London agenda for Thursday 13 October
1. See the future of art, today, at The Future Can Wait/New Sensations [Le Cool]
2. Then really get ones’ art world shaken up at the Village Underground’s Moniker Art Fair [Run Riot]
3. Listen to the Trinidad tradition of “liming”: idle chat elevated to performance art at Rich Mix [Flavorpill]
4. Hear Ali Samadi Ahadi’s moving account of Iran’s 2010 Green Revolution at The Green Wave [Don’t Panic]
5. Study suffering, revenge and madness at the opening night of Death and the Maiden [Time Out]
6. Find out that many London buildings are replicas at Fakes and Fallacies [Ian Visits]
7. See Art by Offenders at the Southbank Centre [Tired of London]
13 Oct 2011
Archive film of a chimp cycling round London
British Pathe have shared this classic from their brilliant archive. It’s a well-dressed chimp, of 1948 vintage, riding a bike around the city. It’s not cruel, because it’s for a film, see? Can anyone recognise the locations?
13 Oct 2011
Gold Fools by Spanish Prisoners
Gold Fools, the new album from Brooklyn quartet Spanish Prisoners, is as eclectic as it is tuneful, bringing to mind The Flaming Lips and Deerhunter amongst others.
12 Oct 2011
Archaeological finds get chucked on a skip, and other secrets of the Museum of London
They are being discarded because, and this is a brutal thing to hear, they have very little archaeological merit. History ouch.
12 Oct 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 12 October
1. Talk about the UK’s underground rock press from the 70s until now at Caught By The River Fanzine Night [Le Cool]
2. Use alchemy to dream up some pictures from the Book of Sleep [Run Riot]
3. Get spooked on Great Portland Street at Look to the Sky [Don’t Panic]
4. Give up – it’s the end of the world [Ian Visits]
5. Walk in Brockwell Park Walled Garden [Tired of London]
12 Oct 2011
Head In The Clouds by Cobalt Cranes
A menacing and characteristically LA slice of grungy-shoegaze from Cobalt Cranes, taken from the first in a series of free digital EPs from the LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP: EP CLUB.
11 Oct 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 11 October
1. Celebrate the 5th anniversay of Poejazzi with Scroobius Pip, Radio 4’s Bespoken Word host Mista Gee, Nikesh Shukla, Cornelia, and Rosie Sleightholme at CAMP [Le Cool]
2. Say sorry, and mean it, in Kilburn [Run Riot]
3. Plan to rock with Planningtorock [Flavorpill]
4. Look at the art of Saudi army lieutenant colonel in the Saudi army Abdulnasser Gharem at the Frontline [Don’t Panic]
5. Discuss the corporate identity of Transport for London [Ian Visits]
11 Oct 2011
Tape by Jewellers
Today sees the release of the debut long-player from Newport’s Jewellers.
10 Oct 2011
London agenda for Monday 10 October
1. Watch a TIm Burton double-bill at the Prince Charles [Le Cool]
2. Hear some tall tales from the London Storytelling Festival [Run Riot]
3. View Rem Koolhaas’s 1960s mythical cinematic exploits The White Slave and 1,2,3 Rhapsody at Architecture on Film [Don’t Panic]
4. Look at the architectural dig of the Theatre in Shoreditch [Ian Visits]
5. See Henry Moore’s Large Standing Figure Knife Edge [Tired of London]
10 Oct 2011
Time for Toast: Graffiti crew prepares for their close-up
The Toasters are waiting for me outside of an ivy coated Irish pub on a side street behind Finsbury Park Station. The three of them, known as Toaster A, Toaster B and Toaster D (the joke being where’s Toaster C?)
07 Oct 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
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