Cycle Hire was delayed until next month because councils refused planning permission
Says Adam Bienkov
The scheme was meant to begin in May but has been pushed back after 75 of the 498 applications were blocked by individual councils.
It will now open next month but the Mayor admits that some stations will still not be completed before the launch.
Cycle Hire begins, allegedly, sources say, 30 July.
17 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Trash Kit
‘Cadets’ is a perfect piece of messy, scribbly art-pop fun from all girl trio Trash Kit, who’s debut album was released recently on the unimpeachably brilliant Upset The Rhythm.
17 Jun 2010
Preview: Hudson Mohawke
Incongruity is oh-so pleasing in music. That ‘what the…?!’ feeling when expectations and reality hit the fan just can’t be beat. Someone who’s made his name doing just that is Hudson Mohawke. This is the kid who became the youngest ever UK DMC finalist at 15; the tall, shy Glaswegian who’s breathed fresh life into R&B with his remixes of Tweet and Jodeci; and the Warp Records’ signing who’s funk-riddled, glitchy sound has spawned a dozen new genre nicknames. Having released his phenomenal debut album ‘Butter’ last year, tonight he’ll be helping Hyperdub hero Kode 9 celebrate his DJ Kicks launch along with Lucky Me comrade Rustie and rising star Paul White. Should be a scorcher.
Ralph Rip Rising by AssociatedMinds
Details:
Kode 9’s K7 DJ Kicks Launch Party
Friday, 25 June 2010, 10pm-5am
Kode 9
Hudson Mohawke
Rustie
Paul White
Deadly Rhythm Soundsystem
Lil Silva
The Heatwave
Hard House Banton
Lego (Bricks)
Deadly Rhythm
Plan B, 418 Brixton Road, London
Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=391845&interface=planb
£8 Advanced Tickets / £10 On The Door
http://www.deadlyrhythm.co.uk
http://www.planb-london.co.uk
17 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Chrome Hoof
Daily MPfree: Chrome Hoof – Crystalline by snipelondon
A truly bizarre band, Chrome Hoof are a retro-futurist sci-fi blaxploitation jazz/krautrock/noise arkestra. I’d add “unlike any other” but, well, there just aren’t any others. See if they inspire the kind of devotion in you that they do from their cult of adoring fans.
16 Jun 2010
Ken Livingstone files his papers, officially runs for Mayor, revenge
This is not exactly the world’s best kept secret, but Ken Livingstone has filed his papers today and is officially running for mayor, again.
Having won the job twice since the position was created in 2000, Livingstone was one of the rare people who believed Boris Johnson was not yet more cannon fodder from the Conservatives and could possibly win the election. Which, of course, he did.
But now Livingston has rested, stopped the expansion of his kid/mother ratio, and put the newts on a rigid Canadian Air Force exercise regime. Battle lines have been drawn.
The next election is 2012.
15 Jun 2010
Tonight: Stairs To Korea, Pagan Wanderer Lu, A Scholar & A Physician
Snipe’s music editor John Rogers will be DJing tonight at a free release party at The Old Blue Last in Hoxton. Playing live are oddball producer duo A Scholar & A Physician, London’s own Anglo-Icelandic pop maestro Stairs To Korea, and finally twisted indie-pop veteran Pagan Wanderer Lu, who’ll play his new album in it’s entirety with a specially assembled band.
Declare your attendance here.
The gig will start directly after the Brazil-North Korea World Cup football game, which is playing downstairs, making the set times as follows:
23.00 Pagan Wanderer Lu
22.15 Stairs To Korea
21.30 A Scholar & A Physician
15 Jun 2010
Mark Field, MP, says things are so bad, the poor are forced to buy second homes outside of London
Mark Field, the MP for the down-at-heel Cities of Westminster and London demonstrates his understanding of how difficult the economic climate has been on regular people.
Many people who buy a second home outside the capital as an addition to a small London base do so not because they are enormously wealthy but precisely because they are not. It is virtually impossible even for many of those earning multiples of the average national wage to trade up the property ladder in the capital. For those with growing families, the only option is often to buy a house with garden outside London.
15 Jun 2010
Daily MPfree: Thomas Truax
Delightfully weird pop music from veteran oddball Thomas Truax. Like Tom Waits presenting kids TV.
15 Jun 2010
Danny Dyer's £205 box office inspires haters to raise four times more for womens' charity
Danny Dyer, who oh-so-cleverly suggested a reader cut his ex-girlfriend’s face, had a cringeworthy 24 people pay money to see his film, Pimp.
The cheeky chappies at Concrete Solutions saw an opportunity for some fun at Dyers expense. If Dyer can get people to pay £205 to see his film, how much can they people to donate to Solace Women’s Aid.
The answer, at this writing, is £837.00.
15 Jun 2010
This week in picking retail staff by submitting photographs to head office for approval
This week was a good week for discussion of retail outlets taking photos of staff to be judged by headquarters.
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Maureen Tkacik wrote about Abercombie & Fitch’s ‘weekly practice of purging its stores of hourly sales associates it deemed to be less than, in corporate parlance, “brand positive.”’:
The purgees were identified, a former regional manager explained, every week at corporate headquarters in New Albany, Ohio, during a conference call held specifically to critique photographs taken that week by the chain’s hundred or so district managers of all the “brand representatives” they had encountered in visits to their stores. The photos were uploaded onto some sort of company intranet, but my source told me his boss preferred printing them out on paper, so he could circle flaws, draw mustaches, scrawl racist epithets, etc. The source said braces, minor breakouts, the faintest possibility of weight gain, showing up to work in a prior season’s ensemble, wearing shoes that had not appeared on the list of authorized footwear for that season, and/or belonging to an ethnic minority could all be grounds for immediate dismissal from the ranks of Abercrombie & Fitch’s minimum-wage cadre of demand creators.
Over at Gawker, they claim that American Apparel has a Full body, head-to-toe, hiring policy.
[A] new policy now says that in order for current AA employees to be approved for a promotion or raise, they must also have their photos approved. As they put it, “Your looks determine your position and pay rate, not how effective you are at your job.”
Our source says that these employee photos have become standard operating procedure, though the more objectionable aspects go unspoken; for example, district employees who don’t like someone’s photo may refer to them as “off brand,” rather than overweight or unattractive, though the effect is the same.
Gawker’s full coverage can be found here.
15 Jun 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
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
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