Daily MPfree: Twin Sister
A preview of this Hotly Tipped Brooklyn Lo-Fi Quintet, remixed here into an amniotic, dreamy slab of electronica by Teen Daze.
26 May 2010
Daily MPfree: This Many Boyfriends
To-cool-for-art-school indie-pop upstarts This Many Boyfriends have released a taster from their forthcoming EP “Getting A Life With This Many Boyfriends”. It’s a song with a massive possible double-meaning in the chorus that singer Richard says was unintended, so we’re left not knowing whether the song’s protagonist likes it’s subject or not. You’ll have to guess.
Order the EP, with badges and a fanzine, from Thee SPC here.
25 May 2010
Daily MPfree: Exclusive track from Drum Eyes forthcoming album Gira Gira
We have an exclusive download from the forthcoming Drum Eyes album Gira Gira for you. The accompanying spiel says it pretty well: “It’s a real triumph of an album and finally sees DJ Scotch Egg make an album deserved of attention not only from his loyal fanbase but far and wide across the metal, ambient and electronic worlds of modern music, it’s an album that obliterates genres with pride and grace, whilst remaining true in it’s identity and ability to lodge in your mind.”
See Drum Eyes headlining Brainlove Festival 2010 this weekend.
25 May 2010
23 May 2010
Radio 6 Music demonstration today at noon, Broadcasting House
Fans of doomed Radio 6 are gathering for a huge protest at Broadcasting House [Map] today at noon.
The demonstration of support for the staff of the BBC, musicians, and all those connected with BBC 6 Music, will mark the end of the BBC Trust’s consultation process. Since the BBC Executive proposed cuts to a number of its services as part of a Strategic Review earlier this year,the protest committee believes that more than ten thousand people have responded to The BBC Trust Consultation.
Cake is promised.
22 May 2010
Unofficial Guide to Stag & Dagger
(1) 93 FEET EAST
150 Brick Lane E1 6RU
These New Puritans
A Grave With No Name
Trailer Trash Tracys
Night Control
Pariah
Jah Pat
C Powers
No Pain in Pop DJs
(2) The Book Club
100 Leonard Street EC2A 4RH
Rob Broderick and James Hancox (improvised hip hop)
R-ART (life drawing class)
Paper Tiger (poetry)
Robin and Partridge (shadow puppetry, comedy)
Henry Bennett (opera)
Georgina Whitewithtwosugars (painted faces and atmosphere)
(3) CAFÉ 1001
91 Brick Lane E1 6QL
With Branchage Film Festival
Pulled Apart By Horses
Banjo Or Freakout
Tweak Bird
Friendship
Waxc Fang
Sexbeat DJs
(4) CAMP
70-74 City Road EC1Y 2BJ
Upstairs
Class Actress
Dave ID
Javelin
John & Jehn
Feeding Time
Basement
A Place To Bury Strangers
Sian Alice Group
Active Child
Comanechi
Lone Lady
Snap Crackle & Pop DJs
Skull Juice
(5) CARGO
83 Rivington Street EC2A 3AY
Starkey plus MCs
Benji B
Alexander Nut
Fatima
DELS
Deadly Rhythm Soundsystem
(6) CATCH
22 Kingsland Road E2 8DA
exlovers
Alan Pownall
Planet Earth
Othello Woolf
Sunderbans
Young & Lost Club (DJs)
Nothing Bad Magazine (DJs)
(7) EAST VILLAGE
?? 89 Great Eastern Street EC2A 3HX??
Sinden
Cooly G
Oneman
Brackles
Bok Bok
Reecha
Hyponik DJ Squad
(8) HEARN STREET
7-11 Hearn St EC2 3LS
Simian Mobile Disco (DJ set)
Dopplereffekt
Casper C
Allez Allez
(9) HOBBY HORSE
281 Kingsland Road E2 8AS
FM Belfast
My Tiger My Timing
La Shark
Fiction
Swanton Bombs
DJs: Dirty Bingo DJs, Dance Magic Dance DJs, Ollie Russian
(10) HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN
2- 4 Hoxton Square N1 6NU
Room One
Adventures In The Beetroot Field VS SWN FESTIVAL
We Have Band
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
Primary 1
Huw Stephens
Gramme
Wild Palms
Magnets
Room Two
Doc Daneeka
The Heatwave
Lady Chann
Envy
Dominique Young Unique
Lixo
Mr Moneybags
Room Three
Little Boots (DJ set)
Lovers and Gamblers
(11) DREAM BAGS JAGUAR SHOES
32-36 Kingsland Road E2 8DA
In Association with Little White Lies
Still Flyin’
Spectrals
Teeth
Jaguar Love
DJs:
The Iron Wagon DJs
The Church of London DJs
Psyche Milligan
(12) THE LEGION
348 Old Street EC1V 9NQ3
The Radio Dept.
North Atlantic Oscillation
Yeti Lane
Team Ghost
Ulrich Schnauss (DJ set)
Sonic Cathedral DJs
(13) MACBETH
70 Hoxton Street N1 6LP
Archie Bronson Outfit
Gyratory System
White Hinterland
Teeth of The Sea
(14) OLD BLUE LAST
38 Great Eastern St EC2A 3ES
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Sky Larkin
Cold Pumas
Dam Mantle
(15) QUEEN OF HOXTON
1-5 Curtain Road EC2A 3JX
Filthy Dukes (DJ set)
Django Django
teenagersintokyo
Is Tropical
Clock Opera
ZNTN
(16) RICH MIX
35-47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA
The Paper Cinema’s Lost World
Kieron Maguire & the Cabinet Scorers
Featuring:
Francesca Ter-Berg
Robert Parkinson
Olivia Preye
Kid Amy
(17) ROUGH TRADE
Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL
Megaphonic Thrift
Timber Timbre
(18) SCRUTTON WAREHOUSE
73-75 Scrutton Street EC2A 4PJ
The Bug
Bug MCs (Flow Dan and Daddy Freddy)
Mount Kimbie
Deadboy
FACT DJs Club.
(19) SPREAD EAGLE
2 Kingsland Road E2 8DA
Lone Wolf
Conil
Sweet Baboo
Cate Le Bon
Lupen Crook
(20) STAG’S HEAD
55 Orsman Road, Islington London N1 5RA
O Children
Little Death
Baby Monster
Islington Boys’ Club
Red Drapes
DJS
thisaintnodisco DJs
The Brothers Grime
Blue Flowers
Club.The.Mammoth DJs
Chess Club DJs
(21) VIBE BAR
The Truman Brewery. 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Bo Ningen
Charles Hayward
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
Temperatures
Rock-A-Rolla DJs
21 May 2010
Diane Abbott announces bid for Labour leader
Abbott announced it live on Radio 4, giving a rare stunned silence to James Naughtie.
20 May 2010
Dan Savage, our agony uncle, has a musical opening in NY based on his book
Dan Savage, agony uncle in the Savage Love column at the back of Snipe, wrote a book several years ago detailing the trials he and husband Terry Miller went through to adopt their son, DJ.
Savage sold musical rights to The Kid without telling Miller, assuming the concept would never get off the ground. They’d already run the gauntlet of three projects based on The Kid—two films and a TV series. Negotiations over an HBO show, meant to air in the prime years of Sex and the City (“They needed two series about sex columnists,” Savage deadpans), were a “horrifying” experience. The TV writers once proposed that, during a scene in which Savage and Miller take DJ’s birth mom out for steak, the Terry character should sneak off for a bathroom quickie with the waiter. Savage countered, “If you wanted to do something really true to gay life, have it come out that I know and I don’t give a shit, because we’re not psycho like straight people are about that shit.”
NY Magazine has the story here.
19 May 2010
Inappropriate children's books based on films
18 May 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Diary of the shy Londoner
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- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
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