London agenda for Thursday 26 April 2012
1. Hear and watch a live soundtrack to the best-worst horror film, Suspiria [Le Cool]
2. Listen to Molly Crabapple at the Groucho Club discuss her Week in Hell [Run Riot]
3. Discuss ‘the fortunes of young athletes born and raised in Bekoji’ in the doc Town of Runners with director Jerry Rothwell [Don’t Panic]
4.Exchange Aspen for the O2 and view the Sundance London Film Festival [Time Out] (And check out SNIPE’s picks)
5. Learn how Dickens wrote about prostitutes [Ian Visits]
6. Explore the unexplained with London Fortean Society [Tired of London]
26 Apr 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 26 April 2012
1. Discover Bob Stanley’s history of the telly test card at A Girl, A Clown, A Blackboard [Le Cool]
2. Listen to ‘Mighty British folk tunes made magical and sung in gorgeous Geordie accents by Rachel and Rebecca Unthank’ [Run Riot]
3. Hear ‘a show inspired by the first ladies of the stage and silver screen – Shirley Bassey, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday and Marlene Dietrich’ by Rachael Roberts [Don’t Panic]
4. If one can be arsed, listen to the 2012 Voltaire lecture The Importance of Being Interested [Ian Visits]
5. Talk to Strangers [Tired of London]
25 Apr 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 24 April
1. Drink with three people who launched strange businesses [Run Riot]
2. Listen to James Wilkes – poet-in-residence at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience – explore how the brain understands the voices of others [Flavorpill]
3. Hear the organic electronic technology of Origamibiro [Don’t Panic]
4. Find out why London in the Eighteenth Century was A Great and Monstrous Thing [Ian Visits]
5. Visit St Mary’s Willesden [Tired of London]
6. Get free tickets to amazing violinist and Of Montreal member Kishi Bashi’s show at The Waiting Room [London Gigs]
24 Apr 2012
London agenda for Monday 23 April 2012
1. Listen to an artist talk with David Shrigley [Le Cool]
2. Change the world, with a little help from UCL researchers [Run Riot]
3. Enjoy Don Giovanni as a gay, debauched playboy and nightclub owner at Heaven [Flavorpill]
4. Hear comic singer/songwriter extraordinaire Helen Goldwyn [Don’t Panic]
5. Walking the dead of the Middle Ages [Ian Visits]
6. Eat at Pimlico Fresh [Tired of London]
23 Apr 2012
London agenda for Friday 20 April 2012
1. Celebrate the 5th anniversary of Kilburn’s Westbury [Le Cool]
2. Experience late night foxtrots, moonshine in teapots, pearls and flappers, bootleggers and millionaires at the Great Gatzby [Run Riot]
3. Get wrecked in Shacklewell at the Robot Elephant Records Showcase [Flavorpill]
4. View the first solo show in the UK of work by Sergio Fermariello [Don’t Panic]
5. Pay £75 to see the Vogue Festival at the Royal Geographic Society and do something [Time Out]
6. Prove that Nevil Maskelyne, the villain of Dava Sobel’s Longitude was a stand-up guy. [Ian Visits]
7. Experience the Georgian Parlour at Dr Johnson’s House [Tired of London]
20 Apr 2012
London agenda for Thursday 19 April 2012
1. Watch Amy Grimehouse ‘get over-excited, dress decorate and play games like Bab’s Antiques Challenge, Mrs O’s Blindfold Tea Tray Trial and dance till 1am’ at the Book Club [Le Cool]
2. Listen to 30 years worth of war stories from Michael Lawrence [Run Riot]
3. Hear a ‘night of future pointed, bass induced electronica’ from Heresy [Don’t Panic]
4. View the ‘ the crème de la crème of sketch comedy’ at The Joy of Sketch [Time Out]
5. Recognise Yom Hashoah with a talk on The Jewish Predicament in the Aftermath of World War Two [Ian Visits]
6. Experience the Georgian Parlour at Dr Johnson’s House [Tired of London]
19 Apr 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 18 April 2012
1. Go solo to How To Spend Time Alone [Le Cool]
2. Watch a fusion of drama, edge of seat acrobatics & live music at Backgammon for Beginners [Run Riot]
3. Don’t Panic says ‘electronic beats, African rhythms, rich piano chords, shimmering electric guitars and an all-female polyphonic vocal group to create a colourful sound-world’ by Francois & the Atlas Mountain. So that’s where to be. [Don’t Panic]
4. Explore the relationship between the palace and the press at Media and the Monarchy [Ian Visits]
5. Visit Syon Park [Tired of London]
18 Apr 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 17 April 2012
1. Watch ‘the UK’s most exciting performance poet’ Kate Tempest at the Albany [Run Riot]
2. Listen to Hatchum Social at their album launch party at Cargo [Don’t Panic]
3. Work out how to have sex in space [Ian Visits]
4. Learn to sail on Island Barn Reservoir [Tired of London]
17 Apr 2012
London agenda for Monday 16 April 2012
1. Angling, music, and book site Caught by the River presents the film Patience (After Sebald) at Rough Trade East
2. Watch ‘one of the UK’s most fascinating and stylish young theatre-makers’, Melanie Wilson at Toynbee Studios [Run Riot]
3. Hear Noah And The Whale + Bahamas + Rae Morris at Royal Albert Hall [Time Out]
4. Check out what the merchant navy was doing during the Falklands Campaign [Ian Visits]
5. Explore Tooting Commons [Tired of London]
16 Apr 2012
London agenda for Friday 13 April 2012
1. Get a teaser of 1234 at Rich Mix [Le Cool]
2. Watch Friday the 13th in The Yard at Bethnal Green [Run Riot]
3. Hear echoes of the ‘soul greats of yesteryear, Neo African rhythms and echoes of Marvin Gaye, Jon Lucien and Bobby McFerrin’ with Randolph Matthews Voce Solo [Don’t Panic]
4. Be mesmerised by Cillian Murphy in his one-man show, Misterman [Time Out]
5. Understand Beer and theory around 1800 [Ian Visits]
6. Visit Kensington Palace [Tired of London]
13 Apr 2012
Snipe Highlights
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