Don't miss tonight: Chilly Gonzales
Chilly Gonzales is an interesting dude. A friend of Peaches, the lumbering Canadian came to the fore as lumbering, cocky, mischievous rapper during the first wave of Electroclash: he was soon scene royalty and even his performing in a bright pink safari suit was somehow construed to be cool.
28 Sept 2011
The five most beautful stolen watches in Tower Hamlets
The police recovered lots of watches in some raids back in July, and now they have put them on Flickr for their owners to claim. Go look. Some of them are real pretty.
28 Sept 2011
London agenda for Thursday 28 September
1. Watch Warhol’s Chelsea girls at the Southbank [Le Cool]
2. See a radical reworking of The Brilliant and the Dark [Run Riot]
3. Head down to CAMP for When Saints Go Machine [Flavorpill]
4. Be mesmerised by some top magicians and a single by Mike Marlin at Hoxton Hall [DOn’t Panic]
5. Play some classic video games in real life [Time Out]
6. Find out how some people’s homes become museums [Ian Visits]
7. Drink on the terrace at the Cut Bar [Tired of London]
28 Sept 2011
Terra Incognita by Atlas Sound
Terra Incognita is taken from Parallax, Bradford Cox’s first release under the moniker Atlas Sound since 2010’s Bedroom Databank.
27 Sept 2011
Hackney has a death cafe where strangers eat cake and talk about oblivion
UPDATE: Read our review of an afternoon at the death cafe here.
Jayd Kent went to it.
I attended something called a ‘Death Cafe’ today. I was terrified at the concept of sitting in a room, with a random group of people I had never met, to talk about the one thing that terrifies me more than anything in the world – death. I had been worrying about it quietly all week.
The cafe seeks to promote a healthy openness about our inevitable march into the remorseless jaws of doom. And while we’re chatting about death, yesterday I chanced upon this quote by Jonathan Franzen:
…the fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair.
Makes you think, doesn’t it? Now then, who’s for a nice cup of tea?
27 Sept 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 27 September
1. Discuss politics with Martin Bell [Le Cool]
2. Get shown the ropes at Madam Coco de Mer’s bondage workshop [Run Riot]
3. Afterwards, watch Naked Girls read Fairy Tales [Flavorpill]
4. Head over to the Shacklewell Arms for Walls [Don’t Panic]
5. Get lost in secret tunnels and hidden passageways [Ian Visits]
6. Walk in Bedfont Lakes Country Park [Tired of London]
27 Sept 2011
Opportunity by Brasstronaut
This is the first release from Vancouver’s Brasstronaut since 2010’s Mount Chimaera.
26 Sept 2011
The wretched idiocy of the talking bins
So it’s come to this.
Famous people could be congratulating you for throwing your rubbish away responsibly in talking bins. Actress Amanda Holden has recorded a message saying “Yes! Do that again!”
26 Sept 2011
London agenda for Monday 26 September
1. Have an amazing night of interactive entertainment, hosted by the Ministry of Stories, Brummie spoken word artist Polar Bear, five-piece troupe The Great Brain Robbery, and singer-songwriter Kami Thompson at Back to School [Le Cool]
2. See the jests and japes of Doctor Brown [Run Riot]
3. Watch Jirí Weiss’s ‘Romeo, Juliet and Darkness’ and Andrzej Munk’s ‘Passenger’ at Second Run DVD [Don’t Panic]
4. Suppose one could do worse than A Classical Affair with Stephen Fry [Time Out]
5. Listen to the first editor discuss the creation of Dr. Who Weekly [Ian Visits]
6. Buy books at West End Lane Books [Tired of London]
26 Sept 2011
New Noise With Jon Hillcock
We thoroughly recommend this podcast series by Xfm and NME Radio man Jon Hillcock. Wonderful weekend listening.
24 Sept 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- 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
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
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