Archive - Trebuchet

Life: Crawling Along for 3.2 Billion Years.

09/11/2016

Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought ...

I ballroom danced in Norwich the other night: King Parrot (Interview)

09/11/2016

Extreme metal never smelled so bad. King Parrot's Matthew Young on dreams, dancing and digestion....

The Straight, White Canon, and How to Evade It (Interview with Collective Creativity)

08/11/2016

Something Human curator Annie Jael Kwan talks to Collective Creativity members...

Balloons, A Bob, Beth Orton (live at Kentish Town Forum)

07/11/2016

Sparkly and statuesque, Beth Orton ushers a folktronic breeze through the Forum...

Swedish Heavy Metal Monday Mashup

07/11/2016

HammerFall and Civil War prove there's more sludgy grind to Sweden than Ikea's meatballs...

Earworms: A Guide to Making Them, And Getting Rid of Them

06/11/2016

Why some songs get stuck in your head ...

Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

06/11/2016

Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens...

Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

Somewhere to Go, and a Way to Get Back: Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska

04/11/2016

Artists Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska discuss their current work at Krisis, Nottingham...

Typical Metal Gig, But Better. (Battle of the Bays, Manchester)

03/11/2016

Warm beer, loud metal. Manchester heats up for the Battle of the Bays...

A Refined and Technical Stitch Up: Autopsy (Coroner)

03/11/2016

Reanimating the corpse of a tech metal troupe who should have been HUGE...

Peacocks Wandered Aimlessly: Pagan Science (The Well)

02/11/2016

Cosmic folk to occult choir - bringing the rock ain't always easy, but where there's The Well, there's a way...

Between the covers: I Could Be Happy (Nouvelle Vague)

01/11/2016

Delightful subtlety and sumptuous variance - Nouvelle Vague...

Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)

01/11/2016

Forging on after the death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński, Riverside continue to intrigue...

Happy Hallowe’en From NASA, With a Bunch of Pumpkin Stars

31/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcapopical news from NASA couldn’t be more timely on this Hallowe’en day. They’ve found a bunch of stars that look...

I wanted to actually capture some of the sky. (Interview: Nicola Anthony)

31/10/2016

'As a species we adapt. Many suffering, and others denying. This is a classic reaction to trauma.' ...

Forget Hornby, How About 3D Printing the Universe?

30/10/2016

Physicists make it possible to 3-D print your own baby universe ...

Loitered Lens: Augustines

30/10/2016

Photos from Augustines last ever London gig at the Kentish Town Forum, October 2016...

Born Slippy: The Freaky Chemistry of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark

29/10/2016

How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist ...

Trump: The Handy Hillaryite Denial Buddy

29/10/2016

Donald Trump is the arch enabler of Hillaryites' addiction to political pettifoggery...

Tastes Like Chicken? Wiggly Meat and the Rise of Edible Insects

28/10/2016

The buzz about edible bugs: Can they replace beef? ...

Kargeras Returns From The Land of the Almost Ignored (Root)

28/10/2016

Czech dark metal act Root are a band you haven’t heard of, but should have...

FastFags: Growing More Tobacco, Quicker Tobacco

27/10/2016

Scientists at MIPT beat the clock by quickly finding out what makes plants tick...

We got to drive a car and smash into things. (Red Fang, Interview)

27/10/2016

Red Fang’s guitarist, David Sullivan, insists it's not ALL debauched Valhalla hedonism...

Is That Russet, Vermillion or Pheophytin A? The Science of Autumn

26/10/2016

Mendel's Stay-Green gene encodes an enzyme that extracts magnesium from chlorophyll, colouring our Autumn vistas...

Krisis, Contribution, Conversation: Talking Photography (Interview with John Clang and Sama Alshaibi)

26/10/2016

Art - asking the early and meaningful questions society is not ready to address...

‘Middle England’ faces lowest psychosis risk

25/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcaphite, middle class, older. Psychosis and its attendent conditions are a lower risk for those who fit into the ‘Middle...

We Are Augustines for Another Few Weeks (Augustines at the Forum)

25/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt was some time during 2011 when I first experienced Augustines. A brief affair; I was alone, miles from home and looking for a...