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Raspberry – Oval Theatre.

17/02/2011

A bunch of misfit spectres led by a cockney guardian angel. Peculiar and wise Raspberry doesn’t tell the tale, it screams it at you. The Oval Theatre is a tiny place, filled with the promise of...

Trick of the Eye, Trap for the Body

16/02/2011

A review of the exhibition Elusive and the instillation Floor Zero at Camberwell College of Art. It is often difficult to attend art shows associated with centres of learning without a sense of...

Fade to Black by Bill Hale 1982-84

14/02/2011

Metallica have been the kings of hard rock for three decades and are still kicking ass and taking names the way they did as fresh faced metallers all those years ago. It’s a testament to their...

Minimalism is a curious concept. In the current musical climate it usually manifests itself in the form of scratchy, barely-there snatches of sound and the vapour trails of vague melodies. It usually...

Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi

09/02/2011

When Anna Calvi sings 'Desire' I feel it. Deep down within in the most dramatic histrionic part of my heart there is a swelling. The waves of reverb and brash surf guitar match the oceanic...

Ecological Mutiny: The Paintings of Adam Bloom.

07/02/2011

Adam Bloom’s paintings of blood and bone are a strange attractor, holding the viewer quiet and nervous with their dreamlike and symbolic depictions of humanity. The imagery is at once horrific...

Salem in Stoke Newington: Delaine Le Bas

06/02/2011

It is a rare occasion when one encounters a Minnie Mouse doll and is simultaneously delighted and extremely disturbed. Welcome to Delaine Le Bas’s Witchunt: a riot of joyful colour and texture,...

Shea Seger – Borderline

03/02/2011

From the heights to the home, the light remains undimmed. Shea Seger has had a long strange road on her musical journey. In 2001 the plucky Texan waif seemed set for a long life on the broad stage;...

White Wizzard – Over the Top

02/02/2011

Stand up for metal From the whiplash sustained during the opening avalanche of riffage it is painfully apparent that White Wizzard's debut release ‘Over the Top’ means to raze banal...

Martin Simpson – The Green Note

31/01/2011

A guitarist, a storyteller and a legend walked into a bar. This is no joke, this is Martin Simpson. He held the room with his words, singing about rebellion, war and romance. We travelled the world...

Loving Noise: Different Class Radio

30/01/2011

Different Class Radio is an internet radio station that slips quality under the commercial radar, discovering new talent, and bringing a critical focus to past masters on the verge of obscurity. More...

Balloon and Needle: Cafe OTO

29/01/2011

As Avant-Garde as all that: Korean sonic collective Balloon and Needle distort the medium. Cracked electronics, chin stroking and a serious aversion to anything fun, Avant-garde music can be a real...

How do I look: Robert Mapplethorpe?

27/01/2011

Glossy photographs in glossy frames create the perfect environment for glossy fashionistas in Alison Jaques gallery. ‘Curated by Scissor Sisters’. Need the gay fashion pack know more?...

RadioSeed – There Has To Be More

26/01/2011

Happy, clappy ambience is one thing but There Has To Be More. Hence why RadioSeeds’s soft electronic debut is something of a mixed bag. An album with enough foresight can really give you an...

Stateless – Matilda

24/01/2011

Who are Stateless? Do they even know? Just how much can be crammed into a band’s sound? Can anyone try to cover, absorb and assimilate everything in their lives, minds and playlists while still...

Wagon Christ – Manalyze This

18/01/2011

Wagon Christ AKA Luke Vibert taking globally warming into account has prognosticated that this summer is going to be blistering. Releasing this fun and fair hearted dance floor filler early enough to...

Sunken Foal – Mother of God

16/01/2011

Progressive releases have shown a development of much of the same from Sunken Foal, competent and well produced genre records. His version of electronica while technically interesting doesn’t...

Forget the Art World in the Oubliette Art House

14/01/2011

Art house squatters the Oubliette transform a Soho ex-nightclub into an emporium of delights. The Oubliette is a curious initiative. When I first encountered it two years ago it was in an old embassy...

AXXONN – Let’s Get It Straight

13/01/2011

Break me off some! AXXONN releases the happiest electro-doom record ever. Resplendently retrorama, Let’s Get It Straight mounts cathedral sized melodies with the light touch of heavy industry....

Rose Kemp – Golden Shroud

11/01/2011

As everybody recovers from their Christmas overindulgence, I recover from the musical overdose that is Golden Shroud. Nothing this depressing has ever made me so jovial, Rose Kemp has devoured my...

To Cast A Shadow – In Memory Of

10/01/2011

To Cast A Shadow - In Memory Of...

Stateless – Assassinations

06/01/2011

A review of Stateless – Assassinations...

Henry Rollins: Student Protests Are Great

05/01/2011

Henry Rollins talks to Trebuchet about politics and protest ...

You are Here – Dutch Art

30/12/2010

As snow blizzards down in Bloomsbury, a bunch of Dutch art devotees gather for mulled wine and muffins in a miniature white cube style gallery. With such extreme weather outside, viewers gaze on...

Beyond Histrionics: Film Heroes with Epic Attitude

24/12/2010

Who crushed Leonardo's balls? Made Jackie Chan cry? Let Angelina watch her husband die? These questions and more will be answered. This week, due to thoughts of not providing an answer to last...

Spokes – Everyone I Ever Met

23/12/2010

Is it me, or is music getting bigger by the year? Now we have completed another decade, it is staggering to look back and realise just what seismic shifts we have experienced. The first half of the...

Chromagain – Any Colour We Liked

22/12/2010

Electronic and experimental dark disco from Italian rogues, but do they still have what it takes? Oh synth, synth, synth! How I love thee. Let me count the ways… except I had trouble counting...

Small is Beautiful

19/12/2010

Small is Beautiful XXVII and Gyunel Rustamova in Cork Street galleries, Dry the River and Clare Maguire at The Social. 14th December One small step for artists but a giant leap for free arts...

Mr Oizo – Moustache (Half A Scissor) re-release

18/12/2010

Originally released on the renowned F.Com records in 2005 this album has achieved a sort of notoriety as the reason that Mr Oizo (Quentin Dupiex) left the label. Six years later Flying Lotus’s...

Andreya Triana – Far Closer

17/12/2010

Mixes by Mr Scruff and Tokimonsta Ninja Tune, 7th Feb 2011 Bonobo’s soul-songstress-for-hire and the voice that brings Flying Lotus down to earth, Andreya Triana has attempted to place herself...

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