Archive - Trebuchet

Black History Month : Interview

17/10/2013

There is a tension in Black history that makes it all the more interesting.That is to say, it highlights the many struggles and centrality of people of African descent in making the modern world....

Drugstore : The Best of Drugstore

16/10/2013

Maybe it's musical Marmite, inspiring only deep devotion or outright contempt. Drugstore are not static enough to pin a genre upon....

London Film Festival : Computer Chess

15/10/2013

A film that will likely appeal to only the film aficionado. But for that aficionado it is a quietly hilarious little gem....

Obelyskkh : Hymn to Pan

15/10/2013

What we have here is a doom sound with strong prog and alt rock influences. Also, fucking squirrels. ...

Liu Xiaodong at Lisson Gallery

14/10/2013

There is a modesty and complexity in the self-aware theatricality of his approach that eschews any defined categories or cultural heritage...

A picture of London Tattoo Convention by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : London Tattoo Convention

13/10/2013

Loitered Lens reports from London Tattoo Convention...

These Hidden Hands [Album]

12/10/2013

Here the nostalgia isn't simplistically or naively wistful, but darker and tenser....

Thatcher's funeral invite by Carl Byron Batson

Thatcher: I’m Glad She’s Dead

12/10/2013

On Thatcher's birthday weekend, we look back on her demise...

London Tattoo Convention

11/10/2013

From the plain-skinned first-timers curious to dip a toe in the ink to those who embrace tattoos as an integral part of their life, there is much here to catch the imagination and stimulate the...

Portraits of American Bikers [Interview]

11/10/2013

It's about people keeping their word, helping one another when in need and always showing a certain amount of respect for individualism, without judgment....

A picture of The Temperance Movement by Tim Hall

The Temperance Movement [Live]

10/10/2013

'Understated bluesy soloing rather than pyrotechnic shredding'. Trebuchet catches The Temperance Movement live....

The Presence, Savage Nomads, Jon Byrne [Free]

10/10/2013

The Presence, about whom Trebuchet has been whispering for some months now, launch themselves on London’s discerning publique....

Druids, Magic Mushrooms and Cultural Memory

10/10/2013

Iron Age Druids might have known about and used magic mushrooms even if there's no way of testing it....

The Beat Instrumental

09/10/2013

Without sung text the listener was invited to create an entire narrative based on only the title and the music itself. You had to do a little (imaginative) work. ...

London Film Festival : Teenage

08/10/2013

The teenager is a creature whose needs and wants are the same, no matter the era...

Anna Calvi : One Breath

07/10/2013

As with all material on this sublime record, Calvi thrashes her inspirations into unique statements....

Hanging Offence : Vitrine, Bermondsey Street

07/10/2013

There is nothing better than entering an artist’s studio and just knowing that by collaborating with this person something amazing can be created...

Oceano : Incisions

06/10/2013

The first thing that is immediately noticeable about Incisions is the sound design. From the first discordant riff and throat-wrenching roar of opening track ‘Eternal Wasteland’, it’s proven a...

A picture of Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons by Carl Byron Batson

Loitered Lens : Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons

06/10/2013

Puss Johnson cut a dated dash in red boots, tight leopard print attire, high lacquered hair and leopard face paint. You know, like you have at kids parties....

The Criminalisation of Unemployed People

05/10/2013

As Osborne announces compulsory community work, are the long-term unemployed being treated as criminals?...

Seamus Heaney Tribute : London Irish Centre

04/10/2013

The Irish community in London gathers to celebrate the life and work of the great man....

Pierre Deutschmann : Betroit

04/10/2013

It would have been all too easy to attempt this kind of fusion cynically or unimaginatively, but Berliner Pierre Deutschmann manouevres around these traps with great skill....

There Has Possibly Been An Incident [Theatre]

03/10/2013

It's slightly pretentious. And it will frustrate you. But mostly with how close to brilliant it gets....

Anne Pigalle Presents Madame Sex

02/10/2013

Anne Pigalle, the last Chanteuse, returns to old Soho with a series of live performances....

Street Studio Woodstock © Alexia Webster

Art of Peace : Artraker Award Winners

02/10/2013

In conflict, art and creativity can counter some of the media’s shortcomings in communicating the horrors of war and oppression, and remind us of the need to turn our attention, instead, to peace....

A picture from GV Art Generation exhibition

Generation : GV Art

01/10/2013

'Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing'. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London's GV Art gallery....

NHS Gagging Order Fight Intensifies

30/09/2013

An incredible 8,222 38 Degrees members, from all across the UK, have donated to help turn up the heat on key MPs about the gagging law. The campaigners are near their target but they need your help....