London agenda for Tuesday 10 April 2012
1. Hear the Warehouse-era New York voice of Nottingham’s Ronika at the Old Blue Last [Flavorpill]
2. Watch Prinzhorn Dance School at Madame JoJo’s [Don’t Panic]
3. Listen to Jonathan Haidt on why we all find it so hard to get along, at the Royal Institution [Ian Visits]
4. Drink at the Three Stags [Tired of London]
10 Apr 2012
They're sculpting a replica London at the Japanese sand museum, just for fun
We don’t have rights to the pictures, because we’re cheap and honest, but you can see them all here. My favourite is the one with the umbrelllas and rain.
Design you trust – Sand sculptures exhibited at tottori dune
Architizer – Building a miniature London in Japan grain by grain
10 Apr 2012
Daily "Twitter poll" of how Mayoral candidates are doing online
Will Parbury’s aiming to do one here. A conclusion from his first attempt:
“The three establishment parties with male candidates all have more negative tweets than positive. The Independent and Green female candidates have more positive ratings.”
Could be intriguing, although I suspect it will tell us more about Twitter than it does about the election.
10 Apr 2012
Were the Shard climbers frauds?
No, they were not, it appears from this sceptical post by photographer Paul Clarke, and the reassuring comments that follow.
Paul Clarke – Shard and Fraud?
09 Apr 2012
Steve Roggenbuck
Steve Roggenbuck is an American poet, video blogger, vegan, buddhist and internet celebrity who creates a continuous stream of output via his Live My Lyf webite.
Watch Steve’s vieos here and talk to Steve on Facebook here. You can buy his first book, CRUNK JUICE, here.
If you happen to decide Steve is doing something brilliant and get totally interested in his lyf and his work, you can donate money to support his travelling and blogging here. He says: “This winter I decided to drop out of my school and travel the country to stay with friends while I blog/write full-time. I’m doing this because think I’ve found my lief purpose in blogging, and I’m stubborn about doing anything else. If you want to support me in following my dreams, and you don’t really need a t-shirt, then I am very very grateful for your donation. Thank you so much friends. Your support means so so much to me. I am working hard to be your poet.”
07 Apr 2012
Cut Your Hair
Spanish indielords Cut Your Hair release a sunny, infectious debut single “Utah In Pictures” on April 30th. It sounds like someone is meowing through a reverb unit in the chorus. Cats are so hot right now. Lovely stuff.
05 Apr 2012
Phone Home from the Edge by Dinowalrus
The frankly poorly named Dinowalrus are a three-piece from Brooklyn, fronted by sometime Titus Andronicus guitarist and visual artist Pete Feigenhaum. The kinda freaky track/video above is taken from their debut UK release: Best Behaviour is out June 5th via the consistently awesome Heist or Hit Records. Their music is almost impossible to categorize, veering as it does between dense, ear-ringing psych, springy shoegaze and the almost baggy-like pastiche of lead single Beth Steel. It is however, resolutely wonderful.
05 Apr 2012
The Dulwich Picture Gallery collection is now on Google Art Project
It includes this kickass composition entitled Fox and Poultry, by Paul de Vos.
05 Apr 2012
Powersolo
The Railthin Brothers are a scary looking pair.
These two rib-pokingly skinny, gangly, tattooed Danish siblings front their four-piece rock ‘n’ roll band Powersolo with deranged vigour. They stare into the crowd with a piercing twin gaze that cuts through chatter, noise, attention and rational thought, gangly doppelgangers who terrify me in a way no other band ever has. They are so completely alive in the moment that there is no predicting what they might do. “These guys,” I say, leaning over to my friend, “look like two guys that could fucking kill you.”
Powersolo isn’t a gig you are at, it is a gig that has swallowed you whole, and you’re in the belly of the whale with the Railthin Brothers peering right at you. Their music is utterly insane, full of screeches and screams, the dark, clanging grooves of psychobilly and deranged new wave yelps, the self-evident-truths of the blues crushed into toxic paste with the in-the-red peaks of garage rock. This is a fearsome concoction that requires commitment from the crowd; when this band are playing they are holding court, and you fucking watch or you fucking leave. The venue disappears when they’re in your line of vision; a shabby pub becomes, somehow, the theatre set on which an existential rock ‘n’ roll parable unfolds.
Powersolo aren’t a band living their onstage dreams: they are a band living on the stage. There’s nobody else like them, and they’re coming for you.
Powersolo play in London tonight at the Blow Up Club.
05 Apr 2012
05 Apr 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
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