Metahub – Nuit Blanche, Amiens 2011

27/10/2011

Digital Arts: Flash in the pan, light at the end of the tunnel or oncoming train wreck.  Amiens, France 15th October  This year saw a conjunction between digital artists in the UK and...

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Catch 22 writer, Joseph Heller, enjoyed WW2

26/10/2011

Continuing with the Trebuchet-News inadvertent sub-theme in which we look at interesting letters which just happen to be for sale in prominent auction houses, today's news story concerns Joseph...

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Hectic Zeniths – 2011 Album Review

26/10/2011

Hectic Zeniths are playing a dangerous game. It’s hard to describe the sound that pervades these tracks without recalling two very famous albums,  the very mention of which is likely to...

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The Beatles – take them off your hands for less than a tenner

25/10/2011

The Beatles first manager dropped the band….for £9 Those poor old Beatles fellas. On November 15th Christies will auction a letter penned by Paul McCartney in 1960, hoping to find a...

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Anglicanism, animism, atheism and assessments. In Nigeria

25/10/2011

News of my atheism seems to have spread.  I’ve not exactly been evangelical about it – in fact I’ve barely mentioned it.  But when a colleague with whom I have never even...

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Mars landing vehicle digs deep

24/10/2011

As previously reported here in Trebuchet, NASA plans to land a car-sized exploration vehicle on the Gale crater on Mars next August. In a follow-up to the original press statement, NASA have made...

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Kid Koala – Space Cadet

24/10/2011

Typical. You wait all year for an album playing on the sound of the internal mechanisms of the piano, and then two turn up within a fortnight.  On first impressions, Kid Koala's Space Cadet...

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Sex and booze and Rock ‘n’ Roll

23/10/2011

The average US adolescent is heavily exposed to alcohol brand references in popular music. An appropriate story for Sunday morning, as the overpriced alcohol many of you slurped last night works its...

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Loitered Lens: Black Nazarene [Pics]

23/10/2011

Black Nazarene Website. Images by Carl Byron Batson 2011. ...

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Fabrics Remix Competition

22/10/2011

The remix competition, it's been around as a concept for quite a while now. Occasionally resulting in some significant new directions for dance.  The remix competition, it's been around...

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Takako Shimizu – Piecemaker Exhibition 2011

22/10/2011

Mosaic sculptor Takako Shimizu explores the other facets of Glass.  It’s clear that while glass heats to a liquid state and cools to become a solid, something of its liquid nature always...

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Essential oils not so cuddly

21/10/2011

It's been obvious for a long time that sniffing hippies can be dangerous to your health. The stink of patchouli in the morning has long been associated with horrible student accommodation,...

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Glasvegas to Play special one-off KOKO show

21/10/2011

Scottish rock melodicists Glasvegas are to play KOKO on Monday October 24th.  Tickets here: website...

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DJ Food. Magpies, Maps and Moons EP & Live Review

21/10/2011

DJ Food – Magpies, Maps and Moons EP If nothing else, DJ Food provides NinjaTune with continuity. By now verging on the status of a legacy act, the item has been around as long as the label...

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Amon Tobin brings ISAM back to London

20/10/2011

Be very quick, this will sell out in the next few hours! Amon Tobin returns to the UK with the astounding live show for his 'Isam' album.  HMV FORUM, London. 23rd Nov w/ Slugabed, DJ Set...

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How hemp got high

20/10/2011

 A team of researchers led by Drs Jon Page and Tim Hughes from Canada sequenced DNA from the potent Purple Kush (PK) marijuana strain Taiwanese pottery shards dating from the Tapenkeng culture...

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iconAclass: Powers that be interview

20/10/2011

Powers that be: Will Brooks, hip hop’s transgressor and previously dälek, steps into the light as iconAclass.  Hip hop that referenced musique concrete and My Bloody Valentine,...

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NASA to land car-sized rover on Mars

19/10/2011

Gale crater, just below the equator of Mars, is set to receive its first significant activity in three and a half billion years. Scheduled for August 2012, a capsule will break its fall by popping a...

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Ideageneration present album art by Storm Thorgerson

19/10/2011

Far from being a dead art, the album cover as a statement has developed and adapted to its newest, most challenging form – the tiny square on the display of an iPod. In spaces so small, only...

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Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, an American avant-garde music group from San Francisco, performing at Williamsburg Music Hall, Brooklyn, New York, May 30, 2009. Photo: ampersandyslexia (wiki)

I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

19/10/2011

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

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David Lynch to curate Club Silencio, Paris

18/10/2011

Not a bad idea here from Club Silencio, having David Lynch add his very personal touch to proceedings at their Paris club. Not that Lynch would ever be so predictable as to raid his own oeuvre so...

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Make Better Music 63: Simplicity vs Complexity

18/10/2011

Sometimes I like to overload a song with overdubs and production tricks - if that is what suits it. More can be more in this case. Of course the opposite is also true, less intensely produced music...

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Head Cat – Live London 2011

17/10/2011

Rock and Roll; graceless music for rebel outcasts, Head Cat called the sabbath crowd to disorder.   Lemmy (Motorhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B Harvey (Lonesome Spurs)...

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Sledding causes injuries. Ouch.

17/10/2011

Ow. Child meets tree, at speed. Never the most auspicious of circumstances. Although Newtonian physics tell us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it always seemed to me that the...

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Art, Money and Shredded Credit Cards at Frieze 2011

17/10/2011

October is the shining pinnacle of the art world calendar, and you cannot have failed to notice that Frieze, the biggest beast of all art fairs, unveiled it’s glistening art delights this...

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Rome Wasn’t Burned In A Day: Wall Street 2011

16/10/2011

Replacing Liberal Timidity With Leftist Passion Why is it that self-termed progressives are in full retreat (and have been for decades) from the witless army of angry clowns and hack illusionists of...

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First track of Paul Catten’s new album

16/10/2011

As a follow-up to Trebuchet's review of the intriguing album Themes and Variations for Strings and Electronics, it's nothing but a pleasure to direct you all to the exclusive stream of the...

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Flatulent oceanic microbes contributing to global warming

15/10/2011

Much like teenage boys using their own gases to communicate amongst themselves, or perhaps even like the schoolkid's trick of burping the alphabet, it seems that oceanic microbes have been up to...

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Moodymanc Vs Jamie Finlay – People Circulate

15/10/2011

Development Music make much of their artists' Manchester provenance in the promotional literature accompanying this release. Even the artist's name really wants to be sure you know where he...

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Johnny Foreigner put new album on the road

14/10/2011

Johnny Foreigner announce two album launch shows plus special album pre-order New album Johnny Foreigner vs Everything released November 7th, Gigs in London and Birmingham on 12th and 13th...

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