Archive - Trebuchet

Maz Totterdell: Sweep

21/05/2012

Puppyskinner, nonce. What more? Elitist pseud, naysaying neverwas, pen-envious killjoy bubble-burster. Or, as Samuel Beckett worded his most venomous insult – 'CRITIC!'. For what or who...

Sports slow your brain

20/05/2012

'students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected' "These results were found shortly after the season and we do not know...

Loitered Lens: Bez [Photos]

20/05/2012

Tripping and sunny as the buck himself, Bez. Caning it at the O2, Brixton....

Foul-Mouthed Characters get more of Everything

19/05/2012

My my, this is a prim piece of news. First up, note that the research comes from Brigham Young University, the Utah-based seat of Mormon higher education. Far be it for we at Trebuchet to cast...

The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the Hungry Ghosts of a Corporate State Pt. 2

19/05/2012

In a nation defined by vast wealth disparity and the deprivation it causes others on the planet, by means of impoverished lives and ecological devastation, taking more than one's share...

Kapow Comic convention starts tomorrow

18/05/2012

Masked denizens make prepare to have your 11×17 300dpi fanboy desires inked. Kapow Comic Convention is recognised as one of the major UK conventions related to comic and fantasy. ...

Dinowalrus release video for ‘Beth Steel’

18/05/2012

Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what I mean, the messiah is my sister, ain't no king when she's my queen. This 'news' piece is really an excuse to soften you up for...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Preview]

18/05/2012

Alexei Monroe looks ahead to Europe's annual descent into darkness at Leipzig's Wave Gotik Treffen…. Leipzig's annual Wave Gotik Treffen a.k.a WGT is one of Europe's most...

Tav Falco London in-store

18/05/2012

Post-modern pop classicist TavFalco makes rare appearance in London to promote psychogeographical book. Tav Falco was cool before cool was cool. Or so the internet would have us believe. He is, in...

Meat. Manly?

17/05/2012

Yeah, but are you man enough for a big bowl of Brussels sprouts? Why are men generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research,...

Jesus Jones, PWEI & The Wonderstuff to tour

17/05/2012

For the first time in ages the curious appeal of grebo threatens to deplete UK babysitter stocks far below levels considered safe. Grandparents, cleaners, and clucky plump aquaintances have all...

Morocco [Photos]

17/05/2012

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies Ducks and pigs and chickens call Animal carpet wall to wall American ladies five-foot tall in...

Drug from lizard saliva reduces the cravings for food

16/05/2012

Could this be the germ of truth in the frog-kissing myth? Those princesses always look delightfully slim after all. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have uncovered a, seemingly obvious,...

Bill Ward will not join Black Sabbath on tour

16/05/2012

This tour is cursed. Statement on Upcoming Black Sabbath Shows Dear Sabbath Fans and Fellow Musicians, I sincerely regret to inform you that after a final effort to participate in the upcoming...

Mindless Self Indulgence to Tour

16/05/2012

The four-headed and many-limbed beast that is Mindless Self Indulgence has woken up after a three year slumber to ravage the UK with their ever unique brand of musical mayhem and stage-destroying...

Theatre of Trolls – Masquerade Ball

16/05/2012

'The wretched, the beautiful, the horned-nosed and sweet-bosomed soon strutted and strolled before me.' Andrew Maitland Southern falls hard for a comely bust. It's not every day the...

Sex and Death – Exhibition

15/05/2012

This spring, 20 Earlham Street will host a celebration of art and design, bringing their worlds together in a dynamic and holistic way to explore the historically recurring relationship between...

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion

15/05/2012

Bloodstock Update: Witchsorrow, Dripback, Battalion...

Bad boys are more attractive when seen through ‘ovulation goggles’

15/05/2012

'Ovulation goggles'. You heard it here first. No, seriously. 'Ovulation goggles', in a proper, academic press release. Thanks to research conducted by Kristina Durante (assistant...

Vengeance and the Panther Queen: EP Review

15/05/2012

Cramming in the pyrotechnic axe-wizardry of metal, the chundering drums of dance, and the infantile personal politics of punk. Vengeance and the Panther Queen sometimes get it right. Without even...

Animal Collective announce new album

14/05/2012

Baltimore's Animal Collective announce release dates for their unpronounceable tenth album : Centipede Hz NEW ALBUM – CENTIPIDE Hz – Monday 3rd September 2012 (UK)/Tuesday 4th...

Lizard spit helps you lose weight

14/05/2012

Could this be the germ of truth in the frog-kissing myth? Those princesses always look delightfully slim after all. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have uncovered a, seemingly obvious,...

1234 – Action 01! : Richmix : Savages

14/05/2012

Tonight is one of four warm-up parties to 1234 Shoreditch festival at the Richmix on Bethnal Green Road : Featuring the Savages...

US Army to compost surplus explosives

13/05/2012

But are your exploding vegetables organic? University of Arizona researchers are studying the environmental effects of insensitive munitions compounds, or IMCs, which are new, more stable explosives...

Loitered Lens: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers

13/05/2012

Legendary Shack Shakers - 04/23/12 London Underworld United Kingdom. ...

Smartphones and human interaction

12/05/2012

Just remember the music industry maxim: 'nobody with a smartphone has the authority to write you a cheque'. With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging...

The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the Hungry Ghosts of a Corporate State

12/05/2012

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural...

Crime & the City Solution Gearing Up for Tour

11/05/2012

Crime and the City Solution and planning a tour. Oh great spirit this rarest of events has flashed the cloud crossed heavens with elation. Crime and the city solution NEVER tour… ever....