09 Aug 2011
An Argument With Myself by Jens Lekman
Having recently absconded from his native Gothenburg to the sunnier climes of Melbourne, 30-year-old Jens releases a brand new EP next month (September 19th to be precise), via Service/Secretly Canadian.
08 Aug 2011
Evin Donohoe: International Homewrecker
“Do we have anyone in from Sydney?” asks Antipodean comic Evin Donohoe a few minutes into his interminable hour-long set.
08 Aug 2011
Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated
The opening moments of Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated – heavy breathing on a blacked out stage, a performer lying motionless until she’s due to speak, the only feature of the set a series of ‘zones’ marked out with string – smack of a GCSE Drama composition.
08 Aug 2011
Arabella's Revenge
Starring two performers in twenty-odd roles including muzzled four-year-old Veronica, Pablo the nymphomaniac plumber and Kevin Spacey as the Orange Juice Monster, Arabella’s Revenge is clowning via the Goon Show and the League of Gentlemen.
08 Aug 2011
Iszi Lawrence's Wotnot
Iszi Lawrence describes herself as being just on the right side of tasteless, and I can’t argue – after all, who hasn’t occasionally thought about what they’d do to Colin Firth-era Mr Darcy if he’d drowned in that lake?
08 Aug 2011
Richard Tyrone Jones has a Big Heart
“My heart,” muses performance poet, quondam comedian and heart failure sufferer Richard Tyrone Jones, “rebelled against me like a cardiac Syria.”
08 Aug 2011
1 Mighty Craic Comedy Hour
There aren’t many comedians who are happy to have a full and frank discussion about the
comments they’ve noticed under a YouPorn video, but Henry Ginsberg appears to have sunk into such a pit of despair that none of it matters any more.
08 Aug 2011
Reality Vaccine Mind Illusion Show
Somewhere between Penn & Teller and that blond guy on The Mentalist who swans about solve crimes by grinning is my idea of a mentalist. An illusionist, but one who depends even more on psychology than on sleight of hand. This is also where Dr. Ian Souch, I believe, places himself.
08 Aug 2011
The Beggar's Opera
Am-dram theatre company YAP present a somewhat updated version of what is still a very funny play, squeezing an almost entirely female cast into flesh-spouting bodices and lacy thingie-things, with three-corner hats to set the period.
08 Aug 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
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