November 2016 - Trebuchet

Dispatches from The Great Gathering (Killing Joke)

30/11/2016

More a private party than a gig. At Killing Joke's Great Gathering, everyone knew the words....

Records from the Road. BeLive (Rebecca Downes)

29/11/2016

No filler. Rebecca Downes only has a couple of albums, but this live set sounds like a Greatest Hits...

Loitered Lens: Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds (Nambucca)

27/11/2016

A look back at Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds charming the devoted at London's Nambucca...

Lights From the Sky (Touchstone)

26/11/2016

Recognisably Touchstone, but with a fresh take, Lights from the Sky introduces a new direction for the UK prog stalwarts...

Falling Backwards Through Jack Daniels (Soil, O2 Academy)

25/11/2016

Soil, Sons of Texas and Liberty Lies blast the plaster off the walls at Islington's O2 Academy...

Fed Up With Fake News? So Stop Making It.

24/11/2016

Fake News sites cause very real damage, but how do you define 'trustworthy'?...

Death (and Rebirth) Metal: Enemy of Duality (Rudra)

23/11/2016

Avoiding kitsch and staying extreme, Rudra integrate south Asian influences into metal mayhem...

Make Yours a Melodic Death: Atoma (Dark Tranquility)

22/11/2016

Screams, shouts and growls. Dark Tranquility get expressive on Atoma...

Loitered Lens: Soweto Kinch

20/11/2016

Evocative imagery from the launch of Soweto Kinch's Nonagram album at the Camden Roundhouse...

Inside the White (Supremacy) House: Steve Bannon as Chief of Staff

19/11/2016

The White House just became whiter with Donald Trump's appointment of Steve Bannon as Chief of Staff....

All of our blood was confiscated at customs: Ice Nine Kills (Interview)

18/11/2016

Boston metalcore horror freaks Ice Nine Kills explain everything...

Looking for Answers. Finding them. Solas (The Answer)

17/11/2016

New approaches from The Answer result in a fresh and fascinating hard rock album...

Between Noise and Silence: A Retrospective (Steven M. Miller)

16/11/2016

A master of creating sonic tableaux as resonant as a painter's colours and forms ...

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

15/11/2016

Dead Light, makers of 2016's intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album....

Loitered Lens: Fatherson

13/11/2016

Turning sad faces into happy clappers - Fatherson pep up the Forum...

We Name This Album Nonagram (Soweto Kinch, Roundhouse)

12/11/2016

Entrancing sonic patterns and iconic imagery: Soweto Kinch's album launch at the Roundhouse...

Crackling Fuzz and Feelgood Soul: Blues Pills and Kadaver at Koko

12/11/2016

Pop, blues, groove. Camden's Koko samples all three with Kadaver and Blues Pills. ...

Hard Core, Waffle Soles: Ice Nine Kills at Satan’s Hollow

11/11/2016

An overdue UK debut for post-hardcore icons Ice Nine Kills at Satan's Hollow...

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

Mirroring the Zeitgeist with Doom, Death and Gothic Gloom

10/11/2016

Convenience death metal, giant wicker cocks. If politics has gone weird, why shouldn't music? Review of Gatecreeper and Abysmal Grief albums...

I ballroom danced in Norwich the other night: King Parrot (Interview)

09/11/2016

Extreme metal never smelled so bad. King Parrot's Matthew Young on dreams, dancing and digestion....

The Straight, White Canon, and How to Evade It (Interview with Collective Creativity)

08/11/2016

Something Human curator Annie Jael Kwan talks to Collective Creativity members...

Balloons, A Bob, Beth Orton (live at Kentish Town Forum)

07/11/2016

Sparkly and statuesque, Beth Orton ushers a folktronic breeze through the Forum...

Swedish Heavy Metal Monday Mashup

07/11/2016

HammerFall and Civil War prove there's more sludgy grind to Sweden than Ikea's meatballs...

Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

06/11/2016

Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens...

Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

Somewhere to Go, and a Way to Get Back: Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska

04/11/2016

Artists Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska discuss their current work at Krisis, Nottingham...

Typical Metal Gig, But Better. (Battle of the Bays, Manchester)

03/11/2016

Warm beer, loud metal. Manchester heats up for the Battle of the Bays...

A Refined and Technical Stitch Up: Autopsy (Coroner)

03/11/2016

Reanimating the corpse of a tech metal troupe who should have been HUGE...

Peacocks Wandered Aimlessly: Pagan Science (The Well)

02/11/2016

Cosmic folk to occult choir - bringing the rock ain't always easy, but where there's The Well, there's a way...

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