Stop machine by Snorkel
This South London-based collective have spent the last year ‘experimenting in their…studio’, putting together second album Stop Machine – released May 9th, through Slowfoot records. The press release describes their music as ‘electro-aquatic-kraut-afro-funk’. I prefer the term ‘jazzy’, but whatever, its pretty good stuff – interesting, dynamic, exciting – even if the intro to the title track sounds a little like the Venga Boys.
10 Mar 2011
Fire authority chair to Qadaffi Squatters: "A Blight to the Area"
Councillor Brian Coleman comes out against those occupying Qadaffi’s Hampstead Garden Suburb mansion.
10 Mar 2011
It Could Be Worse: We Could All Have Knives for Penises
We share about 96% of our DNA with chimpanzees — luckily that missing 4% included gene that turns their genitals into spiny weapons.
10 Mar 2011
A nation of shopkeepers: making money on terror
The arrest of a business man named Terrence has led investigators to the largest haul of terrorist information ever in the UK, and should encourage us re-evaluate our modern definition of terrorism.
10 Mar 2011
Tim Key chats about winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Alan Partridge and writing the perfect poem
Tim Key picks up the phone and says ‘I thought you were late. I rang my agent to find out where those jokers from Snipe were.’ He continues to explain that he’s using a friend’s phone, a friend who’s continuously late and so has set his clock fifteen minutes early. When I reply that it’s now precisely two thirty (the scheduled time of our phone interview) he adds comically, ‘you guys at Snipe have built your business on punctuality.’
10 Mar 2011
Divorced From Reality by Facebook
As Facebook continues to burrow its tentacles into every aspect of our lives, it is increasingly being cited as a source of marital problems. Yes, marital problems. Between adults. On Facebook.
10 Mar 2011
England Healthier Than Least Healthy Country in History
Congratulations England! You’re less fat than the fattest fat kid at fat camp.
10 Mar 2011
London agenda for Thursday 10 March
1. Watch a mini-version of the Parisian exhibition on Larry Clark [Le Cool]
2. Expect the darkest, most curious acetate transparencies you will ever see, with a splash of the surreal in Cat Soup [Run Riot]
3. Watch the most gorgeous, glamorous and ground-breaking new releases at Music Loves Video [Flavorpill]
4. Spread some spare change around at the Affordable Art Fair [Time Out]
5. Eat at the 1901 Restaurant [Tired of London]
6. Hear the gloomy glory and the defeat of Dr Beeching with Iliketrains and Nedry at Barfly [London Gigs]
10 Mar 2011
ShortList Announces New Editor from NME, Poops on Women’s Day
Martin Robinson is leaving his post as Deputy Editor at NME and taking the reigns at the men’s magazine. Hopefully he’ll tweak the release schedule of their latest fashion venture.
09 Mar 2011
Live Much by D/Wolves
Regular readers of this feature may remember Joel ‘Kynan’ Williams – the San Diego-based, Prince obsessive we featured a couple of months back. His band D/Wolves are set to release their debut album this Friday (March 11). It’s available for free via their Bandcamp page. Check out two teasers, the Flaming Lips-esque Pretty Wolves and Live Much, below.
09 Mar 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
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