Snipe Likes: Black Atlass
The debut video from pouty-lipped Canadian crunchy beat-maker/falsetto tunesmith Alex Fleming, aka Black Atlass. The Black Atlass EP is out now.
04 Sep 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 4 September 2012
1. Listen to poet and rapper Kate Tempest tell an epic spoken tale of the every day Gods at BACS [Run Riot]
2. Have an audience with James Murphy about his film Shut Up and Play The Hits at Hackney Picture House [Flavorpill]
3. Hear Grandaddy at the Shepherds Bush Empire [Don’t Panic]
4. Wander John Soane’s house by candlelight [Ian Visits]
5. Wave goodbye to the Heygate Estate [Tired of London]
6. Catch Crocodiles for a free show at Rough Trade East [London In Stereo]
04 Sep 2012
Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
Blow the cobwebs off with this celebratory rock ‘n’ roll song by Japandroids, which brings to mind McLusky at their brilliant best. They play Heaven on October 26th.
03 Sep 2012
Weather, portents and milestones for the week ahead. The saddest weather forecast of the year
Weather
A final burst of sunshine will illumine the shortening days. This is the week when windowsill tomatoes, noruished and neglected alike, will redden ripe for eating. This is the week when suntanned limbs will receive their final coat of varnish. This week, for the last time, summer wears its crown.
It’s the saddest forecast of the whole year. Every golden ray brings not heat, but the certain promise of winter’s coming chill. God damn this forecast to hell.
- Monday – Sun.
- Tuesday – Sun.
- Wednesday – Sun.
- Thursday – Sun.
- Friday – Sun.
The full BBC weather forecast is here.
Portents
By the French Revolutionary Calendar, we now enter the second half of the month of Fructidor, or in Thomas Carlyle’s proposed English equivalent: Fruitidor. The month is indelibly associated with the repressive coup of 1797, of which Wikipedia offers the following assesment:
“A formal bankruptcy of the state…crowned the misgovernment of this disastrous time.”
Happy Fruitidor to you all.
Milestones
The Great Fire of London did its worst on the 4th of September 1666. This week, as welcome rays of sunshine warm your eager skin, consider raising a glass in sombre memory of the hot horror of that September time, many years ago.
03 Sep 2012
Twenty & Two Zeros by Torches
London gloom-poppers Torches – who seem to be morphing, not unwelcomely, into some sort of 21st century, post-Olympics version of fun but shameless 90s Smiths revivalists Gene – have released a free download in advance of their headline show at Communion, Notting Hill Arts Club, September 2. Stream and download Twenty & Two Zeros below.
31 Aug 2012
London agenda for Friday 31 August 2012
1. Watch the Opening Night of the UK’s first ever Bowie Film Festival at the ICA [Run Riot]
2. See Fatboy Slim Live From The Big Beach Bootique 2012 at the Hackney Picturehouse [Flavourpill]
3. Hear a chapter in a series of elegant music-theatre performances by John Moran at the BAC [Don’t Panic]
4. Discover the link between Jack the Ripper of 1888 and the Bethnal Green Disaster of 1943. Okay. [Ian Visits]
5. Find Thomas Becket’s birthplace [Tired of London]
6. Listen to Delicate Steve // Empty Pools // Negative Pegasus at The Shacklewell Arms [London in Stereo]
31 Aug 2012
The new city hall data site is a useful start
Exciting times for people who are interested in civic data. Which, surely, is everyone.
The GLA have unveiled a new dashboard which they promise will be an intuitive portal into the latest, regularly updated city data.
It’s in its early stages but the avowed aim is to combine London stats from the GLA, office of National Statistics, Government Departments, and so on, in one easily accessible place.
You can then click through to see nicely presented graphs like this one, showing recycling rates in London lagging behind the rest of England:
See, we’ve learnt something already.
The site will need scrutiny to make sure it delivers on the promise, and that the data provided is accurate and fair. But if you’re at all interested in how the city is actually functioning then this resource is an undoubted step forward. So yay.
GLA – Data Dashboard
30 Aug 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 29 August 2012
1. Listen to singer / songwriter Patrick Wolf at the Old Vic [Run Riot]
2. Watch a Very British Apocalypse double with No Blade of Grass (1970) and Threads (1984) at Filmbar70 [Don’t Panic]
3. Fight the war on insects at What’s eating the museum? [Ian Visits]
4. See the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion [Tired of London]
5. Hear Hella Better Dancer // Shura // Like Spinning // Jodie Goffe at The Gallery Cafe [London in Stereo]
29 Aug 2012
Analysis of London's sewage reveals that ecstasy use here is relatively HIGH
A city’s sewage reveals traces of its citizens drug intake, and the details could give anybody interested in evidence-based drug policy some useful facts to work with. The scientific paper says:
“Raw sewage samples from 19 large European cities were collected by the participants of the study during a single week in March 2011 and analyzed for the urinary biomarkers of cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy, methamphetamine and cannabis.”
What did we learn?
“High per capita ecstasy loads were measured in Dutch cities, as well as in Antwerp and London.”
As mashed as Antwerp!? Well well.
There’s more on this story at Science Daily. The paper is from The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), and the abstract is here.
29 Aug 2012
Again by How To Dress Well
Check out this sweet cover of a Janet Jackson tearjerker, from skinny R&B sensation Tom Krell, aka How to Dress Well. Krell plays XOYO November 5. New album Total Loss is released September 17 through Weird World.
28 Aug 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- 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
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
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