Archive - Trebuchet

The Police State Makes Its Move

03/12/2011

Retaining One's Humanity in the Face of Tyranny For days now, we have endured demonstrably false propaganda that the fallen soldiers of U.S. wars sacrificed their lives for "our...

Living Room Songs (Olafur Arnalds)

02/12/2011

One song each day for a week. Written, recorded and performed live online in October 2011 Olafur Arnalds. ...

Wino and Conny Ochs – Heavy Kingdom

01/12/2011

Scott ‘Wino’ Weinriich is a pretty heavy guy, he makes most metallers seem plastic. Plastic however is both versatile and happy. St Vitus rate as one of the most influential bands in the...

Kids in Glass Houses – Interview

30/11/2011

Kids in Glass Houses, as their names suggests are obviously not the sort of band that you’d expect to be particularly forthcoming or vitriolic on any topic. Not least because they appear to be a...

What is a Trebuchet?

30/11/2011

What is a Trebuchet? Trebuchet is a deadly siege weapon that hurls an object by using a counterweight. ...

Driven to Distraction: An Academic in Africa

30/11/2011

The rage has been building. For the last few days I have been incapable of driving here without the stupidity of it all getting to me. This morning, for example, I was genuinely nearly...

Film Review: Guilty of Romance

29/11/2011

Sono's Hate trilogy fizzles out with a whimper...

Make Better Music 68: Words and Music

29/11/2011

Writing music comes easily to me for the most part, I’ve usually got a surplus of ideas, so the only the most interesting actually get worked on. The more derivative and unimaginative ideas get...

Everything Looks Like a Nail: The “Social Music” Fallacy

28/11/2011

I was listening to an album on Spotify the other day when I heard an ad between tracks that was promoting Spotify itself, focused on how “social” the service is. Because after all, as the ad...

Black Tusk: Set the Dial

27/11/2011

Savannah chooglin metallers Black Tusk put some grind into their sludge grunt. Black Tusk have a shared history along with bands like Baroness and Kylesa apparently they’re mates and have...

Hellblinki: These Bubbles Come From Ants

27/11/2011

Somwhere in the shadowy forest behind the broken-down big-top, something is stirring… a six-legged beast, shuffling and grunting toward the faded carnival lights… it reaches the edge of...

Mostly Autumn: Grand Opera House, York

26/11/2011

York's Mostly Autumn have played an annual hometown showcase gig at the Grand Opera House for several years now. The event has become an annual pilgrimage for their dedicated fans. In the last...

Capturing the Moment – Bill Hale Interview

26/11/2011

For over 30 years Bill Hale has captured the hairs and prayers of a generation of rock and roll players. the Metallicas, the Megadeths, the Slayers......

I was always closer to rock´n roll (Nils Frahm)

25/11/2011

Interview with Nils Frahm 2011...

King Mob and Bermondsey Joyriders: Live

24/11/2011

Punkemon: elusive punks finally sighted and captured. 17/11/2011 – 229 Portland Street. There is a section of the punk community, born too late to see any of the bands in their prime (and in...

Seduced by art: From art virgin to art collector It sparks off debates, encourages us to take a look at topical issues, delves inside the subconscious, and allows us to have a laugh at the world and...

Make Better Music 67: Raw Power and Sophistication

22/11/2011

For some, measured, intelligent songwriting skills are the pinnacle of musical enjoyment, for others it can be the antithesis of what music is there for - the expression of raw emotion....

David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time

21/11/2011

With Crazy Clown Time David Lynch presents us with an unusual set of terms that defy non-emotional comprehension....

Peter Broderick: Music for Confluence

21/11/2011

The somewhat fantastical world of Erased Tapes record making continues with Peter Broderick's Music for Confluence. After the happy accident in which Nils Frahm's efforts not to wake the...

Loitered Lens: Her [Pics]

20/11/2011

Images by Carl Byron Batson 2011. ...

Denial and Addiction

19/11/2011

Punching a Hole in Bubbles of Denial and Addiction: Late Capitalism and Its Discontents of the American Autumn The global designs of the neo-liberal agenda have met the living architecture of a...

The Kinks in Mono – Retrospective

18/11/2011

Ten albums' worth, in mono. Is a Kinks retrospective more to do with to expiry dates on 1960s publishing contracts than with rediscovering lost classics? Because nobody needs to rediscover The...

Orienteers – Album Review

17/11/2011

Sometimes simplicity is bliss. Orienteers are the heavy-lidded lords of a sweet, sleepy land of achingly pretty melodies, peaceful reflection and fuzzy warmth. They seem to need very little to create...

Monkey Kung Fu Fights – An Academic in Africa

16/11/2011

“So who would win, a man who knew kung fu, or an adult male chimp?” “The chimp would kill you.” “Even if the man knew kung fu?” “It would not matter if he...

Make Better Music 66: Embrace the Chaos

15/11/2011

In the midst of a vast YouTube binge the other evening (I’ve got a thirst for seeking out to interviews with musicians I like, and seem to be hopeless at turning YouTube off), I happened to come...

Opeth – Live, Brixton Academy

14/11/2011

Sweden's Opeth have come a long way in the past twenty years. Starting out playing death metal with growling vocals on the heaviest songs, their ambitious music mixed light and shade from the...

Photo Essay – Judith Scott at Museum of Everything

14/11/2011

Museum of Everything showcases outsider art and people not usually recognised as artists. I loved the Judith Scott exhibition, and especially intriguing were the x-rays of the...

Loitered Lens: Healthy Junkies [Pics]

13/11/2011

Melodic French edge meets English grunt. Parisian Lead singer Nina Courson teamed up with British guitarist Phil Honey-Jones just over a year ago to set about writing and recording one song for a...

Charlene Soraia – Moonchild

12/11/2011

Charlene Soraia's ability to split her voice into ultra-shrill harmonics is a talent. There was a chap a few years ago with an act entitled 'The Puppetry of the Penis' who was able to...

Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart (X Edition)

11/11/2011

Any album by a band's vocalist going solo needs to justify its existence by revealing some sort of personal vision, some characteristic that wouldn't be found on work by the band. Searching...

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