Hype alert: Arrested Development's banana stand is in London today
In a PR hype generating event we can all get along with, the banana stand from noughties US comedy/best TV show ever Arrested Development will be in Leicester Square this afternoon.
Here it is yesterday, posing.
Photo – @arresteddev
The banana stand isn’t really about selling Londoners frozen bananas the won’t make them sick and kill them. It promotes the new episodes of the show coming to Netflix on May 26.
These episodes are the source of excitement and fear for people who had a sustained, passionate love affair with the show during an impressionable stage in the mid-noughties.
A few years later, the question arises: should you ever try to reignite a relationship as passionate as that?
This show was (is?) so good, it’s return even works as a metaphor for human relationships.
I’m scared.
09 May 2013
Traams - Mexico
Sussex power-trio finally put pen to paper; release free download.
08 May 2013
Brainlove Festival 2013: New Tigers
This week, SNIPE is looking at the musicians playing the Brainlove Festival, Saturday 11 May at the Windmill Brixton.
Now: New Tigers
05 May 2013
Brainlove Festival 2013: Fairhorns
This week, SNIPE is looking at the musicians playing the Brainlove Festival, Saturday 11 May at the Windmill Brixton.
Now: Fairhorns
05 May 2013
Brainlove Festival 2013: Local Sports Team
This week, SNIPE is looking at the musicians playing the Brainlove Festival, Saturday 11 May at the Windmill Brixton.
Now: Local Sports Team
1. Hello! Please introduce yourself to our readers. Who are you, where are from, and what do you do?
We are Local Sports Team, we’re a hard working rock band and we’re heading for the top. We live in Cardiff and we recently fulfilled a cultural exchange with the people of Latvia.
2. You’re playing BRNLV FSTVL on May 11th – have you played before, or if you haven’t, have you any expectations?
Some of us have played before in other bands. One of us used to be Pagan Wanderer Lu. He’s still waiting for the band who dressed as bugs to make a comeback. It’s a privilege to be playing the slot once taken by Tracey is Hot and the Clap.
3. Could you give us a Soundcloud link of a recent single or track, and tell us about it plz – recording, writing, subject matter, whatever seems most important?
The song is ‘Lady Gojira’, taken from our EP ‘Latvia’. It’s a song about that time that a giant robotic pop star woman attacked Cardiff and destroyed half the city. We thought it would be a shame if people forgot that that happened.
4. The BRNLV label is ten this year. Do you own a Brainlove Record? Do you have a personal favourite?
We all own at least one Brainlove record. Some of us have released Brainlove records. The best Brainlove record is still ‘Follow Your Heart’ by Mat Riviere.
5. Do you have any tours or releases coming up? What’s next?
We’re just making our first steps into gigging outside Wales. This will be our first show in England (we played Latvia before we played England) and have a few more shows coming up in Bristol and Cardiff. Our debut EP came out last year, we’re planning to do another single before the end of this year.
05 May 2013
Brainlove Festival 2013: Bastardgeist
This week, SNIPE is looking at the musicians playing the Brainlove Festival, Saturday 11 May at the Windmill Brixton.
Now: Bastardgeist
05 May 2013
Brainlove Festival 2013: Tom Milson
This week, SNIPE is looking at the musicians playing the BRNLV Festival, Saturday 11 May at the Windmill Brixton.
Now: Tom Milson
05 May 2013
04 May 2013
The Windsor Castle returns to Clapton; The Star by Hackney Downs rises
It’s been a great year for reclaimed pubs in the Hackney Central/Hackney Downs metropolitan area. First movers was the real ale and cidar specialist, The Cock, on Mare Street and the faux country, yet comfy, charm of the Clapton Hart at the Lower Clapton Road roundabout.
Today sees the formerly unloved Windsor Castle reopen at 135 Lower Clapton Road, operated by the chaps behind Birthdays. An easy stagger West is the Star by Hackney Downs, run by the same folk who run the Star by Bethnal Green. Locals may remember it as the Three Sisters and, although purists may resent the name change, Snipe says it’s worth the change.
03 May 2013
02 May 2013
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
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