Archive - Trebuchet

The Tribes of Britain

21/11/2012

To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. ...

Gary Numan UK Tour Dates

20/11/2012

These concerts will feature brand new songs from the forthcoming 'SPLINTER album (due in 2013), plus new versions of tracks from 2011's DEAD SON RISING album, which are currently being worked...

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Petition: For An Accountable BBC

19/11/2012

The recruitment of the BBC's next Director General must be a process in which the license-payer has influence...

Peter Gabriel Plays So

19/11/2012

The album upon which 'Red Rain', Don't Give Up' and the ubiquitous 'Sledgehammer' featured will be played in its entirety, along with a showcase of tracks spanning the artist's career...

Ben Caplan [Live]

19/11/2012

Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s...

Naive Fish Make Easy Prey

18/11/2012

Big fish that have grown up in marine reserves don't seem to know enough to avoid fishers armed with spear guns waiting outside the reserve....

Loitered Lens: Nightwish

18/11/2012

‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it....

SWN Festival

17/11/2012

A brilliant little festival. Lots going in on, all within a stone's throw....

English Grads: Less Useless Than You Thought

17/11/2012

'is there any research on how unemployable an English graduate is? As it happens, yes.' ...

Perhaps Contraption:Interview

16/11/2012

When I play music, and connect with other musicians, I want to be transported away from the tripe the world churns up....

The Raymen: Death’s Black Train EP

16/11/2012

If you don’t buy it you will die, if you do buy it you will die. You may as well buy it and die happy....

Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...

Mayan Prophesy Fail

15/11/2012

'soil loss could eventually have undercut the Maya's ability to grow food'. Ancient Mayans may have foretold our civilisation's doom, but they failed to foresee their own....

Can ‘Khan’ Oral – Angels of Disguise

15/11/2012

As a jumping-off point for facetious gasbagging of just about any moral, political, religious or personal viewpoint, pornography is a gift to the commentator in love with the sound of his or her own...

Secret Garden Party reveals 2013 Theme

14/11/2012

This year the Secret Garden will be asking all Gardeners to explore their affinity to the supernatural, the inexplicable and the irrational… to indulge the tussle between the left brain's sober...

Stabbing a Dead Horse

14/11/2012

"We have Mellotron! We are Prog again!". Tim Hall reports on the last night of the Stabbing a Dead Horse prog rock tour....

[Listen] Jessie Ware Remixes

13/11/2012

Remixes of Jessie Ware's 'No To Love' available to stream...

Let it Be [Theatre]

13/11/2012

It should not be possible to make a Sgt Pepper's set look more like a Slade Christmas special...

Crunching Genital Injury Stats

12/11/2012

Women saw a five-fold increase in genital injuries between 2002 and 2008, and show no signs of slowing....

The Vudu Experiment: Pt. 3

12/11/2012

'logic has completely failed us - the Kingdom is in tatters. What have you got to lose?' SWP applies Voodoo thinking to the UK's political woes ...

Dream Trippin’

11/11/2012

What you dream reveals what you are. ...

Loitered Lens: Zulu

11/11/2012

A wall of guitar sound with nods to Sonic Youth style discord, eighties goth type melodies and some fast and furious new wave drumming....

Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal

10/11/2012

A 2 year voyage for this, the largest ever collection of Andy Warhol works in Asia, which will tour from Singapore to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing Tokyo. ...

DELS: Black Salad [EP]

10/11/2012

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

Nightwish: Brixton Academy [Live]

09/11/2012

Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it. Floor Jansen made a very strong impression,...

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Electric Ballroom [Live]

09/11/2012

As they launch into the second song of the set, the filthy 'Celebrate Your Mother', members of the audience are already flinging themselves around and being dragged, sometimes minus footwear, over...

Syd Arthur: Dorothy [Stream]

08/11/2012

A scruffy bunch of Canterbury hair-farmers they may be, but Syd Arthur certainly nailed that awful hopelessness of pavement cafes and flimsy sundresses giving way to the slate-grey gloom of November....

A Brave New World of Sugar and Caffeine

08/11/2012

Sugar mouthwash makes you more motivated, caffeine improves your cognitive function, and fermented-sugar ethanol will convert the schoolrun into an environmentally friendly activity, wafting the...

Panic Room: On Performance

08/11/2012

'It's always a balancing act when you're drawing up a set list; I think people would be surprised to know how many hours we literally spend agonizing over it'. UK rock band Panic Room talk about live...

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