Archive - Trebuchet

The Drifters vocal master class

25/09/2015

Scoring a top 20 album in 2015, vocal band The Drifters are allowing UK singers a chance to learn the secrets that have kept them in demand for over half a century....

Can You Tell Your Toes Apart? Try this Toe Test

25/09/2015

Research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart...

Guilt, loss and blame in smalltown America (Little Accidents)

25/09/2015

A bleak smalltown film, centred around a tragic mining accident...

I didn’t forget your Birthday, I just have Delayed Remembering

24/09/2015

Kids can remember tomorrow what they forgot today ...

Love being dirty. Loving sounding dirty (Mother’s Cake)

24/09/2015

Austria's hardest rockers talk to Trebuchet after their clamorous European support slot with Limp Bizkit...

Touching Down at the 100 Club (Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys)

23/09/2015

Bringing twenty-five years of swinging Western tunes to the UK, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys...

TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)

23/09/2015

Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint....

Beans, Beans, They’re Good for the Heart (and belly)

22/09/2015

Beef vs. bean meals: Both provide similar feeling of fullness ...

Hitting the Key, or Falling Flat? (Operation: Mindcrime)

22/09/2015

Geoff Tate's voice, once a magnificent lead instrument, is a shadow of what it once was. ...

SuperBrand to SuperFan

21/09/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphe entertainment industry is a sprawling animal of celebrity, sober lust and enthusiastic deceit. ***rescheduled to oct 7th***...

Rooting for You: Beetroot Shots for Brains and Brawn

21/09/2015

Drinking high nitrate beetroot juice improves both sprint performance and decision-making during prolonged intermittent exercise such as rugby and football...

Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn

21/09/2015

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops....

Phleghm-ily Affair. How Smokers breed Smokers

20/09/2015

If mum or dad is a smoker, their teenager is more likely to be a smoker too. Report...

Great Band, Shame About the Crowd (The Heartless Bastards)

20/09/2015

Interview and review of The Heartless Bastards. The Borderline, London. 1st September 2015 ...

Up Yours? Blame Saint Peter for the Two Fingered Salute

19/09/2015

Ulnar nerve damage caused original benediction sign ...

Sex, Slashing and Suffrage: The Rokeby Venus (Diego Velasquez)

19/09/2015

Mary Richardson's ‘vandalism’ of the Rokeby Venus has become part of the story this painting tells, not something which detracts from its beauty. ...

How to Attract the Opposite Sex, a Scientific Approach

18/09/2015

Chapman University publishes research on attractiveness and mating ...

Deep thrills: Amenra & High on Fire (Damnation 2015)

18/09/2015

Damnation festival: 7th November 2015. Leeds University Union. ...

Should We Have Government Controls on Salted Junk Food?

17/09/2015

Call for government to curb the production and sale of cheap salty junk food ...

Renaissance Hit or Folk Flop? All Our Yesterdays (Blackmore’s Night)

17/09/2015

About as much in common with actual renaissance music as Dungeons and Dragons has with medieval history...

Dither, and the Cat Dies. Quantum Probability and Irrational Decisions

16/09/2015

You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic ...

I want to party hard, but you won’t let me (Best Friends. Sebright Arms)

16/09/2015

Where is the quirky charming genius of 'Surf Bitches', 'Nosebleeds', 'Happy Anniversary'? I want to party hard tonight but you won’t let me. Best friends...