London agenda for Friday 7 October
1. Watch the 1933 King Kong with a soundtrack of Sigur Ros and Black Sabbath via Portishead DJ’d by Radio 1’s Rob Da Bank at Sonic Cinema [Le Cool]
2. Get locked-up in the Tower and draw [Run Riot]
3. Listen to electronica duo Plaid at Village Underground [Flavorpill]
4. Watch an 8-minute long film directed by artist Moebius at Ciné Lumière [Don’t Panic]
5. Spin some straw into gold at Alchemy and Patronage [Ian Visits]
6. Explore the Images of Nature Gallery [Tired of London]
07 Oct 2011
Paxman butters up Boris - as his real BBC inquisitors are threatened with cuts
Aww, sweet. Forget scrutinising the most important man in London, let’s cosy up to him instead!
06 Oct 2011
Economy now so screwed it's threatening incomprehensible ball-based jamborees
The public are so busy dutifully paying off their credit cards they can’t afford tickets to watch overgrown Americans running into each other and shouting a lot at Wembley. Oh NFL, we’d still love you if we could. You aren’t too big and overblown. It’s the people who got small.
Source – Beeb
06 Oct 2011
The Josh Hall column: The dilettantes running the Tories are winning
Finally, finally, conference season is over. Three weeks of absurd pantomime, amateurish attempts at rousing spectacle, and insipid speeches seeping with fetid after-dinner jokes about incompetent colleagues. The whole thing is like a protracted public school awards show.
06 Oct 2011
When Saints Go Machine - Parix
The best emergent band of 2011 When Saints Go Machine release another great video, this time for the flexing, serpentine pop of ‘Parix’, taken from their brilliant debut “Konkylie”. Catch them live on the Koko’s big stage in support of the Apparat Band on October 20th.
05 Oct 2011
It's Skateboarders vs Ferrets in Woolwich square
Yobs on wheels ruining Woolwich’s General Gordon Square, say locals. The News Shopper gets the money quote.
05 Oct 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 5 October
1. Sure, SNIPE has questioned the true damages suffered by labels in the PIAS fire but it will still be a blow-out benefit tonight at Label Love Present a PIAS Fire Benefit
2. Just be generally weirded out by Eugene Mirman and friends [Run Riot]
3. Get excited by electronic trio Brandt Brauer Frick [Flavorpill]
4. Listen to Cardiff/London-based band Paper Aeroplanes in Riverside Cinema [Don’t Panic]
5. Drink whiskey and watch The Usual Suspects [Time Out]
6. Hear about Ian Fleming’s commando past [Ian Visits]
7. See (Now That Would Be) Telling at Dr Johnson’s House [Tired of London]
05 Oct 2011
"The people want the fall of the regime" is a message that Westminster council doesn't want to hear
Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr’s plan this week to cut the grass of Hanover Square into a Kufic inscription of “The people want the fall of the regime,” chanted by Arab Spring demonstrators, has been called off.
04 Oct 2011
Becoming a headphone zombie makes you safer at crossing the road
The Atlantic reports on this American study:
…music players had no impact on a pedestrian’s ability to cross the street. Women showed no difference in cautionary behavior whether or not they were listening to music, while men actually paid more attention to traffic with ear phones in than without any distraction.
So that’s one more reason to plug those headphones into your ears, crank up the volume like morphine, blot out your fellow ants and retreat away from this crumbling desolate world.
04 Oct 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- 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?
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
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