Eric Chenaux, Dead Rat Orchestra, Braindead CollecTive » 22 September
Café Oto | 18 – 22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL
A night of noise and improvisation at Cafe OTO, headlined by former Constellation recording artist and Toronto resident Eric Chenaux, who mixes guitar work with effect-laden strings and lots more. Dead Rat Orchestra, apparently from Madrid via Colchester, veer between heart-rending solo violin, mesmerising proto-folk and rhythmic noise. Braindead Collective features a rotating casts of London jazz-heads and improv stars headed up by Oxfordian instigator Sebastian Reynolds. They whip up unpredictable storms and eddies on brass, drums, woodwind and all kinds of pedals and sound sources, feeding on each others’ performances to climactic effect.
20 Sept 2010
The BT Tower tour
Snipe was invited to visit the top of the BT Tower Wednesday to witness the launch of Open House London 2010, the annual event in which hundreds of buildings, tunnels, and gardens normally closed to the public are opened for gawking. While the BT Tower was built with a rotating restaurant, after a bombing by the Provisional IRA in 1971 the public areas were closed except for special event hire.
17 Sept 2010
Teebs
A really nice slice of electronica for you today from Teebs, not unlike Boards of Canada if they’d been raised from their contemplation by an intravenously administered espresso. We found this one lurking on the FACT blog.
Teebs – Why Like This? by snipelondon
17 Sept 2010
London agenda for Friday and the Weekend
London agenda for Friday and the Weekend
1. East End digital culture at Rich Mix & Whitechapel Gallery at the Alpha-ville Festival [Le Cool]
2. Sit in the dark at the Hackney Film Festival [Run Riot]
3. Cycle up to Art Crank [Le Cool]
4. Go for glam pop with Huski at The Cobden Club [London Gigs]
17 Sept 2010
Gabby Young
Here’s a fun bit of showtune-y nonsense form the extremely colourful Gabby Young. The video may or may not be inspired by the Nightmare Before Christmas Oogie-Boogie Man sequence, but she seems to be getting plenty of grown-up press with her slightly sexy clowning nonetheless. Maybe in the wake of people like Dresden Dolls and Paloma Faith, there’s room for pop stars to be a touch more flamboyant than the usual anodyne press-trained borecore rubbish. One can but hope.
16 Sept 2010
The End Times: Ooh la fuck
The End Times: Ooh la fuck
1. A week in the life of Les Inrockuptibles Nelly Kaprielian [The Paris Review]
2. What really happened behind the scenes of the Great Rock N Roll Swindle [Sabotage Times]
16 Sept 2010
News of the World to remove itself from Internet
Good news from Planet Murdoch, the News of the World is planning on removing itself from the Internet. By erecting a paywall, the company has decided to cover its shame and ensure that no-one will ever have to read what the NotW entertainingly describes as ‘news’ and ‘columns.”
16 Sept 2010
Ballsy Debenhams changes English language because it can - makes 'anniversary' a verb
Like all quoted companies, Debenham’s releases trading updates to the London Stock Exchange on a regular basis. But the latest update didn’t just highlight improved market share and and better net debt position it showcased the movement of an English word from noun to a verb—before our very eyes.
Debenhams: Womenswear share was impacted in 2010 by lower own bought sales densities arising out of last year’s space moves. This will anniversary as we move into the first quarter of 2011. The creation is eased by the use of ‘impacted’ in the previous sentence, impact having moved from noun to verb in the 1990s.
We are proud to medal Debenhams as Oxford Street’s Best Word Accessor.
Taking liberties with language [The Independent]
The shock of seeing a new verb anniversarying [Language Log]
16 Sept 2010
Mice Parade
The amazing Mice Parade are back with this ace video. The new album, ‘What It Means To Be Left-Handed’, comes out via Fat Cat on September 27th, and they hit the UK for a handful of dates in mid-October.
16 Sept 2010
Future Islands
Future Islands warmed up for their European tour with a surprise slot at Upset The Rhythm‘s Old Blue Last show last night. They’re back to play at CAMP in a few weeks.
16 Sept 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
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