Archive - Trebuchet

Skirmish of Ideas?

15/12/2012

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

And don't kites just lend themselves to metaphor? They punctuate the sky, return it to a human scale. They hug the wind. Our minds can't help but follow them up into the empyrean; watching them, we...

Ultraista: Cable Club [live]

13/12/2012

Trouble is, I’d rather see RADIOHEAD instead. And I don’t even like Radiohead....

Touched by Sir Jimmy

12/12/2012

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

Splashh, Wolf Alice, Big Deal: 100 Club [Live]

12/12/2012

With the tight jeans and pointed boots bands stagnating and the now middle-aged grebo bands reforming, East London hairdressers may hit hard times as the kids start growing out those crew cuts into...

The Punk Syndrome/Kovasikajuttu [Film]

11/12/2012

The reason this whole thing works is that it becomes, pretty quickly, a story about actual people, and not just ciphers for what is wrong with them, or the way that society treats them....

Hanging Offence: Breese Little

10/12/2012

We work on the premise that the gallery should always operate with increasing momentum, growing in step with the careers and aims of the artists we work with...

Loitered Lens: Splashh

09/12/2012

Carl Byron Batson photographs Splashh at the 100 Club, London...

A Case For Culture

08/12/2012

The arts can engage everyone. Most of all, surely, we want those who may not otherwise be able to join in, to find the world of art available and open to them - whether for simple enjoyment or for...

Vhils: Devoid

07/12/2012

Regardless of any predisposition against doors, Vhils latest exhibition is deep, rich and amazingly crafted. ...

Shoot! Existential Photography

06/12/2012

An exhibition tracing the history of a fascinating fairground sideshow that sprung up following World War 1: the photographic shooting gallery. ...

Fanga & Maalem Abdullah Guinea: Fangnawa Experience

06/12/2012

…. by the third track, the constituent elements meld into a sound that is properly danceable, and moreover, distinctive. Fangnawa Experience by Fanga & Maalem Abdullah ...

Hoxton (Alco) Hall

05/12/2012

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....

Childhood Break Through

04/12/2012

Last month’s inclusion in the popular music press and a very favourable review in The Guardian have finally put these guys on the radar and are all good indications that Childhood may now be...

Are Social Media Values Human Values?

04/12/2012

None of the values promoted by a social-media-dominated world are helpful with depth-oriented, long-term thinking...

David Cronenberg’s Wife: Don’t Wait to be Hunted to Hide

03/12/2012

Challenging and chillingly memorable rather than enjoyable; giving a glimpse into the lives of people we either pretend don’t exist or hysterically vilify. It personalises the men who exist in the...

Tomahawk! Patton and Co release new Video: Stone Letter

03/12/2012

Tomahawk's video for "Stone Letter" the first single from their forthcoming album Oddfellows, is here! ...

Hanging Offence: TJ Boulting Gallery

03/12/2012

Controversial ideas are often the more important and interesting ones. But no, controversy is a byproduct, not the end point. ...

Loitered Lens: The Hickey Underworld

02/12/2012

The Hickey Underworld performed a well-articulated set with some solid beats, great guitar work and a certainty in the vocal that was no doubt helped by the newly trimmed beard....

After the Flood

01/12/2012

In the presence of death and in the aftermath of great storms, we apprehend how vainly we cling to the illusion of certainty and permanence. ...

Creeping Ivies: Stay Wild

30/11/2012

Becca has a strong, more booming voice than the punk singers, at times reminiscent of PJ Harvey or Empress of Fur. Perhaps a bit of gravel or drawl would have added to the tone, but generally it was...

Leviathan: Matadero Theatre, Madrid

30/11/2012

without the progression of a story, or identification with a protagonist, the sequence of juxtaposed imagery and sound can alienate an audience and reduce the performance to circus turns...

The Zolas: Ancient Mars

29/11/2012

Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It's funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect...

Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

28/11/2012

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

Sigha: Living with Ghosts

27/11/2012

'Keeping the toxic new-age cliches at bay entails a danger of entirely immersing yourself in self-conscious gloom', Sigha manages to avoid the pitfalls....

Singapore’s Affordable Art

26/11/2012

I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair....

Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

25/11/2012

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

Zionist Heckles Answered

24/11/2012

Why should the neighbors of the Zionist state be forced to live on their knees and give perpetual penitence because of the crimes of the anti-Semites of Europe? ...

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]

22/11/2012

The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a...

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