Beat Connection, White Heat
24 May | Madam JoJos | 8-10 Brewer Street W1F 0SE
Beat Connection are a balearic pop duo from Seattle. Their debut EP “Surf Noir” sounds like an imagined beach party half-heard through a hazy mist of watery reverb, seagull song, laughter and lapping waves. Forthcoming single “In The Water” is all pulsing bass and a 4×4 beat, persuasive vocals and shimmering surf guitar. “Silver Screen” is an inviting pop number that sprouts from a processed pipe melody into a dreamy mini hit. They’re also the first signing to the Tender Age label, run by this month’s Snipe diarist Toby Bull, and amongst a flurry of London dates this headline date at Madame Jo Jo’s will show them off best.
12 May 2011
Heff off: sad day for left-leaning tweeters
In dismal news for pinko liberals on the internet, it is announced that Simon Heffer is leaving the Daily Telegraph to pursue other projects.
Whether calling for mass sackings in the public sector, lambasting politicians for wearing musical ties, or simply asking for bigger portions in British restaurants, Heffer was always good value for an outraged retweet. In his absence, only Melanie Phillips and the Daily Mail are left to prevent lefties having nothing to be outraged about at all. He will be sadly missed.
12 May 2011
Slut-shaming the anti-slut-shamers
Read this, if you wish, then come back here and listen to me yell.
Cool attitude, woman, very cool attitude. You know what’s very helpful to the human race? Sentences like this:
The highly educated young women who join SlutWalks are among the safest and most secure in the world. But you’d never know it from the fevered rhetoric.* According to one widely cited scare statistic* cooked up by the American Association of University Women, no fewer than 62 per cent of female students say they’ve been sexually harassed at university – a figure that is credible only if you include every incident of being groped by some 20-year-old drunk
Oh HA HA, BOOM! Young women being groped at school by drunk boys, you’ve just been served! Wait, what? Sorry, I think I jumped the gun on that. Are we not supposed to count incidents where young women are groped by young men against their will as sexual harassment? Because I thought … I mean isn’t that exactly what … OOF, this is hard.
Gotta hand it to crazy face Wente for slut-shaming the anti-slut-shamers, I guess. Love her closing argument that instead of standing up for what they believe in and making their voices heard for not just themselves, but those whose voices can’t be heard, these women should focus on something more important. Because it’s either/or in this world. Choose one issue or die. That’s how it works. I’ve been committed to ending peanut butter and jam apartheid for nearly 20 years now. (I chose too soon I think.) Or whatever. I mean, whatever it is that she deems more important than a worldwide movement that empowers young women.
Okay, keep getting paid lots of money to do your “job,” Margaret!
*LOL
The London Slutwalk takes place at 1pm, 11 June at Trafalgar Square.
12 May 2011
12 May 2011
Does anyone know what this L-shaped pool table is doing in Homerton?
I have never seen one of these before in my life. Do you just play with normal rules? Is it any good? What is it doing in the Adam and Eve pub in E9? All intelligence gratefully received.
12 May 2011
London agenda for Thursday 12 May
1. Watch a film where Germaine Smith meets every single one of her Facebook friends and filming their amusing real-life interactions at Social Cinema [Le Cool]
2. See some ‘comedy’ by Tommy and the Weeks & the Penny Dreadfuls [Run Riot]
3. Shake some arse for Japan with Goldie, Friction, London Elektricity, Scratch Perverts, High Contrast and Rockwell [Flavorpill]
4. Hear what its like to work at London’s great museums [Ian Visits]
5. Draw like Turner at the Tate Britain [Tired of London]
6. Take a rare chance to see inside over 130 artists studios at Woolwich’s Open Studios [Lauren Down]
12 May 2011
Planningtorock
16 May Electrowerkz | 7 Torrens Street EC1V 1NQ
Berlin-based, Bolton-born Janine Rostron, aka Planningtorock, has a followed a zig-zagging but ever-rising trajectory over the last few years. Starting out with an operatic electro 12” on her own Rostron Records label, she has since worked with Chicks On Speed, The Knife and Kevin Blechdom; her second album “W” will be released on May 17th via trailblazing NYC label DFA Records. Live, Rostron is a shamanic presence, using costume, dance, and her operatic, pulsing take on electronic music to whip up a sensuous audio-visual storm. Don’t miss this rare UK show.
11 May 2011
Chad Valley
11 May | Scala | 275 Pentonville Road N1 9NL
Oxford-based Hugo Manuel is a busy fella – when he’s not fronting Jonquil, he’s cooking up perfectly catchy electronic psychedelia as Chad Valley. The seven tracks on his forthcoming “Equatorial Ultravox” EP are never dull for a moment with new sounds coming at you from all directions; processed piano is adorned with synth squiggles, and harmonic ringing sings under vocodered male-female vocal interchanges. There’s a lot here to love – it’s like an upbeat Boards Of Canada. How it works live we’re curious to see, and Manuel takes Chad Valley to the big Scala stage on May 11th in support of Twin Shadow.
11 May 2011
Snipe's Theatre guide for May
Theatre editor Alan Hindle’s checks out every play running in London*.
- Every play may not be included.
11 May 2011
Theatre of the mind
The sunshine is crashing down, turning pale, jellyfish-faced Londoners into gleaming red lobsters. On such a beautiful weekend, the beginning, hopefully, of a beautiful summer, what you want is a long, torturous drive to a beach where you can sprawl on a blanket and drink Pimms until you pass elegantly unconscious. Around you the burbling voices of children laughing/screaming. The loose gossip of strangers floating on the sultry breeze. Your iPod is blaring this week’s pop revelation.
But maybe it could be blaring a piece of theatre?
11 May 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- 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
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
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