Take Another Look by Maribou State
The latest addition to the Fat! Records family, Maribou State have just released their brand new pulsating, down-tempo electronic EP Habitat.
12 Aug 2011
Riots: Something Must Not Be Done
Here are some of the ideas that MPs floated in yesterday’s debate on What Must Be Done about the riots. I paraphase from Hansard.
Block social media in rioting areas – David Cameron
Round up rioters and lock them in Wembley stadium – Peter Tapsell
Introduce a tax allowance for married couples – Edward Leigh
Have another inquiry! – Ed Miliband
Make it illegal to spread riot rumours online – Iain Stewart
Spray indelible dye on protesters then catch them later – Andrea Leadsom
Close mobile phone masts in rioting areas – Tobias Ellwood
These ideas are demonstrably bonkers. What happens if some of the dye gets on an innocent bystander? What happens if by blocking Twitter you prevent people finding out that an area is unsafe? How will giving some married pensioners in Torquay a tax break prevent looting in Hackney? Crazy.
Alex Massie speaks sense:
Parliament may need to be recalled to give the impression that something is being done; most of the time, in circumstances such as these, it may be best if it only pretends to be doing something.
Everyone calm down, take a step back, and think about genuinely constructive long term measures which might prevent this happening again. Clue: indelible dye isn’t one of them.
12 Aug 2011
Way Out West Festival (Gothenburg)
This coming weekend sees the fourth annual Way Out West festival, held in Slottsskogen Park in central Gothenburg. With pint-sized pop enigma Prince, reformed Britpop heroes Pulp and opinion dividing, hip-hop irritant Kanye West headlining, the festival goes from strength to strength and at only £130 a ticket (it’s now sold-out unfortunately) it offers, along with many others in Europe, better value for money than the majority of British festivals, providing you book early enough. Snipe will be escaping riot-strewn London for the calmer surroundings of Sweden’s second city later this week; hopefully the dulcet tones of Ariel Pink, Robyn, Planningtorock and Low will provide a favourable alternative to police sirens and circling choppers.
12 Aug 2011
What would Chewbacca do?
Peter Mayhew says that Chewbacca would align with the Empire in riots. I think he’d grab a couple of Stormtroopers and sort it out, he tells the Mirror.
(H/T @norock )
12 Aug 2011
London agenda for Friday 12 August
1. Bask in the very best music, food, learning, literature and rejuvenation while in the lakes, forests and parkland of Cornbury. at Wilderness Festival [Run Riot]
2. Tear it up in XOYO at Drop The Lime with Bart B More + AC Slater [Flavorpill]
3. Watch an investigative look into the effects of Donald Trump’s proposed luxury golf resort being built on what conservationists call the “crown jewels” of Scotland’s natural wildlife at You’ve Been Trumped [Don’t Panic]
4. Wow, a rare screening of The London Nobody Knows [Ian Visits]
5. See Corin Sworn’s Endless Renovation [Tired of London]
12 Aug 2011
Out, Damned Spot
Lady Macbeth, eh? What an absolute psycho bitch; good riddance to bad Caledonian rubbish, say I. That’s about as deep as the traditional analysis of Shakespeare’s original devil woman goes, but writer and performer Emma Hutchins has rewritten the rule book with her intelligent, moving and superbly performed one-woman show Out, Damned Spot. Think of it as X-Men Origins: Lady Macbeth.
11 Aug 2011
Baton rounds have killed nine kids in Northern Ireland, so why not bring them here?
Why then does it continue to be acceptable to use plastic bullets in Ireland but never on the British Mainland?
11 Aug 2011
London agenda for Thursday 11 August
1. Check out a new Bloomsbury gallery by seeing All Things Bright and Beautiful [Le Cool]
2. Try 101 Harmless Scientific Experiments At Home [Run Riot]
3. Learn the truth about scientists at Brain Fever [Flavorpill]
4. Revel in the truth at Psychologist [Don’t Panic]
5. Find out how to build your own Berlin Wall [Ian Visits]
6. Buy books at the Kennington Bookshop [Tired of London]
11 Aug 2011
Because It's Wrong by Digits
We here at Snipe have come across Toronto’s Alt Altman, trading under the name Digits, before. Though not without merit, his music has previously lacked a little bite.
10 Aug 2011
Daylords Return
Daylords Return, the sequel to character comedy double act Morris & Vyse’s 2010 show Daylords, returns its incredulous audience to the eponymous ITV7 daytime show.
10 Aug 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
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