Wild Party / Napoleon IIIrd
Today’s MPfree is by Wild Party. They are from Texas. You have to wonder if they’ve ever played a shit gig to twelve friends in some dive bar while people stand still, blatantly not having a wild party, and if some joker asked for his money back, and if there was then a drunken scuffle with the frontman and the whole thing ended up with people shouting in the street and attempting to have a conversation with a huge simian doorman and getting nowhere, with the leftover attendees trickling out of the door, heads shaking.
There must have been a Wild Party wild party at some point though, sounding, as they do, like a vocodered Strokes. Below is the b-side on the single. The a-side is better. But obvs they want people to buy that, so, you know. Hard lines, pal.
The band describe their forthcoming album thus: “So, like this giant evergreen right? Like it falls perfectly across a rapid river… deep in the tropical forest of Mozambique, and even though there’s like no one there to hear the sound, an inexplicable energy is released that animals react to instinctively and begin making their voyage on this celestial, unspoken of path to the mainland and righteous parties.”
Wild Party – Life’s Too Short by snipelondon
Also: when not doing music stuff for Snipe, I’ve been over at Brainlove Records working hard getting Napoleon IIIrd’s second album ready for release. The first track, “The Unknown Unknown”, is a freebie – grab it below or, if you’re feeling viral, use the song-spreading wonder that is Tweet For a Track.
16 Sept 2010
The latest update on XOYO. Not much.
Punters who went to the launch of new Shoreditch art/music venue XOYO last night found a cacophony of sound and action. Unfortunately, it was the sound of workers putting the finishing touches on the build – the launch was cancelled.
While no one with the club would explain why notice could not be given, Dan Miller of XOYO’s PR firm Anorak says that it was ‘unforeseen technical issues.’
Miller says that the club plans to open on Saturday, with Bugged Out! featuring Friendly Fires DJ set, L-Vis 1990, Untold, Matt Walsh, Eskimo Twins. Miller did not have information if pre-purchased tickets will be honoured or refunded.
Tonight’s scheduled Dan Deacon show has been moved to Fabric.
Tomorrow’s Rockfeedback 10th Anniversary show is unclear. A call to the office said that Rockfeedback was intending to celebrate at XOYO but they did have a back-up venue. UPDATE Dan Monsell at Rockfeedback says that 10th Anniversary is definitely moving to a nearby club, TBA at 11:30 am. UPDATE 2 Rockfeedback is moving to Electrowerkz
According to Music Week ‘XOYO is a 900-capacity venue that will focus on live music and club nights. It brings together four London music entrepreneurs – Boy’s Own co-founder Cymon Eckel, festival organiser Marcus Weedon, Eat Your Own Ears promoter Tom Baker and Bugged Out founder John Burgess – and has been partly funded through an £800,000 investment by Ingenious Entertainment.’
16 Sept 2010
London agenda for Thursday
London agenda for Wednesday
1. Watch the Kite Runner at the Scoop’s free film series [Le Cool]
2. Have a conversation with artist Elina Brotherus and curator Sacha Craddock [Run Riot]
3. Get one’s twang on with The Bridport Dagger, Abdoujaparov, and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel at the Windmill
16 Sept 2010
Craft Spells
Via our friends at Ireland’s Ragged Words come this complete find: California’s Craft Spells. “Party Talk” is a minimal, woozy little pop song that sounds like you’re listening to it through heat haze. They’ve no LDN dates as yet, but there’s a UK agent listed on their MySpace, so they’ll be here soon enough.
15 Sept 2010
Idiot Glee
Today’s MPfree is from Lexington, KY’s Idiot Glee, a 22-year-old pop prodigy releasing his single soon on the hipster launchpad label Moshi Moshi. See him live at the Old Blue Last tomorrow, ably supported by Future Islands (a last minute addition, warming up for their European tour), noisy Glaswegians Moon Unit and LDN’s own Slushy Guts.
Idiot Glee – Ain’t No Sunshine by snipelondon
14 Sept 2010
The End Times: Enders Game
The End Times: Enders Game
1. Making a human of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg [New Yorker]
2. Long, crunchy Jon Stewart profile [New York]
3. Sympathy for the devil [The Atlantic]
14 Sept 2010
Hey Dickhead video guys, maybe they're not hipsters - maybe they are lesbians
Writer Petit Four in East London lesbian site The Most Cake takes issue with the Dickhead video
“A little voice in my head says hey we’re gay, this is our culture. For next few decades at least, the average gay is just not going to have a straightforward semi-detached 2.4 children lifestyle. There’s a reason why so many of us are in London, not in small rural villages tilling the soil and wearing fleeces or whatever it is we’re supposed to be doing, and there’s a reason why lots of us hang out in the areas in London where it’s alright to kiss your girfriend and wear gay clothes. And if you can also get a macchiato and wifi access, well all the frigging better. There’s a reason counter-culture and the gay scene are often closely associated. And it’s not just because we’re all twats.”
“Being a Dickhead is Cool”: the video, and the fallout [The Most Cake]
14 Sept 2010
Snipe's London Agenda for Tuesday
Snipe’s London Agenda for Tuesday
1. Get September chills with Trouble Books at Betsy Trotwood and Olof Arnalds at Bush Hall
2. Talk London histories in Whitechapel with broadcaster Robert Elms, columnist Liz Hoggard and writer Iain Sinclair [Le Cool]
3. Mock pseudo-corporate management jargon at Withstore [Spoonfed]
14 Sept 2010
Labour film quango head quits to go Hollywood
UK Film Council head John Woodward is leaving the organisation in November before its closure by the Coalition. What’s next? “In the past he’s talked about moving to Hollywood or getting into a movie rights aggregation business like LoveFilm.” So, nothing, then.
UK Film Council Boss Quitting Under Fire [Deadline|London]
13 Sept 2010
Wilco and Philip Selway » 14 September
Royal Festival Hall | South Bank SE1
Having only just released the delicate and beautifully nuanced solo effort that is Familial, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway will be taking to the spectacular Royal Festival Hall stage this September in support of veteran Chicago folksters and sometime collaborators, Wilco. With a career spanning over 15 years, multi-instrumentalist Jeff Tweedy and co’s back catalogue is as stylistically diverse as it is inspiring. In fact between them, Wilco and Selway possess an oeuvre that straddles and challenges every discernible genre typecast from “alt-country” to “experimental rock”, so tonight promises to be nothing less than a stunning operetta.
13 Sept 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
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- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
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