Sykur - Shed Those Tears
Sykur are a teenaged Icelandic electro-pop trio from Reykjavik. Having just finished school, they’re releasing their first single, “Shed Those Tears”, in September. It’s so catchy it’s like a tattoo on your brain. Get a free (more downbeat) remix by FM Belfast here.
28 Jun 2011
Smoking on the tube causes decapitation
A Tube worker who was on the train said: “A passenger was smoking between the carriages. He slipped and fell on to the tracks while the train was moving at 50mph. He was decapitated. This shows just how dangerous messing around between the carriages is.”
Horrid. Stay safe kids.
Source: The Sun via Annie Mole
28 Jun 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 28 June
1. View 40 years of amazing photos by a French Chicagoan nanny at Vivian Maier [Le Cool]
2. Party with the artists whose works trace the nexus between photographic aesthetics and ethnographic investigation at Protocol [Run Riot]
3. Check out the posters of the Moulin Rouge [Flavorpill]
4. Listen to Max Mosley talk about privacy [Ian Visits]
5. Window-shop at the Pullman Gallery [Tired of London]
28 Jun 2011
You're Almost There by Lanterns On The Lake
Newcastle’s Lanterns On The Lake release debut album Gracious Tide, Take Me Home later this year – September 19th on the achingly tasteful Bella Union label to be precise. Check out current free download, the haunting, atmospheric You’re Almost There below and prepare to be taken to an icy, though not entirely uncomfortable emotional destination.
27 Jun 2011
Decisions, Decisions
The media loves to tell us what to do. We absorb advice and values from TV doctors, faceless web commentators, celebrity Tweeters, and the front page of the daily papers almost without thinking about it. We are so used to this that we routinely mistake hectoring for empowerment. When faces on the TV tell us how we should dress, what we should feed our children, what kind of car to drive, and where to go on holiday, we accept the underlying message that: you’re not smart enough to figure this out on your own. The expert bullying has been around for a while. Back in 1965 Mick Jagger snarled about a man on the TV telling him how white his shirts could be and the barrage of advice has grown faster and more furious since.
27 Jun 2011
For cystisis I was treated wrong...
So begins a wonderfully eccentric epitaph on a gravestone in North Sheen cemetery near Richmond. Click here to read the rest. It’s got a stunning twist.
27 Jun 2011
Lauren, knitting pioneer and founder of Stitch London
Lauren, organiser of Stitch London, is an ambitious believer in the power of knitting to give people a meaningful connection with their environment. I found her at a Stitch London meeting, where knitting enthusiasts meet together to knit and socialise. I scoured the restaurant near Waterloo for the flash of knitting needles and slowly people started to emerge with their yarn, some in groups chatting, others staring ahead defiantly as if focusing on some far off knitting mecca. I found Lauren amongst them to find out how her small idea has grown into a global phenomenon.
27 Jun 2011
London agenda for Monday 27 June
1. Have a breakdown with some women at the BFI [Le Cool]
2. Listen to one of the Catalan artists discuss Miro [Run Riot]
3. See a circus, cabaret and deviant performances at the Postcard Festival on Jackson Lane [Flavorpill]
4. Hear some lawyer discuss how the enlightenment permeates the US Constitution [Ian Visits]
5. See Peter Burke’s ‘Assembly’ [Tired of London]
27 Jun 2011
How to get pissed cheaply and greenly
No surprise that Dalston is leading the way. Refill your wine bottles for £6 a pop, and don’t bother with all that nasty packaging. Surely the days of public wine fountains cannot be far away.
24 Jun 2011
It's time to end all the "sex acts"
Why can’t we just call a spade a spade? This headline from This is Croydon is a case in point.
Man, 72, performed sex act while naked at window
Surely ought to be rewritten as:
Man, 72, masturbated while naked at window
And this headline from the Daily Mail:
Pervert tax consultant posed as Harrods’ modelling agent to trick women into bizarre sex acts
Really ought to read:
Pervert tax consultant posed as Harrods’ modelling agent to trick women into measuring him naked
These are unpleasant things to do. We don’t need add the glamour of mystery to them by being all coy about their names.
24 Jun 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Diary of the shy Londoner
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
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