October 2012 - Trebuchet

Trouble at t’Mill: Radio 2 Axe Mike Harding

31/10/2012

Folk. An English lower middle-class museum music. Ouch....

Sandy: Satellite View

31/10/2012

A satellite view of Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the US coast...

A Spear of Hope

31/10/2012

Giving young people a ‘vision of the possible’ under such bleak circumstances may well seem impossible, but there are helping hands out there and one such pair of hands is an organisation called...

Col. Jon’s Cherokee Corn Pone

30/10/2012

It’s another favourite snack in these parts and something that I like to have the little woman cook up for me whilst I hang up the goat on Hallowe’en. Up until now this has been a very closely...

Hanging Offence: Little Black Gallery

30/10/2012

'The UK is far behind the USA and France in the photography market and needs to catch up.' ...

Beyond Space and Time: New Physics

29/10/2012

"Our result gives weight to the idea that quantum correlations somehow arise from outside spacetime, in the sense that no story in space and time can describe them,"...

The Vudu Experiment

29/10/2012

Words have power whether intended or not. It is no coincidence that a venture named Sub Prime was the tipping point for the onset of this particular disaster....

Gun restrictions save lives

28/10/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapn a dramatic denouement of the inpenetrable mysteries of the bleedin’ obvious, US researchers figure out that restricting...

Loitered Lens: Rival Sons, Electric Ballroom

28/10/2012

Rival Sons, live at Camden's Electric Ballroom, photographs. No wrongness....

Robots as Careworkers

27/10/2012

Adults said they are willing to use a robot for reminders to take medicine, but they are more comfortable if a person helps them decide which medication to take. ...

Empire’s Halloween Pt 1

27/10/2012

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal....

Size Doesn’t Matter (Shape Does)

26/10/2012

'the sexual organs change most rapidly of all morphological features during evolution', the wonders of science bring us new research on the sexual organs of beetles. Hooray!...

Forgotten Tomb: …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

26/10/2012

'if it’s a pastiche, it’s a well-written, executed, and compelling pastiche that could almost be mainstream-friendly, were it not for the grim chords and screams'...

Col. Jon’s Pumpkin Soup

25/10/2012

Hallowe’en is my favourite time of year and along with the customary trick or treating, cow tipping and playing with my nuts at the cemetery, I always like to make a batch of Great Great Grandma...

Hanging Offence: Wapping Project Bankside

25/10/2012

It is not an annex of The Wapping Project, it is a separate entity informed by all of the wild things I have done over the years at The Wapping Project....

Doro Pesch: Interview

24/10/2012

I have never been degraded or considered the second sex as a woman. I was always supported and respected because I had the chance to work with the best people. And good people, they know better!'...

Gaga in Green: Scientists name fern genus after the singer

24/10/2012

'At one stage of its life, the new genus Gaga has somewhat fluid definitions of gender and bears a striking resemblance to one of Gaga's famous costumes.' So they named the fern GAGA...

Deftones UK Tour

24/10/2012

The Deftones have nothing left to prove. They have 'the rock' and now they want to share it with you....

JKutchma: Interview

24/10/2012

He held himself like a man of another era. Like he had a shed full of tools and knew how to use them....

Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

Hanging Offence: Heartbeat Gallery

23/10/2012

A successful and well-established commercial space that is known for it’s unpretentious, welcoming environment that evokes familiarity within visitors and erases any notions of elitism commonly...

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

Miliband at the TUC: What He Really Wanted to Say

22/10/2012

I have said whoever was in government now there would still need to be some cuts, which means you will spot little or no difference,. But on the upside, Polly Toynbee will be happy....

Various Artists: Stellate 3 (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

22/10/2012

The Stellate series can be recommended not just as a collectors' wet dream or a dealers' safe bet but as an experimental series producing consistently interesting music that might not otherwise have...

Spinefarm Need Street Team!

21/10/2012

Spinefarm records are looking for street team footsoldiers. Armed with wallpaper paste and a sheaf of flyers, it's the way into the music business that doesn't involve bassplayers sleeping on your...

Loitered Lens: Death Letters

21/10/2012

On support duty for Anneke Van Giersbergen at the Borderline and a stint opening for Enter Shikari, Death Letters are on a trajectory to shuck off bridesmaid's syndrome. ...

Cretaceous Acoustics Comeback

20/10/2012

Global warming appears to be leading us back to the similar ocean acoustic conditions as those that existed 110 million years ago...

Twelfth Night: Live and Let Live

20/10/2012

Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their...

Cedric de Smedt: Illustrator

19/10/2012

Cédric De Smedt illustrates torment and despair without flinching....

Knife-Fighting Frogs!

19/10/2012

Combat-ready spikes which shoot from fingers sounds like the weaponry of a comic book hero, but a Japanese scientist has found exactly this in a rare breed of frog....

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