Archive - Trebuchet

Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

02/03/2013

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

Nhoah : Tangowerk

28/02/2013

Nhoah's reappraisal of Tango is painted in bold strokes, dappling the Argentianian rhythms and Iberian histrionics with electronica and sequenced beats, rather than vice versa....

Free Song : Anna Lena

27/02/2013

Anna Lena & the Orchids will release her self-titled, debut EP on March 21st 2013....

Freedom Toast : Southern Style

27/02/2013

I know you ladies like it thick ...

Democracy and Dubai Shopping Trips ; An Academic in Africa

26/02/2013

I would suggest that the fear of violent reprisal, or the knowledge that casting your vote made no difference because the seat had already been bought would lead some to conclude that they were not...

Meg Cranston & John Baldessari [Interview]

25/02/2013

'Instead of Catholicism or religion, now we are programmed by the corporations' . Artists Meg Cranston and John Baldessari talk to Trebuchet's own artist in residence - Nicola Anthony...

Loitered Lens : Roy Lichtenstein

24/02/2013

Arty photos of artworks by an artist making art about art....

London Afrobeat Collective : Floradita [Gig]

23/02/2013

All of the musicians are superb, they’re tight as hell, and they write and play great songs. And with the number of baritone sax solos on offer, I leave a very happy man. ...

Mono/Poly European Tour 2013

22/02/2013

London is treated to a rare UK performance by Psych-Soul visionary Mono/Poly 2013...

Vulgaari : Vulgaari

22/02/2013

Vulgaari by Vulgaari is such a mind numbing record that it should be the centrepiece in a church to mental restraint. - An Everyman Review of Good Ole Metal...

Roy Lichtenstein : A Retrospective

21/02/2013

Tate Modern offers a complete picture of Lichtenstein and his development as an artist, including pieces from late 1950s right up to the mid 1990s....

Fire in the Blood [Film]

20/02/2013

A healthcare industry that is allowed to continue monopolising the world will see many more needless deaths, all in the name of indifference and bottom dollar...

Black Music: What’s Going On?

19/02/2013

To make a masterpiece you need raw talent, terrific songs, musicians who can create soulful grooves and producers who experiment . SWP asks of Black Music : Where are they?...

Miranda Donovan : Walls

18/02/2013

Miranda Donovan is more than a standard graffiti artist - she constructs the walls upon which she paints. Her third exhibition at Lazarides opens in March...

Hanging Offence : James Hyman Gallery

18/02/2013

Controversy assumes that what artists are producing really matters. Otherwise, all it is is marketing or publicity....

Loitered Lens : Neurotic Mass Movement

17/02/2013

Photographer Carl Batson captures Neurotic Mass Movement onstage....

The Great Dismal

16/02/2013

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

Super Mario Brothers, Reptilian Rape and the Hollow Earth Theory

15/02/2013

The ideology of imperialism runs deep in Bowser. He is also, at least, a kidnapper, but more probably a pedophile. ...

The Best Form of Defence : Most Offensive Songs

14/02/2013

In a twisted celebration of the offensively smug Valentine's Day message, Trebuchet rounded up some contributors for an overview of musical offensiveness....

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Her Majesty’s Theatre

13/02/2013

Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Performing Push the Sky Away. Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. Feb 10th 2013...

Brythonic Gyrations

13/02/2013

I see Breton dances as a kind of bhajan. They are about losing yourself to something greater. We forget the Dionysian at our peril....

Hanging Offence : Lahd Gallery

12/02/2013

I got involved with the art world in the beginning just so that I could give the women artists from the Gulf, who were under-represented at the time, a chance to show their works and to have a bigger...

The Sensual Economist

11/02/2013

For no outwardly discernible reason, the periodical had decided to give the soft-porn star a full page obituary (with picture)....

Blue Coupe : Live

10/02/2013

The new material stands up well alongside the old, and marked them out as something far more than a mere nostalgia act, rather a band who still have something to say....

Anger, Passion, and Destiny in the USA

09/02/2013

There has been a deadly legacy wrought by social structures that inflict shame and thus sow seeds of inarticulate rage. ...

Gael Garcia Bernal in No [Film]

08/02/2013

No is a deeply involving experience, and in no small part due to Bernal's performance....

Caroline Jane Harris : Interview

07/02/2013

I connect with the notions of the skilled hand, patience and emphasis on detail present in traditional Chinese arts. ...

Dubstep Allstars Vol. 10 – Plastician

06/02/2013

Trying to unite the disparate tendencies into a compilation is already ambitious but trying to unite them into a continuous mix could seem like asking for trouble. Plastician produces some...