Month: November 2011

3D Printing – The (ab)uses are limitless

20/11/2011

Science fiction can be spot-on sometimes. Sometimes it can be miles off too. The issue isn't exactly that sci-fi writers actually fail to predict the technology we'll be using in the future,...

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Loitered Lens: Her [Pics]

20/11/2011

Images by Carl Byron Batson 2011.  Carl Byron BatsonPhotographer, published poet, former party animal, body builder, grave robber to the stars and renowned chainsaw juggler, Carl can often be...

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Crass – The Last Supper

19/11/2011

In 2007, I got a call asking me if I wanted to play at a punk festival in the North of England.  I didn't even have a band at the time, hadn't played a gig in ages. It took me totally by...

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Shifting Sands of Mars

19/11/2011

Mars – so close yet so far. As reported elsewhere in Trebuchet, NASA's plans to land a car-sized exploration vehicle on the planet will soon, all things going to plan, provide details on...

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Denial and Addiction

19/11/2011

Punching a Hole in Bubbles of Denial and Addiction: Late Capitalism and Its Discontents of the American Autumn The global designs of the neo-liberal agenda have met the living architecture of a...

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Acid Mothers Temple – special acoustic show

18/11/2011

Last minute announcement!  Tomorrow night – Saturday 19 November – we will host the first ever acoustic set performed outside of Japan by legendary Japanese psych-rock ensemble ACID...

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Francois & The Atlas Mountains – Les Plus Beaux single preview

18/11/2011

Live dates announced for early 2012 & Free download of Piscine remix from Outer Limits Recordings Les Plus Beaux will be released as the second single from Fránçois & The...

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The Kinks in Mono – Retrospective

18/11/2011

Ten albums' worth, in mono. Is a Kinks retrospective more to do with to expiry dates on 1960s publishing contracts than with rediscovering lost classics? Because nobody needs to rediscover The...

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Dance Music Distributor Removes Catalogue from Spotify

17/11/2011

Musicians love to present a 'everything's fine, we're only in it for the music anyway' face to the public. It saves them from the accusation of being money-grubbing and, by the mere...

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Orienteers – Album Review

17/11/2011

Sometimes simplicity is bliss. Orienteers are the heavy-lidded lords of a sweet, sleepy land of achingly pretty melodies, peaceful reflection and fuzzy warmth. They seem to need very little to create...

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Dirty Cash for the Dull Stuff, Plastic for the Fantastic

16/11/2011

People who pay cash focus on different aspects of products than people who use credit cards, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Although previous research has already...

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Monkey Kung Fu Fights – An Academic in Africa

16/11/2011

“So who would win, a man who knew kung fu, or an adult male chimp?” “The chimp would kill you.” “Even if the man knew kung fu?” “It would not matter if he...

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Occupy Wall Street Evictions – Live Feed

15/11/2011

Who knows how long this guy will be able to broadcast, but whilst he's still going, it's worth watching. The most lucid and least sensational of the #OWS footage so far: Free desktop...

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Make Better Music 66: Embrace the Chaos

15/11/2011

In the midst of a vast YouTube binge the other evening (I’ve got a thirst for seeking out to interviews with musicians I like, and seem to be hopeless at turning YouTube off), I happened to come...

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She Don’t Want No Scrub – Sexytime for Spiders

14/11/2011

How very pleasant. Female spiders, not only famous for killing and eating their hapless male counterparts after sexual congress, also demand payment for the pleasure. The better the present, the...

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Opeth – Live, Brixton Academy

14/11/2011

Sweden's Opeth have come a long way in the past twenty years. Starting out playing death metal with growling vocals on the heaviest songs, their ambitious music mixed light and shade from the...

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Photo Essay – Judith Scott at Museum of Everything

14/11/2011

Museum of Everything showcases outsider art and people not usually recognised as artists. I loved the Judith Scott exhibition, and especially intriguing were the x-rays of the...

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Killer Solar Flares (and no, it’s not another prog rock article)

13/11/2011

OK, is it just me, or does receiving a press release from NASA insisting that, no, absolutely not, there is NO chance that huge solar flares will rip the Earth to pieces and toast us all in a fiery...

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Loitered Lens: Healthy Junkies [Pics]

13/11/2011

Melodic French edge meets English grunt. Parisian Lead singer Nina Courson teamed up with British guitarist Phil Honey-Jones just over a year ago to set about writing and recording one song for a...

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Daylight Savings Time – Bad for your kids’ health?

12/11/2011

Clocks spring forward, then fall back. The mnemonic of choice for one of the least popular aspects of Autumn. Resetting clocks and losing an hours daylight in the evening, just so we can have an...

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Charlene Soraia – Moonchild

12/11/2011

Charlene Soraia's ability to split her voice into ultra-shrill harmonics is a talent. There was a chap a few years ago with an act entitled 'The Puppetry of the Penis' who was able to...

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Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart (X Edition)

11/11/2011

Any album by a band's vocalist going solo needs to justify its existence by revealing some sort of personal vision, some characteristic that wouldn't be found on work by the band. Searching...

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Mike Patton

Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers

11/11/2011

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers by Mike Patton is out now on Ipecac...

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The Walls of St Pauls by Kailas Elmer 2013

Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

10/11/2011

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

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Heather Findlay and Chris Johnson – ‘Live at the Cafe 68’ – Review

10/11/2011

Recorded before an intimate audience of just thirty people, 'Live at the Café 68' is York singer-songwriter Heather Findlay's second release since leaving as lead singer of...

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Oh You Minx! Women, Roman Mosaics, and Stereotypes

09/11/2011

Stirring it. The cause of wars, famine, plague, pestilence, disease and just about everything else. Women, they're a terrible bunch. Stereotypes of women as troublemakers date back into the misty...

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Abdul’ll Fix It – An Academic in Africa

09/11/2011

For the last six weeks I have lived in Nigeria as an illegal immigrant.  My visa (which I don’t think ever technically allowed me to work here anyway) expired on the 6th of June, and no...

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Supersonic festival 2011 – review

08/11/2011

Begin transmission: Supersonic is the probably the greatest festival or true music lovers in the UK, perhaps further afield. Stop. 21st to 24th October. Attending Supersonic 2011 felt like being...

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Make Better Music 65: A Musical Process

08/11/2011

So this week, having been inspired by a particular piece of music, I’m going to focus on one particular kind of procedure - which doesn’t really have a name. I’ll just try to describe it....

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My Hummer Doesn’t Cause Climate Change – It’s Those Damned Jellyfish!

07/11/2011

This one looks like it came from the petrochemicals lobby. It's all a matter of perspective really. If you live on a low-lying island in the Tuamoto group and find that your ocean view has...

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