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Rob Cottingham: Captain Blue

15/01/2013

Parts of the album sound like a far lighter version of Touchstone, with the dual male-female harmony lead vocals recalling that band's early years when Cottingham handled a greater proportion of the...

Hanging Offence: Arts Canteen

14/01/2013

Arts Canteen is a new UK-based arts venture that explores intercultural artistic relationships between the Middle East and the UK. Trebuchet meets Kelvin De Veth, curator and link-maker....

Loitered Lens: Macy Gray

13/01/2013

A throatful of gravel and a bag of class, Macy Gray rules the pink feather boa onstage at Koko, London...

The Benefits Cap: Four Things We Have Learned

12/01/2013

The Conservatives’ only hope is an improvement in economic growth, and as their actions have cut rather than encouraged consumer spending, this grows ever more unlikely....

You’re Kidding! Portuguese Goat Stew [Recipe]

11/01/2013

Just taste it. A warming hug of a stew, but with all of the ornery attitude, cunning, fastidiousness and bravado of the animal that went into it....

Charlotte Sometimes: Interview

10/01/2013

After four albums, dropped deals, reality television, a rare jaw disease that almost crippled her singing career, and a few lost loves, Charlotte has proven there is no plan B. ...

Scorpionics in Action

09/01/2013

we will construct a personalised HATE CHART for you, which will be based on your answers to our searching questionnaire. From this soul map you will quickly discover the TRAITOR inside who insists on...

Moustaches and Marking: An Academic in Africa

08/01/2013

Saharan dust that turns the air a shade of orange and covers everything (including the inside of your lungs) in a thick layer of grit. And the sunsets are amazing. ...

James Herbert: Ash [Audiobook]

07/01/2013

Suddenly, what should have been a relaxing holiday in an area of stark natural beauty became a torturous experience, as if we were trapped in an overlong horror novel with too much description and...

Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire [Live]

06/01/2013

The world outside could’ve been on fire for all we knew, no one cared though, we were sweating inside. So was the band. So were the walls. Django Django: Shepherds Bush Empire....

On Porn and Prostitution

05/01/2013

The market in education meant a market in women’s bodies. The welfare cuts meant a market in women's bodies. The social work cuts meant an expansion to the market for young men's, women's, and...

Claudio Parentela

04/01/2013

The rigidity of conventional responses to sexual imagery takes a beating in Parentela's collages - their brutal exposition of the flawed humanity beneath and beyond the adland exterior is made...

GOVES: A Crèche for the Lonely and Peculiar

03/01/2013

Sitting somewhere within the well-established tradition of trying to blend electronica and contemporary composition, this is introspective, lower-case music that by now seems a little out of its...

Steve Harley: HMV Forum [Live]

02/01/2013

His songs were moderately touching but not heart stopping. The middle-aged faithful in the all-seated audience appreciated the old songs and were quietly appreciative rather than dancing in the...

Loitered Lens: The Damned, Roundhouse

01/01/2013

Described by the photographer as a highlight of the year, the band saw the return of the best-known red beret-wearer this side of Amelie - Captain Sensible. Which, as the t-shirt hoisted aloft...

One Last List: Staff Picks for 2012

31/12/2012

One final list of 2012's highlights. Best events, albums and gigs of the year, as picked by Trebuchet staffers...

Albums of 2012: Steven Turk’s Choice

30/12/2012

an indie rock record of tremendous quality where the singles are difficult to differentiate from the other tracks comprising this compelling slice of modern tribal psychedelic pop...

A Financial Cliff, a War on Christmas, and Other Dim Tidings

29/12/2012

The conversation, between humankind and catastrophic natural phenomenon, tends to be a bit one-sided....

2012 Round-Up: Carl Byron Batson

28/12/2012

Each year for me is remembered in pictures, the continual broadening of my musical boundaries, and the unfathomable yeses and nos from band PR and management. Example: Shakin’ Stevens says no, Bill...

In Defence of Music

27/12/2012

I am here in defence of music. Of music music---not social music sites, not music apps, not the ability to stream, or the ability to store songs in the cloud. I am here to extol the delicious,...

Locomotion

26/12/2012

The trick of getting a lift is not in persuading someone to stop. It is in being at exactly the right place at the right time such that the person who would give you a lift and is heading your way...

Albums of the Year: Editor’s Picks

25/12/2012

If Lana Del Rey, Flying Lotus or Grimes aren't on any Trebuchet lists this year, it's certainly not because we haven't heard them (indeed, how could we miss them?). And we're not coming over all...

Hanging Offence: Degree Art

24/12/2012

Certain elements of the Art World feel the need to exclude others by making them feel unworthy of enjoying it. Great art will never require smoke and mirrors to achieve its deserved attention....

Loitered Lens: Steve Harley

23/12/2012

Steve Harley plays London's HMV Forum, December 13th 2012. Photos...

Of Grief and Hope

22/12/2012

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...

Albums of the Year: Tim Hall’s Choices

20/12/2012

In many previous years any one of these might have been a strong candidate for my album of the year....

Life of Pi: Review

19/12/2012

Ultimately, Life of Pi as film is a visual complement to Yann Martel's story as opposed to a fresh telling of its own. But what a visual complement it is....

Patrick Wolf: The Sage, Gateshead [Live]

18/12/2012

There is an awe-filled silence throughout, punctuated by increasingly tearful sniffles and admirably contained sobs. ...

Hanging Offence: Debut Contemporary

17/12/2012

Opportunities are immense, they are global and with a little bit more planning and strategizing, a bit more knowledge, information and know-how when it comes down to how to navigate the art system,...

The Beginning of the End (of year lists)

16/12/2012

Trebuchet spurns faffed-about aggregated statistics and seasonally-adjusted ratings systems. Between now and 2013 we'll offer some of our writers' unsullied recollections of albums, events,...

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