Archive - Trebuchet

Innate Talent, Meticulous Painting (Shizu Saldamando)

10/08/2015

Born to parents of Mexican and Japanese decent, Saldamando’s work embodies components that reflect her bi-racial heritage....

A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet

09/08/2015

The way "our" people are humanized, and the “terrorist” demonized is classic media sleight of hand....

Cedric de Smedt : New Work on Video

08/08/2015

‘I’m evolving into a very dark and bitter universe, where emptiness is almost oppressive and where time seems to have stopped'...

Loitered Lens : Cortes

08/08/2015

Cortes delivered the spoils to an eager London audience....

Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

07/08/2015

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....

Easy on the whiskey now! Cockadoodledon’t (Vinyl re-release)

06/08/2015

Listening to Th' Legendary Shack Shakers feels like swillin' liquor in a Kentucky barn which, if you're very lucky, you aren't sharing with the hogs....

Sunrise Celebration at Boomtown Fair

05/08/2015

BoomTown Fair is a 49,999 capacity theatrical festival that creates a totally immersive environment with ambitious themed stage sets and winding streets, complete with interactive venues transporting...

A Talent Show Without Talent. X Factor (Part two)

05/08/2015

The society that allowed us to flourish creatively whatever our background or income is in rapid decline. That cannot be right....

Nordic Techno goes IKEA. Laiva T#16

04/08/2015

A moment of head-down eyes-closed dancefloor reverie is captured perfectly....

The decadent and defiant paintings of Nick Brown

03/08/2015

The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing...

Cold Soup?! Get Stuffed! It’s Vertical Salad. Gazpacho

02/08/2015

Gazpacho is, potentially, a cornerstone of the vegetable juice purge diet, with the rare novelty of actually being delicious....

Loitered Lens : Reverend Horton Heat

01/08/2015

Preaching to the converted, as ever the Reverend gave the assembled beer holders a most satisfying selection showing that, unlike other clergy, he hasn’t lost his power to touch his congregation...

Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again

29/07/2015

Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of...

Mick Harvey UK Summer Dates

28/07/2015

Starting at London’s Lexington on 30 July, the tour includes performances in Glasgow and Newcastle....

Thundering Underdogs and Bubblegum Cool (Skyforger Interview)

28/07/2015

When we write our songs, we don’t really care if the riff is heavy metal, thrash or death or black metal or whatever, we just care if it sounds good. Skyforger interview...

Facets of True Beauty: Chong-Il Woo

27/07/2015

Not only are Woo’s subjects physically striking, but the historical significance of their roles within Korean history demonstrates how integral one’s culture is to one’s essence of being....

Loitered Lens: Misterwives

26/07/2015

Pinned between the pre pubescent girls, horny dads and the PA system, Carl Byron Batson frames Misterwives at Islington O2...

New Strats and Teles : Reconditioning Guitars for Sound Lounge

25/07/2015

The idea that a loved but untouched instrument can find a new and noble home is one that warms the hearts of many musicians. As it did with Sound Lounge / Fair Frets founder Keiron Marshall when he...

If I ran the economy…

24/07/2015

The fact that our market is distorted enough that millions of working families now need state help to meet basic living costs is the problem. Not the ‘scroungers’ ...

Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….

23/07/2015

This is probably Cradle of Filth 's best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish)....

The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

21/07/2015

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

Finding the Child Inside : Kathy Curtis Cahill

20/07/2015

My main interest is still people and their inner selves hidden behind the public face. I am looking for ways to show that still vulnerable child inside....

Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

19/07/2015

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

18/07/2015

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

Reverend Horton Heat, Islington Academy.

16/07/2015

During a dusty warm front in old London town, Reverend Horton Heat and his punkabilly ensemble took to the stage at Islington Academy...

3 Weeks to Go! Countdown to Bloodstock!

15/07/2015

BLOODSTOCK HQ is a-buzz with activity with just over three weeks to go!...

Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

15/07/2015

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)

14/07/2015

Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru's underground dance scene. What's that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer's garden? Peru Boom 2015...

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