Archive - Trebuchet

Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

26/07/2014

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

Entrails Vs King of Asgard Vs Secret Cutter

25/07/2014

Metal is a means of escape, perhaps even transcendence; its extremity allowing an explosion of raw passion and primal emotions...

Wolves in the Throne Room : Celestite

23/07/2014

One gets the sense that Wolves in the Throne Room are soundtracking the Joseph Campbell monomyth of their own lives, but rather than a Disneyesque prog version, they’re going deeper. ...

Knifeworld : The Unravelling

22/07/2014

Fans of Zappa should find a lot to like about this record, as should anyone who thinks there should be more bassoons in rock. ...

Takahito Irie : Interview

21/07/2014

I like the Sci-fi stuff. We always harbour desire and imagination for future life, and humans are making it real....

Loitered Lens : Gold Lake

20/07/2014

Photos of Gold Lake at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen...

Singapore’s Library Board Pulps Books

19/07/2014

Should the library be allowed to impose a moralistic "pro-family" (anti-LGBTQ) policy over its public access collections and withdraw those books which do not reflect those so-called "community...

Neil Gaiman at the Barbican

18/07/2014

For an hour or so, we could almost taste the wetted air of foggy heaths and breathe the scent of mythical caves....

Applied Carpe Diem – Living and Dying with ALS

17/07/2014

To fully appreciate life, we also need to understand and appreciate death...

Contemporary Sculpture, Zabludowicz Collection

16/07/2014

At the Zabludowicz Collection, it is not just our perception of different media that is challenged, but also our relationships to time, scale, colour, form and materials...

The Pearl Harts : The Garage, Islington [Live]

15/07/2014

The Pearl Harts, a tenacious, rock hungry duo opening the show for Kagoule....

Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld

14/07/2014

If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard....

Loitered Lens : Twin Atlantic

13/07/2014

Photos of Twin Atlantic live at the Hospital Club, 8th July 2014...

Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

12/07/2014

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

Application : System Fork

11/07/2014

Fascinating hybrid forms that don't fit easily into genres, but operate along a fluid ambient/electronica/electro spectrum...

3 Teeth [Album Review]

10/07/2014

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

NILE [Live]

09/07/2014

Egyptian mythology-themed death metallers NILE get necrotic in Southampton....

The Festival Burner

08/07/2014

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

Loitered Lens : Othon

06/07/2014

Othon - 'a joyous celebration with a meze of cultural references'. Photos ...

Tav Falco’s Urania Descending [Film]

05/07/2014

Grab the chance to lurk in the swampwaters of Tav Falco's imagination at the London premiere of his latest film: Urania Descending....

Time for the Twitter Bubble to Burst

05/07/2014

If your Twitter row is resulting in someone being fired, imprisoned or put at risk, it is time to get some perspective on your internet use...

Fourth of July Spitroast

04/07/2014

There's a whole lot of meat between the rooter and the tooter so that means there's little point in getting it on unless the whole neighbourhood is coming...

Finntroll (and Friends). [Album Reviews]

03/07/2014

The album is perhaps best seen as an intro to the band’s early to mid era - all polkas, accordia, kazoos, strange insect noises and trolls (lots of trolls)....

Othon : The Garage [Live]

02/07/2014

the musical equivalent of opening a fairy tale pop-up book and watching the characters jump out and dance around your head...

Alt-Fest Organiser Dominic Void [Interview]

02/07/2014

Promising edgy art, truly creative sideshows, and oddball theatre, Alt-Fest is more than just an alternative music festival. Dominic Void explains all....