Archive - Trebuchet

Loitered Lens: The Damned (O2 Islington)

15/01/2016

The Damned, Islington Academy, December 2015...

We get so much respect, but we get jealously too (Thundermother)

15/01/2016

Swedish accadacca influenced rockers Thundermother ride the rock lightning....

When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

14/01/2016

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...

Make Better Music 80: The Art of Remixing (Part Two)

13/01/2016

Be careful to maintain the integrity of the original piece, while at all times striving to produce something new. ...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

With a Rictus Grin and Another Pint: Surviving The Totally Democratic Bar

11/01/2016

Should we complain if a lot of very average bands and soloists carry on in the belief that they are special?...

Loitered Lens: Edward Rogers

09/01/2016

Photos of Edward Rogers at Islington Assembly Hall, on a night where Ray and Dave Davies shared the stage for a near Kinks reunion....

The Hills are Alive with Laibach European Dates (Spring 2015)

08/01/2016

European dates for Laibach's Sound of Music tour...

Radioland: Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity revisited (Matthew Bourne/Franck Vigroux)

08/01/2016

Radioland: A Kraftwerk re-werk that is well-executed, worthy but only partially successful....

When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

05/01/2016

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

Music turned septic. Kalash Tirich Mir (German Army)

04/01/2016

The faltering synth drones and brittle percussion of Kalash Tirich Mir seem like a terribly appropriate soundtrack to our cultural stalemate...

Loitered Lens: Black Star Riders (The Scala)

03/01/2016

Hard rock riffage at the London stop of the Black Star Riders Killer Instinct tour. Photos...

Of the flesh and its many variations (Oliver Jones)

02/01/2016

Photorealistic works underscoring the impact that today’s ceaseless stream of beauty-obsessed media can impart...

War, Government, and Surveillance (Killing Joke, live at the Roundhouse)

01/01/2016

Timely musings on Killing Joke at the Roundhouse, London. UK. November 6th 2015 ...

Please Come Home! Lonely Robot at The Scala

31/12/2015

As the last significant gig in progressive rock's calendar, Lonely Robot at The Scala made a great finale to the year. ...

Loitered Lens: The Amorettes

30/12/2015

The Amorettes are the real deal, delivering pure raw pussy powered rock and roll....

Star Wars and the Escapism of the Mindless

29/12/2015

What will a future Democratic president's agenda will entail? Hint: Take note of which Republican declarations Democratic partisans are fuming in self-righteous outrage against now....