Archive - Trebuchet

Loitered Lens : Mariachi El Bronx

26/12/2014

Christmas, Mariachi-style. Mariachi El Bronx, Photos...

Blockheads and Wilko Johnson

25/12/2014

The Blockheads played a great mix of old and new. The crowd bounced, Hussey snarled, Watt-Roy dripped and Wilko Johnson strutted a new lease of life...

Fish : Sub89, Reading [Live]

24/12/2014

With Fish giving indications that this may well be his final tour of club venues on this sort of scale, it's a case of "see him while you can"...

Loitered Lens: Dedwardians

23/12/2014

Photos of Dedwardians at the Finsbury on December 18th...

Walking With Plants

22/12/2014

Is a Native American Church peyote ceremony less shamanistic than a Neo-Pagan sweat-lodge simply by virtue of its using a teacher plant? ...

Loitered Lens : Hacktivist

21/12/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”B/dropcap-Boy posturing and errant guitars, tech-metal-grime-rock hybrid Hactivist performed a bruising show at London’s 02 Academy on...

Bl=ndfolds, The Waiting Room [Live]

20/12/2014

Bl=ndfolds' music is quite far removed from both VVV and The Valves, in that it is a darker, scuzzier electronica with growling vocals from singer Paraic....

About Political Correctness

19/12/2014

Political correctness is not actually about quelling ‘freedom of speech’ for the sake of defending others from offense....

Aynsley Lister, Farnham Maltings [Live]

18/12/2014

His brand of melodic rock-infused blues might not be particularly edgy or on-trend, but is unlikely to go out of fashion anytime soon ...

Sigmar Polke at the Tate: Where Mao meets the Sausage Eater

17/12/2014

Polke’s humour wasn’t sarcastic, it was a form of rebellion. His volatile artistic tendencies that leave us breathless in awe were his way of shedding each and every conceptual artistic form....

(No) Token Gestures

16/12/2014

The circumstances of its birth have made Token determined to follow its own agenda and pay no attention to passing trends, focussing on what it sees as the most important elements of what it calls...

The Last Honky Tonk in Nashville

15/12/2014

You’ll get a solid handshake, by men who believe a firm handshake can tell a lot...

Loitered Lens : Portico

14/12/2014

The sublunary tones of an album featuring vocal performances from Jamie Woon, Jonno McCleery and Alt-J's Joe Newman found their complement in the atmospheric setting...

11 Months Old and Jailed By Israel

13/12/2014

With its brutalization of children, Israel is sowing the seeds for a bloody and hate filled future....

Loitered Lens : Robbie Boyd

12/12/2014

Big hook folk-pop, Robbie Boyd at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, December 10th. Photos....

Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

11/12/2014

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

Your Band Plays Bloodstock! How?

10/12/2014

Details of a raft of options for you to get your band to Bloodstock....

Suicide Girls : Interview

10/12/2014

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, certainly more than three cookie-cutter formulas, and there is nothing wrong with feeling sexy and confident about your body. - Interview...

Love Buzzard, Shacklewell Arms

09/12/2014

Launching their single 'Give it Some Range', Love Buzzard brought the blues to The Shacklewell Arms (and faces)...

On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

09/12/2014

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]

08/12/2014

One of the major successes of de Freston's imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday...

Loitered Lens : Toyah

07/12/2014

Photos of Toyah at the O2, Islington....

Luna Rossa : Secrets and Lies

06/12/2014

Luna Rossa increasingly feels not so much "Panic Room unplugged" as a separate parallel band in its own right. ...

Taylor Momsen, Acoustic [Live]

05/12/2014

When she chooses, Momsen has the ability to convey emotion, forgivably narcissistic emotion, but emotion nonetheless....

Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall

04/12/2014

A rich document of a remarkable period in the life of the city....

Suspicion : Jerwood Encounters

03/12/2014

Much of the exhibition literature talks of the legacy of film and photography, but the internet and its spawned cacophony of imagery and new modes of looking is clearly also a player in this...

Loitered Lens : Avatar

02/12/2014

Photos of Avatar (band) live at London's Islington Academy, Nov. 27th ...

Bigelf : The Garage

02/12/2014

This was one of those gigs that prompts the usage of words like "Progtastic"....

paintbrushes by freedigitalphotos.net and Simon Howden

Anselm Kiefer : Royal Academy

01/12/2014

When Kiefer is at his best we don’t need the leaden symbolism of diamonds, not when the mud and filth of paint can carry the weight of time and gold...