Foundry squatters brace for eviction by police today
Foundry fans who have occupied the Great Eastern Street bar/gallery since its May closure may be forcibly evicted by police today. The bar is to be demolished for a new art hotel.
The Squatters’ Website is here.
Updates on the wire, of course.
28 Jun 2010
Snipe Issue #2 MPfree Mixtape
With issue three pretty much in the bag, here’s a compilation of all the Daily MPfrees we ran in the last month. All the tracks are available for download, so you can grab the lot if you like. It starts off with some of the best new dance and electronica and ends on gothic pop, via some wide meandering through lo-fi, ambient and folk territory.
26 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Of Montreal
Our MPfrees normally run Mon-Fri, but when something as momentous as a new Of Montreal track surfaces, hell. It’s time to bust up the crazy system. So here it is: “Coquet Coquete” is the first thing to be heard from the new album “False Priest”, which has been rumoured to be everything from a single epic psychedelic track to a 70’s-style R&B record. This doesn’t sound particularly like either; but if there’s one thing you can rely on Kevin Barnes for, it’s a good hard swerve in direction.
“False Priest” is released September 14th – pre-order now from Polyvinyl.
26 Jun 2010
Snipe Machine
Hello all…
snipe.at/music is now a cog in the Hype Machine. You can follow us on there if you’re so inclined. This means tracks we blog about are eligible for the Hype Machine blog charts, people with Hype Machine accounts can have our selections sent into their watchlist, and the songs can be streamed, “loved”, tweeted, recommended to others etc.
Great stuff!
25 Jun 2010
Snipe Likes: Darwin Deez
I’d been kind of ignoring this band. They tripped off some kind of hipster bullshit early-warning system before I’d ever heard ‘em, maybe because of the comedy hair and Vice-like grip on the blogsphere. But you shouldn’t judge an NYC hipster douche from his perm, as they say, and it turns out Darwin Deez makes beautifully formed indie-rock-solid tunes like the one above. The album is almost bizarrely listenable: I can’t keep my ears off it. Enjoy.
25 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Zola Jesus
“I Can’t Stand” is a beautifully dark slice of gothic pop from Zola Jesus, aka Phoenix-based singer & songwriter Nika Roza Danilova. Reverb aplenty gives this song the sound of a great lost 1980’s number one single. After playing with Fever Ray, she’s just been announced as The XX’s USA tour support… but hopefully she’ll be back for some UK headline dates soon.
25 Jun 2010
You never know when the uncontrollable begins (It's tonight and this weekend)
This weekend The Factory have managed to convince the Victoria and Albert Museum to let them stage a free production in the new theatre built on the grounds by Carlos Teixeira. Presumably this is Carlos Teixeira the Brazillian architect who has recently been teaching at the Parsons School of Design Studies in New York. And NOT Carlos Teixeira, the world-famous Portugese volley ball player and Best Digger. That would be a cool show, too, though. Open air theatre, sandy beach for seating, net for a stage, and the cast in speedos and bikinis reciting their lines while lobbing and spiking balls slick with sweat and coconut-flavoured sunscreen at each other and the audience. Actually, the Factory are used to doing the unexpected. It’s not impossible this is the show. Six short plays from six playwrights, and it’s free. Gather at the Porter Gallery at the V&A, Friday 7 and 8pm, Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 3pm.
25 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Icelandic producer and composer Valgeir Sigurðsson is the man behind the ever-impressive Bedroom Community label. As a producer he came close to an Oscar for his work on Björk and Thom Yorke’s duet “I’ve Seen It All” (remember that clanking train rhythm?) as well as producing and arranging for a truly impressive array of artists such as Cocorosie and Nico Muhly. His newest album, “Draumalandið”, is his strongest solo effort so far; this is the opening track, and an album highlight.
24 Jun 2010
Metro has been profitable for the past seven years - and they have the contract for another seven
Metro, the free daily on the Tube, has been a profitable venture for the Daily Mail & General Trust, its parent company, turning a profit for the past seven years.
And, according to the FT, at 114,647 single column centimetres of display ads, much more advertising than the competition (94,875ccms at The Sun, 77,616ccms at the Daily Mail, and 106,170ccms at The Daily Telegraph).
With the demise of thelondonpaper and London Lite, no other paper made a bid to be the exclusive paper on the tube, leaving it it all to the Metro for the next seven years.
23 Jun 2010
New theatre under Waterloo East arches
The Waterloo East Theatre, which is due to open in September, will feature a 150-seat auditorium with an adjoining bar and box office.
The brainchild of theatre producer Gerald Armin with business partners Aidan Dooley and Pat Moylan, the venue will be a non-for-profit receiving house that will also stage its own community and educational theatre projects.
23 Jun 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
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