June 2012 - Trebuchet

Viva le Rock/Gypsy Hotel: The Garage

30/06/2012

I’ve always found Highbury Garage (I’m still refusing to call it Relentless Garage) a rather sterile venue, but when the evening began with a male unicyclist, Count Adriano Fettuchini, stripping...

In the Name of My Father, Part 2

30/06/2012

Not too long ago, I had a dream wherein I stood gazing over the atrium of a large complex of multi-story structures. Inadvertently, I dropped my "special" writing pen…It glinted...

Kangding Ray Monad XI

30/06/2012

Monad XI is the latest in the Stroboscopic Arfects label's ongoing experimental series and marks a further development in the label's thoughtful aesthetics....

Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies [Live]

29/06/2012

A Retro-rock night and musical fashions, anachronism, mending old ground, conversational racism and phenomenal guitar playing. Let’s burn something. The Borderline is a place where Rock and...

Poo Power – Energy from Excrement

28/06/2012

Energy from excrement: Scientists have invented a new toilet system that will turn human waste into electricity...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 2)]

28/06/2012

Review of gothic industrial festival Wave Gotik Treffen 2012...

Shimi, the musical robot

27/06/2012

Sex, drugs? Bet it doesn't even ask for an advance on royalties. Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Shimi, a musical companion...

Mikhael Paskalev’s ‘Jive Babe’

27/06/2012

Contributing to the buzz-mongering, hype-aggregating, SEO-chasing churnalism that passes for music writing in the era of revenue-by-pageview web publishing makes irritating little tics spasm under...

Loitered Lens: Screamin’ Sugar Skulls

27/06/2012

‘a nightmarish peek into a world our parents warned us about if we were caught masturbating, didn’t finish our homework, eat our greens or say our prayers at bedtime’. So says Col. Jon,...

Oh come on, let the old folks get it on if they want to. Institutionalised infantalisation blights the provision of care for the old, and for all that we may quip smugly to ourselves about friction...

Total Recall

26/06/2012

Total Recall, Cheese and Tofu: An elementary and culinary guide to not fretting about the remake Like many, when the pre-trailer trailer of the new Total Recall was released I was...

Declining Testosterone is Not Natural

25/06/2012

'"Also, regular sexual activity tends to increase testosterone," he explained.' An interesting interpretation of the realities of marriage there from Gary Wittert MD (professor of...

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing

25/06/2012

GOSH IT’S A HIPPY Sightings of the world’s best known comic writer are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. Gosh were honoured by his presence on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, seated...

Work starts on fossil fuel free cargo ship

24/06/2012

Arr Harr! Swab the decks you lazy lubbers! Hoist the mainbrace, keelhaul the yardarm and pack the bilges with legal-under-maritime-law Filipino crewmen working for slave wages. Working sail is coming...

In the Name of My Father

24/06/2012

My parents modest, single-level, brick home stands on property that was once part of a sprawling estate owned by the Candler family, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola patricians. Built during the post-war,...

Good parenting more beneficial than money

23/06/2012

The relief that this news piece prompts in a sizeable number of male readers will be tangible from the moon. Sons of fathers with high incomes tend to end up with higher than average incomes...

Where Do We Go Now? [Film]

23/06/2012

Set in a remote, mountainside Lebanese village, where the church and the mosque stand side by side, you’d expect Where Do We Go Now? to be a political affair. Particularly when you consider the...

Kitsune Soleil Mix

22/06/2012

Much in the same vein as the earnest would-be intellectual stilting the atmosphere at an after hours house party, Intelligent Dance Music (for all its worthy pseudo philosophic concept and eagerness...

Sex and Love: The Brain Knows the Difference

21/06/2012

It seems sad but significant, that the research methodology involved used erotic pictures to stimulate sexual desire, but a picture of the subject's 'significant other' to provoke...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 1)]

21/06/2012

How do you review an event that takes place over four days in multiple venues, includes numerous styles of dark music and if done properly takes the rest of the month or more to recover from? To...

Pirate Bay Evades BT Blocks within Minutes

20/06/2012

The obligation to block access to the Pirate Bay was volubly resisted by BT and many of the communications group's UK competitors....

La Sera [Live Review]

20/06/2012

Yes, they were all very competent musicians. Yes, her voice was crystal clear and soared above the music very nicely indeed . It was easily to imagine some of these songs being used in some sequences...

Methane Levels Threaten Florida

19/06/2012

Florida's going to drown, and although the study that suggests it is focussed on melting icecaps, it's pretty obvious that all those noxious methane cowfarts have something to do with it. Is...

Baddies: Camden Barfly

19/06/2012

Ahh, The Barfly, Camden. A little place dear to my heart. The scene of many a crime, mass alcohol consumption and general shenanigans. It’s compact, the lighting is bad but the sound is good,...

FOUNDation builds houses from skips

18/06/2012

'Dumpsterhouses', a concept developed by Utrecht-based radical recyclers Foundation take the instantly recognisable structure of the refuse skip, and uses it as the basis to create small...

Hotel Room Microbes Like TV Too

18/06/2012

Well at least it shows that people in hotels wash their hands after using the toilet. It comes as something of a surprise that in a study on microbial levels in hotel rooms, that bathroom door...

Panic Room: Skin

18/06/2012

Over the past four years, Welsh rock band Panic Room have established a strong reputation both on record and as a live band. Their dynamic mix of rock, pop, metal, folk and jazz manages to combine...

Bedwyr Williams bound for Venice Bienniale

17/06/2012

Bedwyr Williams in a project jointly curated by Mostyn and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales will be the artist to represent Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 International...

Loitered Lens: The Damned

17/06/2012

Founding members of The Damned, Brian James & Rat Scabies, performed the classic first Damned album Damned Damned Damned in its entirety...

A Scientific Model to Predict Movie Flops

16/06/2012

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models. The researchers...

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