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...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 2)]

28/06/2012

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

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

When in doubt, blame the Proles

16/06/2012

'Our political class don’t have capacity to do anything else but blame increasing numbers of people, to avoid discussing a politics they didn’t realise they were charged with...

Syd Arthur : On and On

15/06/2012

Syd Arthur wear their Pink Floyd influences openly. There’s the Syd Barret reference in their name, as well as a typographical similarity between the A for Arthur on their album cover and the...

The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls [Live]

14/06/2012

It is with sadness that I must report the departure of The Screamin’ Sugar Skulls. A band I had the pleasure of bearing witness to just this April 2012. The band decided it is the right time...

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club + Fever Fever : Live

13/06/2012

'Every review calls us a "Norwich three-piece"…. No, "FEMALE-FRONTED Norwich three-piece"….' Fever Fever bemoan halfway through their set. And I guess this...

The Overcoat : Pleasance Theatre

12/06/2012

The Overcoat is a Finnish Play, at the Pleasance Theatre in London, produced by the Scottish theatre company ACE. It was performed at Edinburgh Festival last year and is part of a project to bring...

Pandamonium : Signal Gallery

11/06/2012

The rather cheeky Signal Gallery has challenged all of us, from the panda lovers to the miserable cynics, to see this exhibition and remain with our hearts unmelted. They believe it can’t be...

King Mob Rock Cruise

10/06/2012

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

Loitered Lens: The Indegenerates [photos]

10/06/2012

'they worked so well together it was hard to believe they had barely reached puberty. Sweat and sebum, hormones and hairgel – it never gets old. If you like great new fresh rock and roll...

2:54 [Album Review]

09/06/2012

The debut album from sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow has a milder feel than the live shows, the punch and rawness extracted to leave a more mellow sound. Since the beginning of 2012 2:54 have been...

Kate Tempest: Wasted [Theatre]

09/06/2012

Wasted is the new play by brilliant rapper, poet and spoken word artist Kate Tempest. This is her first play performed by Pleasance Plough Theatre company from Bristol. The play opens with a...

Arirang [Cinema]

08/06/2012

Marking Korean director Kim Ki-duk's return to filmmaking, and indeed the world in general, Arirang is an interesting one that will divide opinion. Having self-imposed a punishing, three-year...

Ian Francis: 10,000 Years from Now

08/06/2012

The degraded space shown in Francis' work appears aged, as the layered scenes hang on the canvas, caught in motion, peeling with time and abrasive in action. ...

Piano Magic: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet

07/06/2012

Eleven albums into a music career which can lay a fair claim to the title 'cult band', Piano Magic resist categorisation by virtue of developing and altering their musical style with each...

Tav Falco [Interview]

07/06/2012

There's a mixed crowd at Rough Trade East, a record shop in ever-so hip Brick Lane. They're listening to Tav Falco read extracts from his new book, Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma and...

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