Nameless//Faceless (Bloc Party vs CoPilots Remix) by Rapids!
Bloc Party’s Russell Lissack has re-worked the closing track from Rapids! new EP Fragments, twisting the fairly standard gloom/math rock of Nameless//Faceless into a total party banger.
30 Aug 2011
Luke Toulson: Laid-Back Grouch
Like so many comics I’m seeing at the Camden Fringe, Luke Toulson is much funnier interacting with the audience than delivering set material, and when things go wrong he has gear up to salvage the show. Wisely, then, Toulson has made a show with very little material, a whole lot of chatting with the audience, and plenty of opportunities to fuck up. Or, perhaps I lucked out on the night, as there can’t be that many audiences out there containing people whose job description is “Thai Ping Pong Dancer,” or “Tasmanian Illegal Gaming Site So I Can’t Tell You Who There Are Or They Will Have To Kill Us All.” The show was sold out the night before, and doing the barest minimum of research I found Toulson is a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe and won some awards for stuff, so chances are it will be full tonight as well. However, Toulson, while funny and I certainly laughed, delivers an even amount of average laughter, a level carpet of humour- with a reasonably thick shag, but with few outstanding thrills. Perhaps I like my comedy graph a bit spikier. I’m happy to sit through lulls if they lead suddenly to LOLs. (I don’t really know any Txt slang, I just know that one because some twelve year-olds were using it in conversation on the bus and I am apparently the sort of person who eavesdrops on 12-year-olds for writing tips.)
30 Aug 2011
The Pauly Show
Paul F. Taylor, AKA Pauly, has always dreamed of having his own sitcom. His mother, apparently not knowing the damage she was doing to her child, indulged by watching his little shows in the living room, featuring the family dog and all the fruit in the house. She even laughed. Will parents never learn? Today Paul is a lanky, hirsute, goofy, unemployed and unemployable comedian living on canned chuckles in a CGI house (filmed against the “red screen” of the Camden Head curtains) with a rotating cast of friends and dogs, depending on who’s in the audience. On the night I saw the show there were only seven of us in the room and half of us wound up as guest-stars. And that is a criminal shame. (And poor use of math, since that makes for 3 and a half guest stars. Having half a guest on your stage probably is criminal.) The show is brilliant, with a bit of Harry Hill about Taylor. The “plot” is as worthless as you could hope for, and while Taylor’s jokes are excellent, it’s better when he gets them wrong, or they don’t get a laugh and he has to scramble to find it elsewhere. He does seem to exhaust himself, petering out towards the end, suffering from nipple-sweats and occasional desperate muggings. But I loved the show and hopefully he’ll see fuller rooms for future shows. Where the hell is everybody? At home, watching My Family.
30 Aug 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 30 August
1. Get locked in an art exhibit with Ryan Gander [Le Cool]
2. Be bizarred out by Italian horror flicks, Toby Dammit and Baba Yaga [Run Riot]
3. Really? Jane’s Addiction? [Don’t Panic]
4. Explore secret tunnels around Tower Bridge [Ian Visits]
5. Take the Ice Age Tree Trail [Tired of London]
30 Aug 2011
Free agent by Simian Ghost
Simian Ghost is the brainchild of Aerial’s Sebastian Arnström.
26 Aug 2011
26 Aug 2011
25 Aug 2011
The Zone by The Weeknd
We first introduced you to Abel Tesfaye – it seems The Weeknd is a solo act rather than a duo as first reported – back in March.
24 Aug 2011
The Last Mad Dash to a Nervous Breakdown
This is the final week of the Camden Fringe and there are still so many opportunities to see both crap and shining gems. Good luck and take as many chances as you can. A possible tip might be Luke Toulson: Laid-Back Grouch at the Camden Head pub tonight and tomorrow at 8pm. I went last night and was turned away from a sold-out room. A full house for the first night of a Fringe gig is rare, so obviously folks know about this guy and there might be something to it. Book online to avoid being disappointment, like the several other people who were waiting with me. Maybe they did get in after all. Toulson did say he expected at least some people to leave during the show. “I’m pretty bad,” he muttered.
Also at the Camden Head, for one night, the 28th, Leisa Rea sings and plays guitars and banjos and ukuleles with Sarah Adams. Rea’s Pension Plan (see review) was excellent and the thought of seeing her coping with both life and a tiny guitar seems like a nice treat to end the Fringe with.
The Camden Fringe continues until 28 August at various venues. See their site at camdenfringe.org
24 Aug 2011
Rob Deb: A Comic Book Guy!
Rob Deb lives with his family, probably in the basement, hunched over his computer, stacks of comics, multi-sided die and D&D encyclopaedias, eating pizza and dreaming of women he has seen depicted in hand-painted lead figurines as dryads.
24 Aug 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
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