June 2016 - Trebuchet

Renew Your Metalcore Memories (Dead Label)

29/06/2016

Review of Dead Label's metalcore album Throne of Bones...

Loitered Lens: The Hillbilly Moon Explosion

28/06/2016

Photos of The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Borderline, London, June 2016...

Post-Sanders Disillusionment? Not if You Know Your Democrat History

25/06/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is speculation that Bernie’s Big Misadventure in the sucker-fleecing, traveling carnival of the Democratic Party Primary...

Summoning Unnerving Prophecy at the Kentish Town Forum (Fields of the Nephilim)

24/06/2016

The goth's goths - Fields of the Nephilim, enchant the congregation at the Kentish Town Forum...

An Iconography Of Chance (99 Photographs Of The Evanescent South)

23/06/2016

Tav Falco presents a lifetime's worth of photography from a colourful and cool past and present...

Flights of Fancy, Theories of Flight (Fates Warning)

22/06/2016

At times technical, at others self-indulgent, Theories of Flight is indeed progressive metal. Review...

Apres Release Avant-Hard (Swans and SikTh)

21/06/2016

Unheralded gems from the underworld of avant-garde rock that you should have heard already...

The Lash of Lord Edmonds: Imagining the Brexit Aftermath

20/06/2016

Gentle and lighthearted musings on the Apocalyptic Gloom which might follow Brexit...

Loitered Lens: Roisin Murphy

19/06/2016

Displaying live after Moloko, and a performance before New Order, photos of Roisin Murphy at the Royal Albert Hall...

Machismo and Violence – The Heavy Doors of Another Closet

18/06/2016

Trump calling Obama a closeted Muslim misses the point. Obama's presidency uses Muslims as cannon fodder ...

Excessive betting adverts and collaborations: the bane of sports?

16/06/2016

Is the gambling industry killing the sports it sponsors?...

Loitered Lens: The BibleCode Sundays

16/06/2016

London Irish folk rockers set the stage a-jigging at the O2 Indigo. Photos...

Subverting the Domestic: The 2:1 show at Safehouse 2

15/06/2016

A shattered yet still comforting vision of domesticity conveys the reality of contemporary urban life. Review...

Beyond the Big Four. Unheralded but Solid Thrash (Flotsam & Jestsam)

14/06/2016

Will it float, or should we jettison it? Flotsam & Jetsam dish up the thrash....

Who’s Filthy Now? Public Image Limited, O2 Indigo

13/06/2016

Still furious, Public Image Limited withstand the test of time. Review...

Loitered Lens: Pentatonix

12/06/2016

Photos from the Pentatonix show at Brixton Academy...

For the Love of Carmine (Lena Moross)

11/06/2016

With offhand virtuosity, painter Lena Moross captures her intriguing muse. Preview...

In My Solitude at Union Chapel (Branford Marsalis)

10/06/2016

Innovative and improvisational, Branford Marsalis plays In My Solitude at London's Union Chapel...

Apple Pie A Capella (Pentatonix)

09/06/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphe thought of Brixton Academy being filled to the rafters with tearful teenagers on the verge of hysteria is not out of the...

A Most Dramatic of Comas: The Theater Equation (Ayreon)

09/06/2016

Ayreon's staging of The Human Equation is anything but comatose...

And then there was just Madame Hillary. Hold the Champagne.

08/06/2016

Hillary Clinton may have taken the Democratic nomination, but that leaves little to celebrate...

Jazz Powerhouse? It’s all (kinda) in the name (Jasmine Power)

07/06/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”S/dropcapomething old, something new, something borrowed, something blue… or so the saying goes. I realise this seems somewhat out of...