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Daylight Savings Time – Bad for your kids’ health?

12/11/2011

Clocks spring forward, then fall back. The mnemonic of choice for one of the least popular aspects of Autumn. Resetting clocks and losing an hours daylight in the evening, just so we can have an...

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...

Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers

11/11/2011

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers by Mike Patton is out now on Ipecac...

The Walls of St Pauls by Kailas Elmer 2013

Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

10/11/2011

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

Heather Findlay and Chris Johnson – ‘Live at the Cafe 68’ – Review

10/11/2011

Recorded before an intimate audience of just thirty people, 'Live at the Café 68' is York singer-songwriter Heather Findlay's second release since leaving as lead singer of...

Oh You Minx! Women, Roman Mosaics, and Stereotypes

09/11/2011

Stirring it. The cause of wars, famine, plague, pestilence, disease and just about everything else. Women, they're a terrible bunch. Stereotypes of women as troublemakers date back into the misty...

Abdul’ll Fix It – An Academic in Africa

09/11/2011

For the last six weeks I have lived in Nigeria as an illegal immigrant. My visa (which I don’t think ever technically allowed me to work here anyway) expired on the 6th of June, and no...

Supersonic festival 2011 – review

08/11/2011

Begin transmission: Supersonic is the probably the greatest festival or true music lovers in the UK, perhaps further afield. Stop. 21st to 24th October. Attending Supersonic 2011 felt like being...

Make Better Music 65: A Musical Process

08/11/2011

So this week, having been inspired by a particular piece of music, I’m going to focus on one particular kind of procedure - which doesn’t really have a name. I’ll just try to describe it....

My Hummer Doesn’t Cause Climate Change – It’s Those Damned Jellyfish!

07/11/2011

This one looks like it came from the petrochemicals lobby. It's all a matter of perspective really. If you live on a low-lying island in the Tuamoto group and find that your ocean view has...

FZV – Soundsump

07/11/2011

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

Achy Breaky Heart? Not surprised. It’s rubbish for your ears AND your chances of survival.

06/11/2011

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. We all hope never to need it, or to have to apply it. However, in an emergency situation, just which song would you play on your iPod before leaning in and doing mouth...

Loitered Lens: Grim Dylan [Pics]

06/11/2011

Photos of Grim Dylan 2011...

ET forgets to turn off the lights

05/11/2011

Don't you just love scientists? It's a nice idea – to look for the lights of alien cities, but citing Galileo seems a touch grandiose for such a piece of schoolboy logic. And aren't...

Why OWS Has Already Overcome

05/11/2011

Police Repression, Official Mendacity and Why OWS Has Already Overcome Until recent events proved otherwise, the hyper-commercialized surface of the corporate state gave the appearance of being too...

GWAR Guitarist Found Dead

04/11/2011

Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus of GWAR has been found dead, aged 34. A member of GWAR since 2002, Smoot was found dead this morning as the band prepared to travel to their next tour date. No cause...

Artists: what are we worth?

04/11/2011

The economic crisis has meant an economic armageddon for artists. What are we worth? was a panel discussion led by DACS and Artquest that considered how artists can create income in support of their...

Controversy over reopening the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of Stone Age art

03/11/2011

A perennial topic in Spain – whether or not to allow the public access to fragile areas, which are nonetheless looked upon as part of the country's public patrimony. Plus there's the...

Autumn – Cold Comfort

03/11/2011

Autumn tweak their heavy rock roots and embrace 'progressive musical genres and alternative approaches' Oo err! Cold Comfort is the Dutch six-piece Autumn's fifth full-length album. While...

Celestial Pac-Man Grows Teeth

02/11/2011

Honestly, astrophysicists. They're a dry lot. Pac-Man, really? Theyr'e obviously blinded by familiarity with the true beauty of the cosmos. Clearly, it's actually a recumbent yellow...

Servants, Scrapes and Situations – An Academic in Nigeria

02/11/2011

Deprived of cultural stimuli we appreciate every cultural artefact in a much more intense way. Saturated with cultural stimuli that intensity, in one sense, is diminished. That’s not to...

Orcas Need Holidays Too

01/11/2011

Winter's homing in, the nights are getting longer, and if you were a whale, a really clever whale, you'd be thinking about swimming up to the tropics right now. Well, maybe not right now,...

Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart: X Edition

01/11/2011

Any album by a band's vocalst 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...

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”

01/11/2011

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”The big question that always demands an answer, when you are writing music, is what happens next? It seems straightforward until you try it. Then...

I Can Resist Anything But Temptation….

31/10/2011

Resisting temptation? Trying to give something up? Trick is not to think about it. There you are, we obviously needed scientists to tell us that thinking about a cold beer on a hot day just makes it...

We would go totally apeshit (Splatterheads)

31/10/2011

Trebuchet interviews Sly, vocalist and guitarist for The Splatterheads, about their history and tentatively, the future of the parochial Australian rock labourer....

Mozart Ideal For Rectal Probing

30/10/2011

See, no-one mentions anything about how the patients felt about it. Personally, I'd be yelling out exactly where Wolfgang Ammadeus could stick his Magic Flute. Physicians who listen to Mozart...

Loitered Lens: Catfight/Gasoline Thrill [Pics]

30/10/2011

Catfight have forged a breathy reputation for getting dirty in UK venues since 2009, and giving you more rock for your pound. Prior to becoming Gasoline Thrill Trebuchet captured Catfight live at the...

Mobilizing Society, Quickly

29/10/2011

MIT researchers demonstrate ways to mobilize society quickly. Hint: they paid them. Last December UK students marched on Westminster to protest against a dramatic increase in tuition fees. Despite...

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