble Vision [Le Cool]
2. See where theatre’s boundaries begin at Experimental Weekend [Run Riot]
3. See the conquest of technology at the Rio’s At the Heart of Everything a Row of Holes [Don’t Panic]
4. Scarf some wine and cheese, all over town, at the Autumn Win & Cheese Festival [Time Out]
5. Hear a talk that involves both cosmic rays and ‘snide remarks by Cicero’ at Foretold by thunder: an Etruscan book of omens revealed [Ian Visits]
6. See From Garden City to Green City at the Garden Museum [Tired of London]
14 Oct 2011
Reaching Through to the Other Side by My Brightest Diamond
A characteristically eerie but optimistic cut from Sandra Worden, taken from her new album All Things Will Unwind, out now on Asthmatic Kitty.
13 Oct 2011
Like peasants, we beg the Lords for health care. Like Lords, they said 'bugger off'
Here’s the story so far: unelected government writes Bill intended to dismantle the NHS – a Bill no one wants, and which was not contained in any manifesto. Government pushes Bill through Parliament with relative ease.
13 Oct 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
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