Insidious
Hoping to ride on the success of the bafflingly popular yet seemingly plot-less Paranormal Activity, and the relentlessly money-spinning blood-fest that is the Saw franchise, here comes yet another horror film centred on a demonic kid. Only, one gets the distinct impression that the makers wanted to take a well-worn horror concept to new heights of nightmarishness; sadly the result is pretty ridiculous.
29 Apr 2011
29 Apr 2011
She's Hit - Shimmer Shimmer
Sleazy garage rock from Glasgow’s She’s Hit, drawing comparisons with Mark E Smith and The Cramps. Released May 23rd on RE:PEATER RECORDS.
29 Apr 2011
Chad Valley - Fast Challenges
Chad Valley, aka Oxford resident and Jonquil frontman Hugo Manuel, has released a track from his forthcoming “Equatorial Ultravox” EP, out June 20th. It went supernova in the blogosphere yesterday – your gran has probably blogged it by now. It’s a distinctive take on tropical electronica that’s going to be the cool kids’ summer soundtrack of choice in 2011.
Chad Valley – Equatorial Ultravox – Fast Challenges by CASCINE
28 Apr 2011
Ranking the best looking men from last night's El Clasico
What an ugly game of football that was. Here, by way of compensation, are the best looking men from the night in ascending order of my mancrush on them.
5. Sergio Ramos
Sure, he’s a little feminine for some tastes. But along with Fernando Torres he made girly hair and delicate bone structure a part of top level football, and for that promotion of diversity he deserves only praise.
4. Xabi Alonso
Any man who looks like Arrested Development hero Jason Bateman is alright with me.
3. Pep Guardiola
José Mourinho may have the brooding petulance of a young Marlon Brando, but Guardiola has the twinkling poise of an old Robert Redford.
2. Gerard Piqué
I’d like to think Shakira got with Gerard because she appreciates his astute positioning and assured distribution. I suspect it might have more to do with his jawline. She’s so shallow.
1. Iker Casillas
If any man could tempt me into bi-curiousness, it’s Iker Casillas. The neat hair; the eyebrows, dark yet not too dark; the jaw, not chiselled so much as lovingly sandpapered into perfect form. And above all, the hands. Imagine those hands, strong and manly, plucking you from the air like a Jabulani and cradling you to his broad chest. Save me, Iker. Save me!
28 Apr 2011
London agenda for Thursday 28 April
1. Congratulate the Whitechapel’s new writer-in-residence, Information as Material Wait, what? [Le Cool]
2. Fuck the toffs, let’s party at the Grovenor [Run Riot]
3. Listen to a mix of sleazy bass beats that range from favela funk to dancehall with Diplo [Flavorpill]
4. Unravel the science behind beliefs in telepathy, clairvoyants, mediums, ghosts and more with Richard Wiseman [Ian Visits]
5. Play pétanque at Hay’s Galleria [Tired of London]
28 Apr 2011
No Seriously, Whose Boobs Are These?
Thanks, The Telegraph’s Lucy Jones, for posing this this serious, real journalist question and sending me on a regrettable, severely NSFW virtual scavenger hunt. I need answers! We all do. But thus far I’ve been unable to confirm or un-confirm whether this puzzling set of policy wonks belong to Lisa Nandy, as some in the comments suggest, or Gloria de Piero (doubtful). I can, however, with the utmost certainty promise that you should never ever in your wildest dreams run a Google search for “Norma Stitz”. I mean it.
27 Apr 2011
Poussez - Big City Burning
Nu-disco in the style of a harder, slicker sounding Caribou, Poussez are London production duo Jafar and Maxime Cescau, also head honchos at Artizan Music. Their Discuits EP is the first release on new London/Berlin imprint Champion Standard. Download the almost Vitalic-esque Big City Burning Rubber below.
27 Apr 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 27 April
1. Watch films about the only part of London that matters at the
East End Film Festival [Le Cool]
2. Stomp around Dalston with the finest DJs, musicians, artists & collectives at Land of Kings [Run Riot]
3. Hear some Oxford post-rock with Rock of Travolta [Flavorpill]
4. Listen to piano maestro Tim Minchin at the Royal Albert Hall [Time Out]
5. Hear about some whale bones found in the Thames [Ian Visits]
6. Hunt for books at the London Review Bookshop [Tired of London]
27 Apr 2011
Love To Get Used by Matt Pond PA
Channelling the raw song-writing credentials of Broken Social Scene, Matt Pond PA’s new EP Spring Fools is released today on Altitude Records. Download lead track Love To Get Used, via My Old Kentucky Blog.
26 Apr 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
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