April 2018 - Trebuchet

Compound The Heaviness – Ingested

30/04/2018

Manchester's kings of Slam-infused Death Metal Ingested take a nice little day trip over to Liverpool. Naturally, Trebuchet followed suit....

Apply Yourself & Don’t Bullshit – Hollywood Undead (Interview)

30/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;”T/dropcaphe large padded doors were closed tight. Tthere was a serene kind of peace and the faint smell of Brut in the air-conditioned...

Drink up and Have Another. Fags all Round

28/04/2018

Dadaists on a visit to the outbuildings of St Julien on 14th April 1921 A number of countries have passed laws which require cigarette manufacturers to show ‘denormalising’ images on their...

Beat Zoderer’s Art Concret at Semiose, Paris

28/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapwiss concrete artist, Beat Zoderer shows his work ‘Dans quel Mesure,’ at Semiose, Paris. Being Swiss gives this younger...

Quality is King: Building a New Clothing Line

27/04/2018

Architect turned fashion designer Lee Johnson is setting up his own brand of clothing 'Old Bull Lee'...

Cult, It’s Joan Pope

27/04/2018

Joan Pope uses her body to promote her religion and calls it art, you decide....

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

25/04/2018

That Good Night is a slightly disappointing swansong for the late John Hurt, nevertheless the actor shines in this moral quandary....

How Do Marine Mammals Avoid The Bends?

25/04/2018

A new study offers a hypothesis of how marine mammals generally avoid getting the bends and how they can succumb under stressful conditions....

Are The Working Class Kept Away From The Arts?

24/04/2018

Have you ever felt that your less then welcome in the creative industry? Check your accent!...

Hey Buddy! Heads Up – Cancer Bats

23/04/2018

Canadian Southern-fried Hardcore fiends Cancer Bats drop an indie-released album on our heads with nary a warning...

Wrecked The Grading Curve – Home Wrecked

23/04/2018

Sheffield Pop Punkers Home Wrecked tackle the tricky sophomore release with a fresh, mature approach in ‘Try What You Want, Just Make Sure It Works’....

Luton Upcoming Art Location

20/04/2018

Luton could be the place you keep your creative ambitions alive and bring them to fruition....

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapoil! said the duchess, and all the courtiers reached. Soil. The journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (volume 63, 2017, issue 5) has...

DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

Feminism and the Virgin Whore: Antiporno

18/04/2018

Fiercely lurid and often surreal, Sion Sono's tribute to Japan's Roman Porno is a whirlwind trip into sexual dichotomy....

Five Senses Cinema to Open in London West End

18/04/2018

A state-of-the-art cinema that engages all five senses will bring the onscreen action to life for Londoners this week....

Melted on my Cortex – Boss Keloid

16/04/2018

Slow and heavy Wiganers Boss Keloid once again repudiate expectations with new full-length sonic deluge 'Melted On The Inch'...

The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

12/04/2018

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

Beyond Factual Ecology: Object Oriented Ontology

12/04/2018

Hyper-objects, which are meta-objects that behave as manifest concepts. These ideas may help us to deal with the pressing issues of our time!...

Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

Hot News: The ‘Like Illegal Drugs’ Effects of Chilli Peppers

11/04/2018

Man develops severe 'thunderclap' headaches after eating world's hottest chili pepper ...

No space for the unexpected – XOR Gate

11/04/2018

Gerald Donald's XOR Gate lands a glimpse into his vision of a machinic techno-future with new release 'Conic Sections'...

The More Uncommon Slurs and Smears of Napalm Death

11/04/2018

Outtakes and rarities offer a genetic glimpse into the Napalm Death machine...

Diary of a Pop Punk kid – the team behind Pop Punk Pile Up 2018

09/04/2018

Upstart young festival Pop Punk Pile Up take us through what their debut year has in store for the UK's Alternative scene....

Big Eyes, Emojis, and the Sickly, Sweet Smell of Sentimentality

05/04/2018

NOTHING, is as gut-wrenchingly, vomit-inducing, flu-shivery and ‘give-me-a-wrecking-drink-of-anything-strong-enough-to-get-me-drunk-in-one-big-slug,’ intolerable – as a kitten-video...

The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

04/04/2018

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....