Archive - Trebuchet

Playing Out Desire’s Magic Theatre (Purson)

25/03/2016

Psych-rockers Purson treat the 100 Club to some oldies, as well as new material from their Desire's Magic Theatre album...

Peaty Pinots and Gamay in the Gloaming. Global Warming Moves Wine Regions North

24/03/2016

Global warming pushes wines into uncharted terroir ...

Hillary’s Hair-Trigger Partisans Versus Trump’s Smalltown Nostalgists. A Zero Sum Game

24/03/2016

In a battle between Trump and Clinton, should it come to that, no-one wins. Essay...

Useless Old Holiday Photos? Not quite. Tourist Snaps Show a Rise in Seabirds

23/03/2016

Old tourist photos show a rise in seabirds over the last century ...

Make Better Music 81: Monetizing Music

23/03/2016

Doing it for the love will only last so long. What happens when you have to eat? How to make better music, and make money doing so....

The 1-400 by Terry Kerby, Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory University of Hawai'i620

Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine

22/03/2016

Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast ...

Music rooted in a landscape, yet unapologetically synthetic. (Avalon Emmerson)

22/03/2016

Avalon Emmerson musically evokes her home state, without reducing it to Marlboro man cliches...

A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

Caliban’s Rage at the Blank Touchscreen: On Becoming a 21st Century Savage

21/03/2016

The acceleration of technology beyond the layman's ken makes us little more than blissfully ignorant slaves - should we not be noble savages instead? ...

Shawn Klush’s Elvis, With the King’s Original Band Members (Watford Colosseum)

20/03/2016

Fronting an act featuring members of Elvis Presley's own band, Shawn Klush brings the King to the Colosseum...

Loitered Lens: Stiff Little Fingers (The Forum, 2016)

20/03/2016

Never tired, never complacent, Stiff Little Fingers revved the Kentish Town Forum to the redline. Photos...

Feel the Bern if it Makes You Happy, but Don’t Hope For a Fairytale Ending

19/03/2016

Sanders as president is a dream too far, writes Phil Rockstroh from New York...

Can the Clean Fuel Movement Ketch Up With Florida’s Tomato Battery?

18/03/2016

Creative thinkers in Florida develop an innovative use for waste material - the tomato battery...

Post Punk Drone and Cultural Imperialism. (Wire)

18/03/2016

Wire - A band so good they named both a cult TV series and a snotty music magazine after them. Live review...

The Cutpurse Code. Hidden Messages in England’s Oldest Printed Bible

17/03/2016

Historian uncovers secrets of the Reformation hidden in England's oldest printed bible ...

Search Deep Inside Yourself (Surgeon)

17/03/2016

The continuing evolution of Surgeon's techno sound is apparent in a futuristic new EP. Review...

How Much for a Booty Call?! The Danger of Sentimental Purchases

16/03/2016

Beware the dewy-eyed late-night online shopping session. Love trumps budget in sentimental buys....

Freshly Polished, Forever Stomping: Stiff Little Fingers (Forum, 2016)

16/03/2016

Snapping the jumpleads to the zombie corpse of punk rock, Stiff Little Fingers sparked the Forum's assembled masses to a beer-lobbing froth....

Come to the Dark Side with Turnable Windows

15/03/2016

Inspired by frozen ponds, Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League powerhouse to address the always-vexing problem of window light...

Peeled & Raw in Los Angeles (Dani Dodge)

15/03/2016

The clash of global ideologies and armed response infiltrate the sanctity of the domestic living room in Dani Dodge's Peeled & Raw...

The Other Kind of Twitterstorm. Using Social Media for Natural Disaster Assessment

14/03/2016

Could social networks used in the assessment of damage caused by natural disasters?...

Vomit, Velour and Quizzical Quips at Islington Assembly Hall (Barry Adamson)

14/03/2016

Fresh from collaborations with luminaries as bright as Nick Cave and David Lynch, Barry Adamson blends the genres onstage in Islington. Review...

A Lesson in Hubris? Using Statistics to Predict Extreme Waves

13/03/2016

Crunching the stats to predict ship-crunching ocean events...

Loitered Lens: Greg Coulson

13/03/2016

Live at the 100 Club, Greg Coulson raged rampant across the stage at the iconic London venue. Photos...

No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived

12/03/2016

Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time...

Losers, Lawnmowers and The Grave of Jack Kerouac

12/03/2016

Hitting the road for the birthday of Jack Kerouac, Scott Laudati wends a weary way to the writer's graveside...

What Colour is Your Ark? Global Warming Makes the Wet Wetter, and the Dry Wetter Too

11/03/2016

With global warming, not only do the wet places get wetter, but the driest areas get wetter too...

Genocide By a Thousand Tory Cuts. (Employment and Support Allowance Slashed)

11/03/2016

Make no mistake about it: Persistent Tory cuts to disability benefits are a gradual, unglamorous, and barely reported-upon genocide. Essay...

Feeling Flush? How Collecting Rainwater Could Save You Cash

10/03/2016

Drexel research looks at feasibility of rainwater recycling in 4 major US cities...

After the Revolution, Beyond the Randian Superhero.

10/03/2016

Should we be grubbing for the favours of the benevolent altruist, or forging a fairer world for all? Essay on the false prophets of philanthropy...

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