January 2015 - Trebuchet

A picture of documents by Nuttakit/Freedigitalphotos.net

Privatising Child Protection

31/01/2015

Protection of vulnerable children is not possible if those delivering the services are not obliged to follow established rules....

Pretty Vicious

30/01/2015

Pretty Vicious: four disaffected indie teenagers eager to put their hormone-fuelled stain on the music scene...

Sometimes you have doubts and delusions and you go off the path a bit [Youth]

29/01/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”M/dropcapartin “Youth” Glover, known by many as the bassist and founding member of the inﬂuential Post-Punk band Killing Joke, is...

On Working at Barnes and Noble

28/01/2015

“You want to be a writer,” Kelly said. “Why don’t you work at Barnes & Noble?” “I wear clothes, too. Maybe I should get a job in a sweatshop.”...

I’m not particularly interested in redoing old films (Colin Vaines)

27/01/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”C/dropcapolin Vaines: writer, educator, film producer, cigar smoker and bon vivant is a busy man and his inscrutable demeanour contains an...

Napalm Death : Apex Predator – Easy Meat

26/01/2015

The visceral fury of punk with the dexterity and precision of metal...

Loitered Lens : Diagrams

25/01/2015

Diagrams live at the Lexington...

The Marigold : Kanaval

23/01/2015

An intersection between prog, drone, cinematic noise and the cathartic gospel...

Chris Spedding : Joyland

22/01/2015

Featuring partial reunions of King Mob, with cameos from Johnny Marr and Ian McShane, Joyland is greasy, elemental rock par excellence....

Every myth is a memory, formed through complex layers of tellings through time.

21/01/2015

OE: Orpheus and Euridice: For the next half an hour music and poetry weaved in and out of each other in a richly discursive mesh of words and sounds, sometimes obscuring and at other times refining...

Solefald : World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

20/01/2015

To say that they're referencing Dadaism or Situationism wouldn't be a cop out, but it wouldn't tell you anything either, and that is the danger of this record....

Notes on a Dog

19/01/2015

“Get rid of the dog”, she said. “Or get rid of me.”...

Loitered Lens : Kreator

18/01/2015

No frills full-on hardcore metal. Photos of Kreator at the HMV Forum, London...

Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy

17/01/2015

Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny....

The Blackheart Burlesque where suicidal onesies bump, jump and grind to Die Antwoord.

16/01/2015

Suicide Girls : Blackheart Burlesque Live While the majority of the men in the audience quietly beamed, the girls in the audience hooted and hollered....

Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

15/01/2015

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the 'Slap Her!' video send out the wrong message? ...

Nuanced Chuckles with Charlie Hebdo : Free Speech and the Freedom to Complain

14/01/2015

You can make your case and express your view, but riling up the worst elements and trolling isn’t free speech; it’s just being an antisocial jerk....

Dexter Dalwood : ‘London Paintings’

13/01/2015

Whereas his previous work featured imagined interiors and locations acting as memorials to real people, here it is the narratives which are imagined...

Ari Up on The Slits and Chris Spedding [Interview]

12/01/2015

The Clash and the Pistols all became extended family to me. They were all like my brothers....

Loitered Lens : Arch Enemy

11/01/2015

Photos of Arch Enemy at the HMV Forum, London...

Muses, monsters and mannequins : Base Gallery

10/01/2015

Muses, monsters and mannequins, an exhibition that explores what it means to be human....

Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

10/01/2015

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

Four-track orange vinyl-only (Grey Branches)

09/01/2015

I think most of my output has an Industrial feel to it. It’s the first genre of music I really fell in love with as a teenager, and it’s seems I can’t undo that love. ...