December 2012 - Trebuchet

One Last List: Staff Picks for 2012

31/12/2012

One final list of 2012's highlights. Best events, albums and gigs of the year, as picked by Trebuchet staffers...

Albums of 2012: Steven Turk’s Choice

30/12/2012

an indie rock record of tremendous quality where the singles are difficult to differentiate from the other tracks comprising this compelling slice of modern tribal psychedelic pop...

A Financial Cliff, a War on Christmas, and Other Dim Tidings

29/12/2012

The conversation, between humankind and catastrophic natural phenomenon, tends to be a bit one-sided....

2012 Round-Up: Carl Byron Batson

28/12/2012

Each year for me is remembered in pictures, the continual broadening of my musical boundaries, and the unfathomable yeses and nos from band PR and management. Example: Shakin’ Stevens says no, Bill...

In Defence of Music

27/12/2012

I am here in defence of music. Of music music---not social music sites, not music apps, not the ability to stream, or the ability to store songs in the cloud. I am here to extol the delicious,...

Locomotion

26/12/2012

The trick of getting a lift is not in persuading someone to stop. It is in being at exactly the right place at the right time such that the person who would give you a lift and is heading your way...

Albums of the Year: Editor’s Picks

25/12/2012

If Lana Del Rey, Flying Lotus or Grimes aren't on any Trebuchet lists this year, it's certainly not because we haven't heard them (indeed, how could we miss them?). And we're not coming over all...

Hanging Offence: Degree Art

24/12/2012

Certain elements of the Art World feel the need to exclude others by making them feel unworthy of enjoying it. Great art will never require smoke and mirrors to achieve its deserved attention....

Loitered Lens: Steve Harley

23/12/2012

Steve Harley plays London's HMV Forum, December 13th 2012. Photos...

Of Grief and Hope

22/12/2012

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...

Albums of the Year: Tim Hall’s Choices

20/12/2012

In many previous years any one of these might have been a strong candidate for my album of the year....

Life of Pi: Review

19/12/2012

Ultimately, Life of Pi as film is a visual complement to Yann Martel's story as opposed to a fresh telling of its own. But what a visual complement it is....

Patrick Wolf: The Sage, Gateshead [Live]

18/12/2012

There is an awe-filled silence throughout, punctuated by increasingly tearful sniffles and admirably contained sobs. ...

Hanging Offence: Debut Contemporary

17/12/2012

Opportunities are immense, they are global and with a little bit more planning and strategizing, a bit more knowledge, information and know-how when it comes down to how to navigate the art system,...

The Beginning of the End (of year lists)

16/12/2012

Trebuchet spurns faffed-about aggregated statistics and seasonally-adjusted ratings systems. Between now and 2013 we'll offer some of our writers' unsullied recollections of albums, events,...

Skirmish of Ideas?

15/12/2012

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

Go Fly a Kite

14/12/2012

And don't kites just lend themselves to metaphor? They punctuate the sky, return it to a human scale. They hug the wind. Our minds can't help but follow them up into the empyrean; watching them, we...

Ultraista: Cable Club [live]

13/12/2012

Trouble is, I’d rather see RADIOHEAD instead. And I don’t even like Radiohead....

Touched by Sir Jimmy

12/12/2012

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

Splashh, Wolf Alice, Big Deal: 100 Club [Live]

12/12/2012

With the tight jeans and pointed boots bands stagnating and the now middle-aged grebo bands reforming, East London hairdressers may hit hard times as the kids start growing out those crew cuts into...

The Punk Syndrome/Kovasikajuttu [Film]

11/12/2012

The reason this whole thing works is that it becomes, pretty quickly, a story about actual people, and not just ciphers for what is wrong with them, or the way that society treats them....

Hanging Offence: Breese Little

10/12/2012

We work on the premise that the gallery should always operate with increasing momentum, growing in step with the careers and aims of the artists we work with...

Loitered Lens: Splashh

09/12/2012

Carl Byron Batson photographs Splashh at the 100 Club, London...

A Case For Culture

08/12/2012

The arts can engage everyone. Most of all, surely, we want those who may not otherwise be able to join in, to find the world of art available and open to them - whether for simple enjoyment or for...

Vhils: Devoid

07/12/2012

Regardless of any predisposition against doors, Vhils latest exhibition is deep, rich and amazingly crafted. ...

Shoot! Existential Photography

06/12/2012

An exhibition tracing the history of a fascinating fairground sideshow that sprung up following World War 1: the photographic shooting gallery. ...

Fanga & Maalem Abdullah Guinea: Fangnawa Experience

06/12/2012

…. by the third track, the constituent elements meld into a sound that is properly danceable, and moreover, distinctive. Fangnawa Experience by Fanga & Maalem Abdullah ...

Hoxton (Alco) Hall

05/12/2012

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....

Childhood Break Through

04/12/2012

Last month’s inclusion in the popular music press and a very favourable review in The Guardian have finally put these guys on the radar and are all good indications that Childhood may now be...