Archive - Trebuchet

Fasten your fascinators, Swingamajig is landing

16/04/2015

An eclectic line up boasting not only the Electric Swing Circus, but a whole host of seriously crowd rousing beats...

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

We are watching your culture too. Captured

15/04/2015

Captured highlights the premise that embracing diversity is essential for the continued development of Native American art....

A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]

14/04/2015

Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona...

Faith No More UK Dates Announced

13/04/2015

- Playing main stage Download Festival Saturday June 13th - Band to record session at legendary BBC Maida Vale studios - Sold out US headline tour starts April 15th...

Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]

13/04/2015

This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared....

Charging out: Dataflame’s costly domain transfer fees

12/04/2015

In 2014, popular web domain registrar 123-reg created a disgruntled buzz when, they started charging people to move their domains away. In 2015, it seems that Dataflame are charging £15+vat to...

Lacking in natural grease, Rock Top Trumps Deathmatch

12/04/2015

You can spend hours in your bedroom practising your scales and hours more preening and primping but you can’t spray on that magical gritty rock and roll quality...

An undercurrent of groove and funk… gone dull. [Polar Bear]

11/04/2015

Two tracks in, and the band departs to leave the irritatingly named Leafcutter John to give the audience a few minutes of meandering ambient nonsense....

System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

10/04/2015

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

Bloodstock 2015 Updates and Club Nights tour

09/04/2015

Bloodstock 2015 strengthens its lineup with seven more bands, and announces a slew of club nights to warm up the metal glands...

A time-traveller’s log : The Stele of Revealing

09/04/2015

Over the 3 days comprising the 8th, 9th and 10th of April 2015 Thelemites around the world will celebrate the transmission of Liber Al Vegis to Aleister Crowley in a Cairo hotel room....

Fish brings Misplaced Childhood back on tour

08/04/2015

It was not only a breakthrough album for the band but also for me as an artist because I was finally discovering my own individual style as a lyricist and singer....

HRH Prog 2015

08/04/2015

Pwllheli is a long way from anywhere at the far end of a winding single-track railway line. The train stops many, many times at little request stops, but only if you know how to pronounce the...

Language games across the checkmate of infinity

07/04/2015

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

Officer?! There’s mashed potato on the Pentonville Road! [The Lovely Eggs]

06/04/2015

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A more melodic variation on the metal theme [Karnivool]

05/04/2015

Metal is mostly preaching to the converted, but the congregation at London's Roundhouse was definitely devout and ecstatic....

A battle between nature and technology [Clark]

04/04/2015

Clark's music expresses a world precariously balanced, sounding equally on the brink of triumph and disaster; the two often intertwining...

Test Dept – DS30 : April 23, Ritzy Picturehouse

03/04/2015

This screening of DS30 is accompanied by a selection of archive material of the group on film and video which will be followed by a Q & A with founding members ...

An initial crunch, then a soft succulent filling [Port Royal Patties]

02/04/2015

'New Product Development can be time consuming and wasteful. On the other hand, customers want to see NPD from time to time'...

The Other Garden

01/04/2015

Four artists explore themes of temptation and paradise lost, voyeurism and privacy, curiosity, obsession and gratification...

Artist or designer? [Alexander McQueen retrospective]

01/04/2015

McQueen wraps the girls up protectively, in fabrics fitted so elegantly and perfectly that you begin to wonder if the clothing is meant to be like a shield....

Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]

31/03/2015

As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner's work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. ...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

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Ripping into the Islington night [Night Ranger]

29/03/2015

Hardcore fans packed out the venue whilst the band hit the stage with a mighty explosion of raw power. Night Ranger...

A mixture of figuration and abstraction. Interview [Bernie Clarkson]

28/03/2015

'It was such a surprise to win the trip and exactly the sort of prize I would have chosen for myself'...

Siena in all its least-known corners (Federico Pacini)

27/03/2015

Pacini photographs the off-season, with its overcast skies and grey suburban areas....

Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

26/03/2015

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

25/03/2015

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...