London agenda for 16 July 2012
1. Photographer Giles Price exhibits his large-format aerial shots of the Olympic site at E20 12: Under Construction [Le Cool]
2. Launch the BFI’s Christopher Nolan season with The Prestige [Run Riot]
3. Relax to the subtle sounds of Suis La Lune, Veils, We Came Out Like Tigers at the Old Blue Last [Don’t Panic]
4. Bob Wilcock, vice president of the Society of Olympic Collectors, tells the definitive story of the 1908 London Olympic Marathon: the Greatest Race of the Twentieth Century [Ian Visits]
5. Browse Bishopsgate Library [Tired of London]
16 Jul 2012
Sebastian Gainsborough aka Vessel
The intro to this, a thrilling taster from Sebastian Gainsborough, aka Vessel’s, debut long-player Order of Noise, sounds a little like an overweight middle-aged man playing ping-pong in a faceless roadside hotel. Order of Noise is out September 24 via Tri Angle Records.
13 Jul 2012
Thousands of free cable car tickets given away by TfL
Transport for London has sent out 2500 free tickets for the new Thames cable car to local residents in Greenwich and Newham boroughs.
The initiative follows anecdotal reports that relatively few people are using the new service during weekdays, despite very busy periods during the opening weekends.
Two batches of tickets were sent out to local people to be used between 9th and 15th July and the 16th and 22nd July.
TfL claim that the tickets are intended to thank local people for their “patience.”
Head of Emirates Air Line, Danny Price told The Scoop:
“A limited number of local residents in both Newham and Greenwich have been sent two free return tickets to fly on the Emirates Air Line. Throughout construction we had been communicating with these residents and wanted to offer them the opportunity to experience the Emirates Air Line for themselves and thank them for their patience during the building phase. We are pleased with the response so far to London’s newest mode of transport which in the first two weeks since opening has already seen more than 130,000 passengers take a flight across the Thames.”
This last figure suggests that the cable car, which cost £60 million to build, is currently carrying roughly the same number of passengers as an average London bus route.
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Details of cable car ticket prices can be found at the TfL website.
13 Jul 2012
London agenda for Friday 13 July 2012
1. Make like it is NYC 1979 with Alex Metric at the Nest [Le Cool]
2. Share an intimate evening with Bishi at the Print Room [Run Riot]
3. Listen to Blue Daisy, John Cranmer, Yes Jess!, TimeOut All Stars at Hint [Don’t Panic]
4. Discuss whether ruination is overtaking regeneration with the creator of polemical fanzine Savage Messiah, Laura Oldfield-Ford, and Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class at Journeys through Urban Britain [Ian Visits]
5. Eat at Robin Hood Zorro [Tired of London]
13 Jul 2012
Tom Milsom - Home
Blue-haired indie sprite Tom Milsom is quite the internet renaissance man. A trained pianist who’s gathered an enthusiastic online following (numbering over 95k on his YouTube channel alone), he has a dedicated and homegrown audience that’s watched him grow-up-in-public as a songwriter and musician over the last few years. Milsom’s latest output is arguably his strongest. “Home”, from the forthcoming “Alien Home” mixtape, streams below; a piano-led introspective pop song that perhaps sits somewhere between The Postal Service and Patrick Wolf.
Also, see what Milsom can do sat in front of a church organ below, playing “Indigo” on his recent US tour.
12 Jul 2012
Days of Glory - the sex Olympics held immediately after an athlete's final event
— An anonymous female athlete, quoted in the New York Post, referring to the “post-competition attempts to fill each remaining day at the Village with as much alcohol-drenched sex as possible.”
You stay up all night and party, and you wait for McDonald’s to start serving breakfast at 4:30 in the morning,” she says. “You eat, sleep, then get up at 9 or 10 a.m. for press, and then you start partying all over again. Two years ago, it was Day 6 or 7 [of partying] for me, and I was like, ‘I quit.’ And they were like, ‘You call yourself an Olympian?’ ”
12 Jul 2012
London agenda for Thursday 12 July 2012
1. Get down with Saturday Night Fever in the Old Vic Tunnels [Le Cool]
2. Struggle for power, territory and sexual domination through interpretive dance [Run Riot]
3. Help launch the new label by Italoboyz’ Marco Donato and Federico Marto, Superfiction [Don’t Panic]
4. Explore the meaning of games like Risk, Battleships, and the Nazi’s Jews Out! in the context of global conflict at Playing at War [Ian Visits]
5. Find the site of Alexander Fleming’s discovery [Tired of London]
12 Jul 2012
London police stations to be sold off admits Boris
Over a dozen police stations and buildings are to be sold off across London Boris Johnson admitted this week.
The list released to the Assembly is thought to be the first step in a series of closures required to fill a £233 million hole in his police budget.
The Mayor has also revealed plans to privatise large parts of the Metropolitan police service.
Under his plans, the following stations and buildings have “in principal” approval to be sold off:
- Barking Police Station
- Willesden Green Police Station
- Orpington Police Station
- South Norwood
- Ealing Police Station
- Southgate Police Station
- Wealdstone Police Station
- East Ham Police Station / Section House
- Highbury Vale
- Richmond Police Station
- Rotherhithe Police Station
- Lavender Hill
The following buildings already have full approval for sale:
- Finchley Traffic Garage
- Sidcup Police Station
- Kingsbury
- East Dulwich (old police station)
A number of these stations and buildings are already closed to the public.
Under the mayor’s longer term plans just one police station front desk will be left open in each London borough.
Boris had previously insisted that no police station front desks would be closed without there being a “suitable alternative” nearby.
Last week Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne told the Assembly that Londoners would only ever be “ten minutes by car” from an open police station.
12 Jul 2012
Apocalypse Dreams by Tame Impala
Australian psych-lords Tame Impala take the early Pink Floyd-isms to the extreme on this, the first taster from their new album Lonerism, due in October on Modular Recordings (date TBC). For those who like to plan ahead, you can catch them at the Brixton Academy October 30.
11 Jul 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 11 July 2012
1. Spread throughout Soho for the short films of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival [Run Riot]
2. Listen to Andrew Martin’s Passenger’s History of the Tube [Ian Visits]
3. Eat at the Wapping Project [Tired of London]
11 Jul 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
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