Archive - Trebuchet

Trace Elements: Romance

06/03/2012

When writing fictional characters, a basic rule is females say it, males show it. In the real world this reveals itself most dramatically when men and woman date, then stop. He’ll often just...

On Regaining a Spirit of Defiance: Part One

05/03/2012

'I'm Worried Now but I Won't Be Worried Long' The course of action taken by the present day U.S. political class in addressing the era's rising tide of economic hardship and...

Loitered Lens: Various Cruelties [PICS]

04/03/2012

Various Cruelties at the 100 Club. Photos of a sold-out gig...

An Academic in Africa: Plagiarism

03/03/2012

Second week of term, and we start to acclimatise ourselves to having all of these damn students around. Although the first intake (ie. the 17 that have already done one term) have been pissing...

Emma Sywyj, Photographer: Interview

02/03/2012

Photographer Emma Sywyj has a wry approach to her craft. Sean Keenan interviews Emma Sywyj about her photography and travelling in the UK. ...

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: Review

01/03/2012

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: A Sad Wandering Dreamer Trapped In Contemporary Memory Architectures Sometimes techno titles are totally irrelevant to the sounds and some producers even prefer simply to...

Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

29/02/2012

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

Trace Elements: Trying it on

28/02/2012

Picture a clothes shop: A customer walks in, eyes a garment, tries it on, says they love it, tells the assistant they’ll definitely be back tomorrow to buy. They’re never seen again....

Evy Jane: Sayso and Ohso (+Remixes)

27/02/2012

I know the sexualisation of R&B has been overdone to a point where it has become sexually gratifying, big arses and jiggly tits sitting and dancing on Hummers, where the amount of fuel one can...

I ask you this, if the defining aspects of our existence were constructed of concrete, would not the world be made of the material of a prison? Moreover, is this not the building material and psychic...

Forecast: Cloudy

24/02/2012

A little while back, the results of a survey commissioned by the subscription online music store eMusic were released, and they were notable. The survey targeted people who buy music online. Among...

Karnataka, Live: Bristol

23/02/2012

The celtic progressive rock band Karnataka have had something of a turbulent history. They established a growing reputation in the early 00s with the albums The Storm and Delicate Flame of Desire,...

Tate Modern: Yayoi Kusama

22/02/2012

A review of Yayoi Kusama 2011 Tate show by UK artist Nicola Anthony...

Trace Elements: Can I Have A Word?

21/02/2012

Several months back at an advertising agency I won’t mention (coughs Billington Cartmell) I was pitching potential straplines for a Panasonic camera campaign. Its artwork featured a suited City...

Proxima: Formal Junction/Grunge

20/02/2012

Is Proxima the real product of the lost generation of western European youth? The western Europe that, having drank 10 cans of Tennants Super, thinking it can take on the developing world as a fourth...

Loitered Lens: Saxon [Pics]

19/02/2012

One of the leading bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Saxon bring the denim and leather good-times once again! Wikipedia, is a consensual tool where people build myths, there are...

A Journey To The End Of Empire: Pt. 1

18/02/2012

It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black "When the poet stands at nadir the world must indeed be upside-down. If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself,...

Decapitation: An Academic in Africa

16/02/2012

I’d like to share a story with you. It comes from an online newspaper here. Suspected ritualists on Tuesday in Lagos beheaded an unidentified man and chopped off his manhood. Residents of...

LS Lowry at Nottingham Lakeside

15/02/2012

Shooting the White Elephant Like an understanding that only those of us affected would realise (viz., the changing tide and motion, moving beyond motive and motivation, holding kindness and...

Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

14/02/2012

The Legendary Shack Shakers never miss and have wowed the hardy fools of the hip underground over the course of six energetic punk blues albums. Inteview with JD Wilkes...

Dadub: Way to Moksha EP

13/02/2012

Dadub is a duo of Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, one of whose inspirations is Lee Scratch Perry. This dub sensibility helps them sculpt impressive new forms from techno and electronica...

Speech Debelle: Freedom of Speech

12/02/2012

Calling upon Kwes to produce, Big Dada apply a sonic approach to Speech Debelle's return album that, even this early in the producer's career, tends towards formulaic. It's there right at...

Loitered Lens: Steve Dior [Pics]

12/02/2012

Sid Vicious's last bandmate standing, Steve Dior performs an intimate show, captured live by Trebuchet photographer Carl Batson. ...

The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

11/02/2012

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

Spirits, Madness, and Love.

10/02/2012

Life as lived in a late empire, in which one's humanity is deemed only worth its value in dollars to the corporate state. Wherein one's identity is flooded by the come-ons and emotional...

Into the Unknown: Omar S

09/02/2012

Omar S – 'Here’s your trance now dance' We’re here again and it’s another song of the month on dance music. I’m guessing about half have been that way over the...

Ronin: Interview

08/02/2012

Interview with OVO drummer Bruno Dorella about with dark folk group Ronin...

Trace Elements: Catch My Pitch

07/02/2012

Picture this: An Oscar-winning super producer, a TV network super suit, their brand new Central London indie offices, and me in the hot seat (it’s still warm from the legendary actor...

Straylings: Interview

06/02/2012

Vulpine and ragged, dropping effortlessly from the plaintive minors of her upper range down to throaty growlings all earthy and powerful, Straylings' Dana Zeera throws her voice around in ways...

Loitered Lens: Bethia Beadman [Pics]

05/02/2012

Bethia Beadman, A chanteuse in a strip club, g-string jokes don't get more apt than this, nor voices as sweet. She has a great website you should investigate. All images Copyright Carl...

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