Archive - Trebuchet

Tate Modern: William Klein/Daido Moriyama

02/11/2012

I am obviously a little biased toward William Klein and there are those who will no doubt love the Moriyama section of this exhibition; it is after all an impressive and diverse display of...

House of Burlesque: Interview

01/11/2012

'Burlesque provides a vital platform for women to be in control of the portrayal of their own bodies and minds.' Interview...

Panic Room: On Songwriting

01/11/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”S/dropcapwansea’s Panic Room are one of British rock’s best-kept secrets. Over the past few years they’ve built up a loyal...

Trouble at t’Mill: Radio 2 Axe Mike Harding

31/10/2012

Folk. An English lower middle-class museum music. Ouch....

A Spear of Hope

31/10/2012

Giving young people a ‘vision of the possible’ under such bleak circumstances may well seem impossible, but there are helping hands out there and one such pair of hands is an organisation called...

Col. Jon’s Cherokee Corn Pone

30/10/2012

It’s another favourite snack in these parts and something that I like to have the little woman cook up for me whilst I hang up the goat on Hallowe’en. Up until now this has been a very closely...

Hanging Offence: Little Black Gallery

30/10/2012

'The UK is far behind the USA and France in the photography market and needs to catch up.' ...

The Vudu Experiment

29/10/2012

Words have power whether intended or not. It is no coincidence that a venture named Sub Prime was the tipping point for the onset of this particular disaster....

Loitered Lens: Rival Sons, Electric Ballroom

28/10/2012

Rival Sons, live at Camden's Electric Ballroom, photographs. No wrongness....

Empire’s Halloween Pt 1

27/10/2012

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal....

Forgotten Tomb: …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

26/10/2012

'if it’s a pastiche, it’s a well-written, executed, and compelling pastiche that could almost be mainstream-friendly, were it not for the grim chords and screams'...

Col. Jon’s Pumpkin Soup

25/10/2012

Hallowe’en is my favourite time of year and along with the customary trick or treating, cow tipping and playing with my nuts at the cemetery, I always like to make a batch of Great Great Grandma...

Hanging Offence: Wapping Project Bankside

25/10/2012

It is not an annex of The Wapping Project, it is a separate entity informed by all of the wild things I have done over the years at The Wapping Project....

Doro Pesch: Interview

24/10/2012

I have never been degraded or considered the second sex as a woman. I was always supported and respected because I had the chance to work with the best people. And good people, they know better!'...

JKutchma: Interview

24/10/2012

He held himself like a man of another era. Like he had a shed full of tools and knew how to use them....

Rival Sons: Electric Ballroom

23/10/2012

It’s not too difficult to understand the appeal of Rival Sons. They do classic rock extremely well. Jay Buchanan is without doubt a charismatic lead vocalist who, despite his relatively small...

Hanging Offence: Heartbeat Gallery

23/10/2012

A successful and well-established commercial space that is known for it’s unpretentious, welcoming environment that evokes familiarity within visitors and erases any notions of elitism commonly...

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

Miliband at the TUC: What He Really Wanted to Say

22/10/2012

I have said whoever was in government now there would still need to be some cuts, which means you will spot little or no difference,. But on the upside, Polly Toynbee will be happy....

Various Artists: Stellate 3 (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

22/10/2012

The Stellate series can be recommended not just as a collectors' wet dream or a dealers' safe bet but as an experimental series producing consistently interesting music that might not otherwise have...

Loitered Lens: Death Letters

21/10/2012

On support duty for Anneke Van Giersbergen at the Borderline and a stint opening for Enter Shikari, Death Letters are on a trajectory to shuck off bridesmaid's syndrome. ...

Twelfth Night: Live and Let Live

20/10/2012

Twelfth Night remain one of the formative bands of the early 80s neo-prog scene, and this new edition of what many consider their definitive album represents a good starting point to discover their...

Cedric de Smedt: Illustrator

19/10/2012

Cédric De Smedt illustrates torment and despair without flinching....

Spinning the crowd: Adamski, 3 / 4 and Neo Waltz.

19/10/2012

"indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage." ...

Mitra Tabrizian: Another Country

18/10/2012

Characters and places that seem to be taken from a parallel universe; an alien world full of familiar objects and people. Only, those people seem strangely detached and isolated, frozen in artificial...

Bruce Cockburn: Bush Hall

17/10/2012

Back in Bush Hall, Cockburn preceded one song by saying, “the way to avoid dashed expectations is not to have any.” It was however clear that expectations were high as he took the stage...

Beware of Mr Baker

17/10/2012

SEE Ginger whipping up an afro storm with Fela Ransom Kuti in Lagos. SEE highlights from both of Cream’s memorable Albert Hall performances. SEE Ginger, stoned out of his mind, falling off his...

Chris Isaak: Hammersmith Apollo

16/10/2012

Deliver us from surly musicians in jeans and baseball boots. Let us be blinded by mirrored suits and touched inappropriately by covers of seemingly untouchable songs. Chris Isaak Live...