The Footlong Hotdog of the Apocalypse: Part 1

07/07/2012

´Too often people practice freedom of speech, rather than committing to the more difficult task of pursuing freedom of being’ Almost exactly ten years ago, in June of 2002, my wife and I were...

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Marxism 2012 – Kicks Off!

06/07/2012

This years Maxism festival is a packed with speakers and events for the more politically ideologic of Trebuchet readers.  This years topics will obviously centre around the arab spring and the...

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King of the Swingers: Orang Utans Efficiency Examined

06/07/2012

Next, scientists examine the best method for lobbing a turd at gawpers. Urban athletes show that for orangutans, it pays to sway Swaying trees is the way to go, if you are a primate crossing the...

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Tinsel Edwards & Twinkle Troughton: A Mini Retrospective

06/07/2012

A kidnapped banker, an some escaped fairies and a body of work that has sprung from a duo of artists who’ve collaborated since childhood…. Until the 19th July, artists Tinsel Edwards...

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Website finds horny women via their reading matter

05/07/2012

Pity those of us too superannuated to be young, free and single in the age of the app. Back in the day, discovering whether a potential female partner was in the mood for frolicsome fun was a...

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Hank3: Interview/Live Review

05/07/2012

Most bands have enough problems getting out one album at a time. Not so for Hank 3, real name Shelton Hank Williams, also know as Hank Williams the Third, and grandson of the legendary country...

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The Shadow of an Atom: Photographed

04/07/2012

Makes the zoom feature on your iPhone seem a little feeble by comparison. In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a...

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Malaria! An Academic in Africa

04/07/2012

I never did do the conference in the end.  I’ve spent most of the last week, including all of the weekend, feeling rough as hell.  Like having bad flu but without much in the way of a...

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Trojan Records, Clarks Originals and Toddla T Collaboration

03/07/2012

Whether Trojan records teamong up with shoe-makers Clarks originals counts as a masterstroke of brand identitification, or an inducement of harrowing post-traumatic flashbacks, really depends upon...

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Civil Civic + Umez: The Macbeth

03/07/2012

As with many gigs around this time of year, this was something of a competition: bands versus football. One end of The Macbeth was rather dominated by a projector and screen (showing an entertaining...

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Blur – latest tracks – “The Puritan” & “Under The Westway” available for consideration

02/07/2012

BLUR – “The Puritan” & “Under The Westway”  In case you missed it…  This evening, from the rooftop of their west London studio, Blur performed...

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Brompton Dock – Virgin Trains supports Bike Hire Scheme

02/07/2012

Finally a UK bike scheme that supports UK manufacturers.  Press Release:  Bromptondock folding cycle hire scheme launches in Stoke-on-Trent Second dock for Virgin Trains installed at the...

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Spiritualized: New Video

02/07/2012

On the same day as the Pet Shop Boys release a (very dull) video, the manic visual energy of a life spent conducting unofficial pharmaceutical research on oneself makes itself apparent in the...

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Pet Shop Boys: New Single

02/07/2012

Sounds like Pachabel's Canon is getting (yet) another runthrough. This time by those purveyors of dance music (for people who don't dance), Pet Shop Boys. Not the most frenetic of videos...

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“A Progress” enters crowd-sourced preproduction.

02/07/2012

Local theatre group and Trebuchet Alumni 'Beggars Belief' are you asking you to take a look at their proposal 'A Progress' and if so inclined support them. On the basis the it...

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Crazy Golf at Selfridges

02/07/2012

As a veteran crazy golfer I approached the Selfridges course with low expectations. How could a ‘pop up’ on a department store roof offer the nightmare experience provided by an enormous...

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Fastest Pulsar Ever Found?

01/07/2012

Researchers using three different telescopes — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia — may have found the...

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Preview: Cambridge Folk Festival sets sights high!

01/07/2012

Eclectic and expansive, as the Cambridge Folk Festival should be, the list of acts is now immense. Among the ones to look out for ar June Tabor and the Oyster Band, especially if they play that Joy...

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Trebuchet [Album]

01/07/2012

Trebuchet, the band… Trebuchet, the album… The name seems familiar, but I just can’t place it… Comprised of four experienced hands from California’s underground indie and post-rock scenes,...

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Viva le Rock/Gypsy Hotel: The Garage

30/06/2012

I’ve always found Highbury Garage (I’m still refusing to call it Relentless Garage) a rather sterile venue, but when the evening began with a male unicyclist, Count Adriano Fettuchini, stripping...

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In the Name of My Father, Part 2

30/06/2012

Not too long ago, I had a dream wherein I stood gazing over the atrium of a large complex of multi-story structures. Inadvertently, I dropped my "special" writing pen…It glinted...

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Kangding Ray Monad XI

30/06/2012

Monad XI is the latest in the Stroboscopic Arfects label's ongoing experimental series and marks a further development in the label's thoughtful aesthetics....

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Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies [Live]

29/06/2012

A Retro-rock night and musical fashions, anachronism, mending old ground, conversational racism and phenomenal guitar playing.  Let’s burn something. The Borderline is a place where Rock and...

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Poo Power – Energy from Excrement

28/06/2012

Energy from excrement: Scientists have invented a new toilet system that will turn human waste into electricity...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 2)]

28/06/2012

Review of gothic industrial festival Wave Gotik Treffen 2012...

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Shimi, the musical robot

27/06/2012

Sex, drugs? Bet it doesn't even ask for an advance on royalties. Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Shimi, a musical companion...

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Mikhael Paskalev’s ‘Jive Babe’

27/06/2012

Contributing to the buzz-mongering, hype-aggregating, SEO-chasing churnalism that passes for music writing in the era of revenue-by-pageview web publishing makes irritating little tics spasm under...

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Loitered Lens: Screamin’ Sugar Skulls

27/06/2012

‘a nightmarish peek into a world our parents warned us about if we were caught masturbating, didn’t finish our homework, eat our greens or say our prayers at bedtime’. So says Col. Jon,...

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The Other Shades of Grey

26/06/2012

Oh come on, let the old folks get it on if they want to. Institutionalised infantalisation blights the provision of care for the old, and for all that we may quip smugly to ourselves about friction...

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Total Recall

26/06/2012

Total Recall, Cheese and Tofu: An elementary and culinary guide to not fretting about the remake Like many, when the pre-trailer trailer of the new Total Recall was released I was...

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