Time Out editor leaving at end of the month, also, current issue has 8 Harry Potter covers
Tourist guide to luxury London, Time Out, is saying goodbye to Mark Frith after two years. Frith previously edited Heat magazine and, as the current edition features eight separate covers of the teen hearthrobs of Harry Potter, Snipe is certain that he’ll be missed.
12 Jul 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 12 July
1. Have one’s ears blown by The Joy Formidable for free at Rough Trade [Le Cool]
2. Watch Isy Suttie sing heart-breakers [Run Riot]
3. Play poker with hipsters at the Drunken Monkey [Flavorpill]
4. Tell the smartie-pants palaeontologists that the Sasquatch is indeed real at Cryptozoology: Science or Pseudoscience? [Ian Visits]
5. Admire the Hotel Russell [Tired of London]
12 Jul 2011
So Londoners, what do you want to be when you're dead?
The London Funeral Exhibition was on over the weekend. Snipe didn’t go, regrettably, but we read the blog of someone who did. And Sue Bailey doesn’t want to be cremated any more:
I spent an utterly brilliant day at the London Funeral Exhibition at Epping Forest Burial Park…Burial at the park is done in an environmentally sustainable way: that means biodegradable coffins, wooden memorials only, in land that – once it’s full – will revert to natural woodland…I like the idea of feeding trees very much.
I still maintain hopes of being interred in a gigantic mausoleum carved in the shape of my own face, located on a specially built island in the middle of the Thames. What are your plans, readers?
11 Jul 2011
London agenda for Monday 11 July
1. Go undercover into Eastern European sex-trafficking with The Price of Sex [Le Cool]
2. Explore 17th Century Freemasonry and then pull the puppet strings for generations. [Ian Visits]
3. Book a ticket for The Space [Tired of London]
4. Feel the power of Anvil! [London Gigs]
11 Jul 2011
Future Islands - Before The Bridge
Future Islands – Before the Bridge from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.
The art-pop construction that is Future Islands seems to get better and better. After their 2010 album-of-the-year contender “In Evening Air”, they return this autumn with a follow up, “On The Water”; the first single from which has just been released. The video is above, and you can download the track for free below.
10 Jul 2011
Phone hacking: Mayor Boris gets confused
This week, it was revealed the paper’s targets included murder victims, the relatives of those killed on 7/7, and the families of dead soldiers.
08 Jul 2011
She Makes War's East End street art bike tour
Here’s an interesting new video from She Makes War, aka Laura Kidd, in which we’re taken on a two-wheeled tour of East End street art. Kidd has created a microsite for the video, complete with a graffiti location map, photos and extra footage. Her debut album is out on Monday.
08 Jul 2011
London agenda for Friday 8 July
1. Prepare for tomorrow’s 1234 Shoreditch at the pre-party [Le Cool]
2. Play ping-pong at Wilton’s Music Hall, a venue that probably will fall down if a ball hits a wall [Run Riot]
3. Watch Ian McKellan as a fascist king in Richard III [Flavorpill]
4. Watch the amazing Tree of Life by Terence Mallick [Time Out]
5. Talk about navigating the Thames from 2000 BC to 2010 CE, in a floating church [Ian Visits]
6. Drink at the Angelsea Arms [Tired of London]
08 Jul 2011
The Black Diamond
Passing security in their black suits and shades, I descended the plunging stairwell to what seemed the basement of my craziest aunt in 2011, only to wind up in the dark, cluttered Shoreditch bolthole of my richest, most eccentric French uncle in 1963.
07 Jul 2011
Hanging On by Active Child
Active Child, a.k.a. producer, singer-songwriter, harpist Pat Grossi, has contributed a new song to the Adult Swim Singles Program – they’re releasing a free digital single every week for ten weeks; artists have included Best Coast, How To Dress Well and Mastadon. The spine-tingling falsetto of Hanging On will also be available on debut album You’re All I See, released August 23rd via Vagrant. Grossi will be touring the U.S. with Oxford’s pop star in waiting and Snipe favourite Chad Valley throughout September. Hopefully we’ll see this inspired pairing slay U.K. audiences with their futuristic brand of soulful man-pop very soon.
07 Jul 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
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