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Laura Snapes

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Laura Snapes
Born1989 (age 35–36)[1]
🏳️ NationalityBritish
💼 Occupation
  • Music journalist
  • critic
  • writer

Laura Snapes is a British music journalist from Cornwall[2], who is deputy music editor at The Guardian.[3] Snapes has contributed to a variety of publications such as The Guardian, NME,[4][5] Q[6], BBC,[7][8][9][10][11][12] and Pitchfork. In 2019, Snapes wrote the book Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!,[13] an oral history and archive of the 30-year career of the French band Phoenix. The book was co-written by the band's members Thomas Mars, Deck d'Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz, and Christian Mazzalai.[14]

In April 2016, Snapes' documentary The Drop Out Boogie about university dropouts was presented on BBC Radio 4.[15] In June 2018, Snapes produced an audio documentary for Audible's Pitch series, titled Mother Tongue.[16] In 2019, Snapes interviewed Taylor Swift.[17][18][19] In September 2020, Snapes was the recipient of the Reeperbahn Festival International Music Journalism Award (IMJA) for Best Music Journalist of the Year - English.[20]

In 2015, Snapes interviewed Mark Kozelek, of the band Sun Kil Moon over e-mail. On 1 June 2015, Kozelek improvised a song about Snapes during a concert at the Barbican in London, performing to an audience of 1,900 people. He told the audience, "There's this girl named Laura Snapes, she's a journalist. She's out to do a story on me, has been contacting a lot of people who know me." The song included derogatory lyrics, including, "Laura Snapes totally wants to fuck me / get in line, bitch ... Laura Snapes totally wants to have my babies." Snapes posted audio of the incident online and wrote about her experience in a piece for The Guardian.[21][22] Snapes later included the quote in an op-ed for The Guardian.[23] The article was quoted by Amanda Petrusich in The New Yorker,[24] and was referenced by musician Lauren Mayberry.[25]

In November 2019, singer Amanda Palmer posted on Twitter to accuse The Guardian's "music editor" of blacklisting her from the publication after it did not feature her album.[26][27][28][29] She later specified that this meant Snapes,[29] who had previously blocked Palmer on Twitter;[28][30] Snapes detailed a "bizarre campaign" of harassment from Palmer, including hiring a journalist to ask Snapes why she was not a fan.[28] Palmer also invited Snapes to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and allegedly planned to devote a segment of her Europe tour to how Snapes "orchestrated a Guardian-wide ban on coverage of her album.[26][28] Ben Beaumont-Thomas, music editor of The Guardian, defended Snapes on Twitter, writing that an artist is "not automatically entitled to coverage" and explaing that The Guardian has a limited number of albums it can cover each week.[28] Snapes called the experience "disturbing";[26][28] in 2020 she was featured in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review discussing relationships between musicians and critics on social media, where "artist-loyal audiences can reach into the millions" and "may confront a writer who lacks the manpower to respond".[27]

Works[edit]

  • "The Drop Out Boogie". Seriously... 15 April 2016. BBC Radio 4.
  • "Bad Bosses". Do What You Want: A Zine About Mental Wellbeing. London: Park Communications. 2017. pp. 28–32. ISBN 978-1-5272-0796-7.
  • "Hang On To The Night". Do What You Want: A Zine About Mental Wellbeing. London: Park Communications. 2017. pp. 96–105. ISBN 978-1-5272-0796-7.[31]
  • "Mother Tongue". Pitch (Podcast). Audible Original. 28 June 2018.
  • Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!. Rizzoli. 2019. ISBN 978-0-8478-6483-6. Search this book on 240pp.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Tate, Greg; Petridis, Alexis; Winship, Lyndsey; Elan, Priya; Klosterman, Chuck; Snapes, Laura; Hans, Simran (1 March 2019). "'Too big to cancel': can we still listen to Michael Jackson?". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Snapes, Laura (24 October 2018). "The CD-R is dead – and Generation Z are lucky to have avoided it". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Laura Snapes". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Guardian Student Media Awards: shortlist announced". The Guardian. 28 September 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "A Blast from the past". BBC News. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Manno, Lizzie (16 October 2019). "Laura Snapes Discusses Working with Phoenix on New Oral History Book". Paste. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Blossoms's Tom Ogden, Mark Clemmit and Laura Snapes". Steve Lamacq's Roundtable. 11 August 2016. BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "With Loyle Carner, Laura Snapes and Mark Steel.". Steve Lamacq's Roundtable. 5 October 2017. BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "Tim Wheeler, Nilufer Yanya & Laura Snapes". Steve Lamacq's Roundtable. 29 March 2018. BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  10. ↑ "...with Laura Snapes, James Lavelle & Steve Mason.". Steve Lamacq's Roundtable. 4 April 2019. BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  11. ↑ "John Robb, Laura Snapes and Siobhan Fahey". Steve Lamacq's Roundtable. 24 October 2019. BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  12. ↑ "Marcus Brigstocke, Laura Snapes and Jim Bob". Steve Lamacq's Roundtable. 16 January 2020. BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  13. ↑ "Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!". Rizzoli. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  14. ↑ Serota, Maggie (19 July 2019). "Phoenix Announce Book Titled Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!". Spin. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  15. ↑ "The Drop Out Boogie". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  16. ↑ Sturges, Fiona (1 July 2018). "Podcast: Pitch — consistently surprising". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  17. ↑ Snapes, Laura (24 August 2019). "Taylor Swift: 'I was literally about to break'". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  18. ↑ Spruch, Kirsten (23 August 2019). "Taylor Swift Says She's 'Obviously Pro-Choice,' Criticizes Trump: 'He Thinks This Is an Autocracy'". Billboard. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  19. ↑ White, Adam (24 August 2019). "Taylor Swift: 'I wasn't educated enough to talk about politics'". The Independent. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  20. ↑ "Winners 2020 | International Music Journalism Award". imja.reeperbahnfestival.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  21. ↑ Battersby, Matilda (5 June 2015). "Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon calls female journalist 'a b***h' in front of 1,900 people". The Independent. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  22. ↑ Snapes, Laura (4 June 2015). "I interviewed Mark Kozelek. He called me a 'bitch' on stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  23. ↑ Snapes, Laura (14 February 2019). "The Ryan Adams allegations are the tip of an indie-music iceberg". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  24. ↑ Petrusich, Amanda (19 February 2019). "Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth". The New Yorker. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  25. ↑ Cirisano, Tatiana (14 March 2019). "Shirley Manson & CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry Talk #MeToo Movement, Female Representation at Festivals at SXSW". Billboard. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Conditt, Jessica (13 December 2019). "The crowdfunded cult of Amanda Palmer". Engadget. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Ottenhof, Luke (6 March 2020). "Music criticism in the time of stans and haters". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 28.5 Cohen, Libby (21 November 2019). "Amanda Palmer dragged for 'demanding' coverage of her music". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Reid, Poppy (25 November 2019). "Amanda Palmer divides and polarises with 'twisted behaviour' toward journalist". The Industry Observer. The Brag. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  30. ↑ Mason, Jessica (23 November 2019). "What the Hell is Going On With Amanda Palmer?". The Mary Sue. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  31. ↑ Britton, Luke Morgan (3 March 2017). "Tegan and Sara's Sara Quin and more feature in Ruby Tandoh's new mental health zine". NME. Retrieved 5 October 2020.

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