Archive - Trebuchet

Dear Media, Where Were You?

09/11/2013

A few days ago on 5th November, hacktivist group Anonymous succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in 477 locations in over 150 countries around the world. ...

Peru Maravilloso [Album]

08/11/2013

If the material is jaunty and lacking in nose-flutes it is because this is a reflection of Peruvian popular music in the 60s/70s, not some anthropological/musicological quest for an imposed...

Kunt and the Gang : Long Island, Rickmansworth

07/11/2013

An evening of total past the knuckle filth for one evening only at Long Island, Rickmansworth....

Zombiezzzzzzzz: Putting the genre to rest

07/11/2013

Hordes of undead roaming the streets are one thing, but stagnant and creatively bankrupt popular culture that never goes away is another. It’s time the genre got shot in the head....

Palms [Album]

06/11/2013

The emphasis on tight contrapuntal instrumentation elevates Palms as one of THE records of 2013....

Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

05/11/2013

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

Burton Morris : Poptastic

04/11/2013

When I paint a coffee cup it is because it represents the coffee shop culture as a whole. Something that is very much a part of my daily life....

A picture of The Presence LDN by Kailas Elmer

Loitered Lens : The Presence LDN

03/11/2013

Do it out in the street and they’d lock you up. Do it up on a stage and everybody gets into it. I guess that’s the weird magic of the thing – going nuts in a public place. The Presence LDN,...

Daring to Have Dreams

02/11/2013

All too many individuals had their dreams kicked out of them at an early age. We must come back to fantasy to keep a grip on reality....

Hastings Storytelling Festival

01/11/2013

Hastings Storytelling Festival celebrates the narrative art, and may just restore your faith in a decent yarn. None of which will be 140 characters or less....

Band Diaries : Vienna Ditto

01/11/2013

It’s a queasy, greasy, sleazy sort of sound that inspired a load of complaints from the upstairs neighbour, but he’s an idiot....

A picture of Daniel Silver's Dig, at Artangel

Drifting through Frieze

31/10/2013

Checking out Dürer, Richard Serra and Richard Silver, Trebuchet's art correspondent finds much to interest her outside of Frieze....

A picture of the Jesu Album Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

Jesu : Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

30/10/2013

Is the success of 'The Great Leveller' enough to elevate this release? More of an EP with filler than an album, so arguably not....

Brighton Dome : earsthetic

29/10/2013

Meshing together visual art, new electronic music and experimental soundscapes, the programme of events aims to celebrate artists who break new ground with their symbiosis of sound and visuals....

A picture of a sunset by Carl Byron Batson

Applied Carpe Diem : Perspectives on Dying.

29/10/2013

How would you live your life, if you knew there wasn’t much life left to live?...

Top Ten Rappers Who Produce

28/10/2013

The rap game is hard to break into. Ask any "lyricist" trying to make it in the music business today - it's much harder to be successful as a rapper than it was 20 years ago. ...

Sean Molloy [Interview]

28/10/2013

The area I live in, in a way, motivates me to work on ways to overcome its inherent ugliness. ...

The Savage Nomads : Reunited Lovers [Interview]

27/10/2013

It is quite shocking how much people take for granted these days; how easy it is record songs by yourself so quickly. Embrace it!...

Tory Scum and Proud

26/10/2013

Tory Scum and Proud: The Show You Won't See on Channel 5...

A Magnificent Haunting [Film]

25/10/2013

Not quite detailed enough to create a true immersion in the blending of fantasy and reality it attempts, but as a piece to lightly charm, A Magnificent Haunting is recommended....

Peter Van Hoesen : Life Performance

25/10/2013

This was a very spirited performance. It has the sound quality of a studio recording but the energy and sudden shifts of a live set...

A picture by Albrecht Durer, Courtesy of the Courtauld Gallery

The Young Dürer : Courtauld Gallery

24/10/2013

It is through drawing the figure, that the Young Dürer became the highly celebrated Dürer. Review...

Bring to Light/Supersonic

23/10/2013

The inaugural Bring To Light event presented by Supersonic Festival shall commence this weekend (25-27 October) at the recently launched, new Library of Birmingham. ...

The Presence LDN : Interview

23/10/2013

I won’t use a computer to make music ever again. Those things lead to a shiny but soulless place in the heart....

A picture of Imperial Teen by Kailas Elmer

We’re masochists (Imperial Teen)

22/10/2013

'We're not in a gay band, we're just in a band. On the other hand we're not NOT in a gay band, I just think 'who cares?'' Imperial Teen interview....

Lux Lives – Long Live Lux Interior

21/10/2013

We raise a large glass in honour of Lux coming into this world and into our lives. Long live Lux Interior. One very important message from the scriptures of Interior is to love life, live with a...