Smell like a Sun reporter with Buzz, the paper's new perfume
Lord knows what the Sun’s braintrust was huffing, but the tabloid has released their own scent, ‘Buzz.’ At only £59 per 50ml, you too can smell like a Sun reporter, which we imagine is some combination of fake tan and desperation.
07 Sept 2010
Daily MPfree: The One
The One are a London four-piece playing 80’s-influenced electronic soul-pop. Masterminded by sometime Fair-Ohs and Heartbreak drummer Joe Ryan, The One is a sultry and winningly musical-heart-on-sleeve concoction. The debut single, “Double Life”, is out on September 13th – grab it here. And the song can be downloaded here.
06 Sept 2010
06 Sept 2010
Last chance to save Greenwich market
That beautiful market in Greenwich, that twee one in the town centre that has been there for 300ish years? It’s ugly and it has to go.
At least, that’s the view of market owners Greenwich Hospital, which intends to level the place and “replace it with a new contemporary market, a new shopping centre and 104 room hotel.
A fortnight ago, Greenwich Council’s turned down the Hospital’s application but they have now appealed.
But it’s not too late. The appeal is being held at Woolwich Town Hall and open to the public. The inquiry hearings run from 7 to 10 September and from 14 to 17 September, beginning at 10am on each day. Contact the independent planning inspector Paul Bennett by email on [email protected] or call 011 7372 6372 if you want to speak.
06 Sept 2010
Tony Blair cancels Waterstones book signing
After a taste in Dublin as to the welcome he would be receiving, Tony Blair has officially cancelled his book signing, originally scheduled for Wednesday.
I have decided not to go ahead with the signing as I don’t want the public to be inconvenienced by the inevitable hassle caused by protestors… I’m really sorry for those – as ever the majority – who would have come to have their books signed by me in person. I hope they understand.
The poor guy is as delusional as ever, but it is always pleasing to see Blair get a glimpse of his real legacy before retreating back into other people’s corporate jets.
06 Sept 2010
Blair verifies Cheney's domino effect for the Middle East
Remember the nutcases who believed that the war on Iraq was merely a pretext for a wholesale regime change in the region? Tony Blair, in his new book, says former US vice-president Dick Cheney wanted nothing less. [Cheney] thought the world had to be made anew and … it had to be done by force and with urgency. … He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc Oops.
06 Sept 2010
Rough Trade ponders expanding into the world beyond London
There is a world beyond London? Snipe has its doubts.
However, the venerable record store with its Portobello Road and Brick Lane locations has set up a twit poll asking where it should expand to next, offering Glasgow, Edinburgh, Oxford, Birmingham, Dublin, Cambridge, Norwich, Brighton, Bath, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, and Liverpool as potential new locations.
If you want to encourage them, vote here.
06 Sept 2010
06 Sept 2010
Surfer Blood
Surfer Blood are five young men from Miami Beach, Florida. Despite a healthy distaste for drum ‘n’ bass, they met at an Ultra Festival after-party in Miami and decided to get together and polish up a couple of songs. Less than two years later, we’re presented with their debut album Astro Coast – a strikingly well made record melding together elements of powerful psych, robust surf and shimmering shoegaze into a delectable echoey brew. The album obviously caught the public imagination over in the USA, making an appearance in the lower reaches of the Billboard chart. Since then, Surfer Blood has been sweeping across the UK, picking up a slot at Koko, selling out the Lexington, and launching into a support tour with Interpol this October for their first taste of the big stage. Live, they’re an endearing gang of young friends, goofing about and laughing when one of the others pulls a tentative rock star shape. But with such a mature sensibility and a knack for catchy melodies, we’ll be seeing a lot more from Surfer Blood.
05 Sept 2010
Sam Amidon
Moving to New York City to rebel against the folk music he and his family had played together since he was a toddler didn’t really work out for Sam Amidon. While he’d intended to get into indie rock and free jazz, he found that the hipster kids were all playing the same American folk songs he’d been trying to leave behind. And what a rich vein of music to mine: murder ballads, tragic tales and love songs played and learned and passed on based solely on merit, with the best and most memorable surviving to the present day. Amidon puts his own spin on them of course, interspersing the tracks with surreal improvised stories and sometimes destroying delicate tracks with noisy jams, guitar solos and strange physical tics and dances, not unlike UK folk experimentalist David Thomas Broughton. His latest album and career high I See A Sign collects nine such standards and one beautiful reworking of a trite R. Kelly track, showing Amidon can turn his hand to other types of music too. It was apparently recorded in just two hours at the Greenhouse Studio in Iceland, with arrangements by the white-hot talents of Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson providing a mouth-watering cherry on the cake.
05 Sept 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Diary of the shy Londoner
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- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
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