28 Sept 2010
Brainlove Tour in LDN Tonight
BRAINLOVE TOUR » 28 September
CAMP Basement | 70-74 City Road, EC1Y 2BJ
As Autumn sets in, Brainlove Records sends out four solo artists for eleven dates around the UK. Pagan Wanderer Lu and Napoleon IIIrd have new records out, the former writing from the head, the latter yelping from the heart, but then meeting somewhere in the middle in a meld of hyperactive electronic pop and programmed beats. Stairs To Korea and Mat Riviere, however, start in the same place (bedroom recordings of pop songs) and end up poles apart, the former crafting huge indie anthems and the latter sharing misanthropic howls with jagged instrumentation. Wrap up warm, this is a must-see.
28 Sept 2010
London agenda for Monday 27 September
London agenda for Monday 27 September
1. Listen to Five outstanding and entertaining individuals for fifteen minutes to tell the story of their greatest ideas, achievements and obsessions [Le Cool]
2. Steal into Art by Offenders [Le Cool]
3. Put modern America under the microscope [Spoonfed]
27 Sept 2010
Tonight: Whale Watching Tour Hits Barbican
WHALE WATCHING TOUR » 27 September
The Barbican | Silk Street EC2
The London date of this tour from the Icelandic Bedroom Community label was ashed off during the Eyjafjallajokull eruption last year, but thankfully this unmissable bill has been rescheduled. The tour features four singular talents. The brilliant Sam Amidon you can read more about in our September issue. Ben Frost makes textured drones and long instrumentals in a fusion of post-rock and electronica. Valgeir Sigurðsson is most famous for his work producing Bjórk, but his recent soundtrack piece Draumalandið is also well worth a look. Nico Muhly is perhaps the brightest in this constellation after his universally acclaimed mould breaking contemporary classical opus, Mothertongue. Apparently the four play during each other’s sets live just as they do in the studio: this is an essential show. John Rogers
Sam Amidon – Saro by snipelondon
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Grylukvaedi by snipelondon
27 Sept 2010
The Irrepressibles
The Irrepressibles played Bandstand Busking yesterday. Until their sessions goes live, see more shots via Anika In London.
27 Sept 2010
The End Times: French film cliches
The End Times: French film cliches
1. The other football. BritBowl XXIV – London Blitz retain National Championship with victory over Coventry [Camden New Journal]
2. Funny maps of European sterotypes [AlphaDesigner]
3. Help Dalston’s Arcola theatre move the stage to the next stage [Hackney Gazette]
4. French film cliches [Sabotage Times]
24 Sept 2010
Surfer Blood (Twin Shadow Remix)
Despite looking like a hipster band name mashup, the above combination proves very effective. Surfer Blood have their crashing guitars stripped away and replaced by a tense backing track and Cubase fuckery aplenty. If there’s ever a Twin Sister remix of Gold Blood, my poor head will now explode, though.
Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes (Twin Shadow Remix) by snipelondon
24 Sept 2010
24 Sept 2010
David Cohen of the Standard nails UCL president over poverty wages paid to cleaners
The Evening Standard has never really been considered the People’s friend but man, did David Cohen gets a great story on the front page.
University College London is the only Bloomsbury university that does not pay its cleaners the London living wage (£7.85) instead paying the minimum wage of £5.80.
So when Cohen confronted president Malcolm Grant, who at £404,000 is the second-highest paid university head in the nation, including Oxford and Cambridge, about this, Grant had this to say: “I am advised that paying contract cleaners the living wage would cost UCL £500,000 to £1 million a year. That’s a big slug. And what I haven’t got is a spare million pounds, okay?”
UCL posted £12 million in surplus last year on a budget of £713 million.
It’s a great read. UCL chief: Paying living wage would cost £1m a year … and I don’t have it [Evening Standard]
24 Sept 2010
Finally, a charity video for Chris Moyles to help him out through his crisis
You may have heard that the £600,000 per year Radio 1 DJ spent the first half hour of his show Wednesday whinging that he had not received his paycheque from the BBC since July – and asked his audience why he should even bother coming into work.
He’s right. And we’re glad to help raise money and awareness.
24 Sept 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
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