Month: April 2013

Mark Latham, Photographer [Interview]

Aggression is probably the biggest emotion because a lot of the stuff I shoot is aggressive music and it comes across in the shots....

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Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

Despite the bands occasional use of the term "prog" in promotion, they don't go in for grandiose epics. ...

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Anita Goldstein : Interview

The West-Bank wall is covered on its Palestinian side with lots of graffiti (many slogans, but also street art) whereas its Israeli side is completely blank. I think it's a nice metaphor...

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Simian Mobile Disco : Delicacies

Maybe you had to be there' Dave Rush reviews Simian Mobile Disco's live album...

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Life’s a bitch but Thatcher was a politician

"Women are human" shocker. Yes, even Margaret Thatcher....

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Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Part 2]

'I was in and out of the closet. I was a very flamboyant gay teenager and became a rock ‘n’ roller'...

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The Shaking Sensations : Start Stop Worrying

This is an album to induce a trancelike post-rock euphoria, rather than one to focus on. ...

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Jaga Jazzist : Live with the Britten Sinfonia

A crazy band who make crazy music, then. And their latest album is suitably mental....

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Guapo – to play again!

Guapo and Stars in Battledress to play Thursday 25 April @ Corsica Studios, London. Tickets here. ...

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Reverend Elvis : Desperation

Think Death/Psycho/Gospel/Blues/Country Billy and then some. Everything Psychobilly should be, but isn’t. ...

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Celina Teague : Brave New World Hits a Glitch

Teague applies a moral surface to the artwork, as such, she reveals herself as an activist and her paintings become personal tales of her protests...

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About Trebuchet

Trebuchet’s writers are university lecturers, record label owners, gallery curators, professional journalists, avid readers and you....

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The Icarus Line on Giant Drag

Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line talks about producing the 2013 release by Giant Drag - Waking Up is Hard to Do....

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Hanging Offence : Charlie Dutton Gallery

'communications between gallerists, artists and the viewers can become misunderstood: rudeness, anxieties and insecurities are a lethal cocktail'...

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Loitered Lens: Mala Rodriguez

Mala Rodriguez brings some Latin smoulder to the Village Underground....

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Swans Review : Mouth to Mouth

Review of Mouth to Mouth Festival. Curated by Swans leader Michael Gira news of Mouth to Mouth bolstered expectations of an loud night of outsider noise and insider musical elitism. ...

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Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Pt.1]

When The Cramps asked me to be in The Cramps, I quit everything, threw my shoes in their air and my books out the window and said, I’m going with you!...

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And then she was gone

Perhaps some of the cheers were from people glad she was gone, who knows?...

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Metal Machine(gun) Music : DISARM

DISARM, currently showing at the Lisson Gallery in London features playable musical instruments created from illegal firearms and artworks of sci-fi sonic weapons...

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Thatcher in DegreeArt

Will her image become a universal iconograph? And if it does, what exactly will it signify?...

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The Legacy of Thatcher

As Thatcher is buried, we examine the legacy of her policies in several key areas...

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Mrs T’s Southern Stuffed Ham

I will be thinking of Maggie when I next have a big ol’ lick...

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Counterfeit i : Mindfulness and Music

'Dark' music can be empowering because in listening to it, your mind is brought through some places that you may not go on your own....

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Hanging Offence : Ruth Garde

'I'm not sure there is such a thing as an artistic controversy, but there have certainly been many controversies surrounding art' Ruth Garde, curator, talks to Trebuchet about Michaelangelo, Bernini...

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Ian McCulloch : Holy Ghosts

Mac's voice has aged with the same sweet languid complexity as an oak-barelled Sauternes....

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The Most Interesting Man In The World: George W. Bush

The overall trait of the dog is loyalty, an instinct of which George W. Bush seemed to possess none. So why is he painting them?...

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Troller : [Album Review]

Troller seem undecided which direction to go in – sepulchral or affirmative and this seems to be the sound of a group still in transit....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

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Thatcher’s War on the Self

Thatcherism, with its jingoism, slogans and partisanship, was all about destroying the self. ...

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Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs [Live Review]

Essentially, they need to be detained Clockwork Orange-style with their eyelids clamped open and forced to watch the New York Dolls until their guyliner runs...

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