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Crass – The Last Supper

19/11/2011

In 2007, I got a call asking me if I wanted to play at a punk festival in the North of England. I didn't even have a band at the time, hadn't played a gig in ages. It took me totally by...

Shifting Sands of Mars

19/11/2011

Mars – so close yet so far. As reported elsewhere in Trebuchet, NASA's plans to land a car-sized exploration vehicle on the planet will soon, all things going to plan, provide details on...

Acid Mothers Temple – special acoustic show

18/11/2011

Last minute announcement! Tomorrow night – Saturday 19 November – we will host the first ever acoustic set performed outside of Japan by legendary Japanese psych-rock ensemble ACID...

Francois & The Atlas Mountains – Les Plus Beaux single preview

18/11/2011

Live dates announced for early 2012 & Free download of Piscine remix from Outer Limits Recordings Les Plus Beaux will be released as the second single from Fránçois & The...

Dance Music Distributor Removes Catalogue from Spotify

17/11/2011

Musicians love to present a 'everything's fine, we're only in it for the music anyway' face to the public. It saves them from the accusation of being money-grubbing and, by the mere...

Dirty Cash for the Dull Stuff, Plastic for the Fantastic

16/11/2011

People who pay cash focus on different aspects of products than people who use credit cards, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Although previous research has already...

Occupy Wall Street Evictions – Live Feed

15/11/2011

Who knows how long this guy will be able to broadcast, but whilst he's still going, it's worth watching. The most lucid and least sensational of the #OWS footage so far: Free desktop...

She Don’t Want No Scrub – Sexytime for Spiders

14/11/2011

How very pleasant. Female spiders, not only famous for killing and eating their hapless male counterparts after sexual congress, also demand payment for the pleasure. The better the present, the...

Photo Essay – Judith Scott at Museum of Everything

14/11/2011

Museum of Everything showcases outsider art and people not usually recognised as artists. I loved the Judith Scott exhibition, and especially intriguing were the x-rays of the...

Killer Solar Flares (and no, it’s not another prog rock article)

13/11/2011

OK, is it just me, or does receiving a press release from NASA insisting that, no, absolutely not, there is NO chance that huge solar flares will rip the Earth to pieces and toast us all in a fiery...

Daylight Savings Time – Bad for your kids’ health?

12/11/2011

Clocks spring forward, then fall back. The mnemonic of choice for one of the least popular aspects of Autumn. Resetting clocks and losing an hours daylight in the evening, just so we can have an...

The Walls of St Pauls by Kailas Elmer 2013

Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

10/11/2011

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

Oh You Minx! Women, Roman Mosaics, and Stereotypes

09/11/2011

Stirring it. The cause of wars, famine, plague, pestilence, disease and just about everything else. Women, they're a terrible bunch. Stereotypes of women as troublemakers date back into the misty...

My Hummer Doesn’t Cause Climate Change – It’s Those Damned Jellyfish!

07/11/2011

This one looks like it came from the petrochemicals lobby. It's all a matter of perspective really. If you live on a low-lying island in the Tuamoto group and find that your ocean view has...

FZV – Soundsump

07/11/2011

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

Achy Breaky Heart? Not surprised. It’s rubbish for your ears AND your chances of survival.

06/11/2011

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. We all hope never to need it, or to have to apply it. However, in an emergency situation, just which song would you play on your iPod before leaning in and doing mouth...

ET forgets to turn off the lights

05/11/2011

Don't you just love scientists? It's a nice idea – to look for the lights of alien cities, but citing Galileo seems a touch grandiose for such a piece of schoolboy logic. And aren't...

GWAR Guitarist Found Dead

04/11/2011

Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus of GWAR has been found dead, aged 34. A member of GWAR since 2002, Smoot was found dead this morning as the band prepared to travel to their next tour date. No cause...

Artists: what are we worth?

04/11/2011

The economic crisis has meant an economic armageddon for artists. What are we worth? was a panel discussion led by DACS and Artquest that considered how artists can create income in support of their...

Controversy over reopening the ‘Sistine Chapel’ of Stone Age art

03/11/2011

A perennial topic in Spain – whether or not to allow the public access to fragile areas, which are nonetheless looked upon as part of the country's public patrimony. Plus there's the...

Celestial Pac-Man Grows Teeth

02/11/2011

Honestly, astrophysicists. They're a dry lot. Pac-Man, really? Theyr'e obviously blinded by familiarity with the true beauty of the cosmos. Clearly, it's actually a recumbent yellow...

Orcas Need Holidays Too

01/11/2011

Winter's homing in, the nights are getting longer, and if you were a whale, a really clever whale, you'd be thinking about swimming up to the tropics right now. Well, maybe not right now,...

I Can Resist Anything But Temptation….

31/10/2011

Resisting temptation? Trying to give something up? Trick is not to think about it. There you are, we obviously needed scientists to tell us that thinking about a cold beer on a hot day just makes it...

Mozart Ideal For Rectal Probing

30/10/2011

See, no-one mentions anything about how the patients felt about it. Personally, I'd be yelling out exactly where Wolfgang Ammadeus could stick his Magic Flute. Physicians who listen to Mozart...

Mobilizing Society, Quickly

29/10/2011

MIT researchers demonstrate ways to mobilize society quickly. Hint: they paid them. Last December UK students marched on Westminster to protest against a dramatic increase in tuition fees. Despite...

Organic matter found in Space

28/10/2011

It's not quite extraterrestrial life, but it's certainly a step towards finding something of that ilk. Stars, it appears, can create complex organic compounds. Complex compounds such as?...

Open Letter to Simon Cowell Gathers Pace

27/10/2011

Happy Ending Update! ITV Producers have announced that X-Factor band "Rhythmix" will change their name. Hooray! Original news piece follows Simon Cowell and childrens' charity Rhythmix....

From Shiny Things to Silliness – Frieze Overview

27/10/2011

Frieze was a fantastic opportunity to see a so many of the world’s top artists and galleries in one place. With a multitude of styles and genres on show from over 170 galleries from...

Metahub – Nuit Blanche, Amiens 2011

27/10/2011

Digital Arts: Flash in the pan, light at the end of the tunnel or oncoming train wreck. Amiens, France 15th October This year saw a conjunction between digital artists in the UK and...

Catch 22 writer, Joseph Heller, enjoyed WW2

26/10/2011

Continuing with the Trebuchet-News inadvertent sub-theme in which we look at interesting letters which just happen to be for sale in prominent auction houses, today's news story concerns Joseph...

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