Author: A. Tonnerre

London based writer and photographer whose work has graced the grimy pages of most UK music publications. Marshmallowed with age he dreams of touring the Cairngorms and writing romantic prose about semantic pathways. As it is, until that cliché he is this one.

Interdimensional Craft: Gerry Rafferty and Ásgeir 

18/01/2023

Transcendence in Gerry Rafferty’s Rest in Blue and Asgeir’s Time on My Hands ...

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Richard Thompson, Guitar/Vocals, Album Cover

New Folk for Old Tunes: Richard Thompson

07/04/2022

A review of the rerelease of Richard Thompson's 1976 collection of rare and unreleased material (Guitar/Vocal)...

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IP080 Ophelias - Bare Bodkin REV

The Beauty of Packaging

24/01/2022

Owning something physical, the open-eyed landscape of the tactile imagination....

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Guitarist Bossk at the Garage London by Kailas

Chanting Guitars and Dusk Distortions: Bossk

15/12/2021

Photos and review of underground post-metal band Bossk as they deliver sermons from the electric mount at London’s Garage (15.12.21)...

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Ferocious Dog, Nells, London, 21st October 2021

Loitered Lens: Ferocious Dog

23/10/2021

Carrying the tradition of English folk-rock... with grit and bite...

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Brotherly Hate: The Dread Archetypes of Kane & Able

08/10/2021

Comics and graphic novels: Is anyone pushing the edge of sequential art? ...

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Musical Adventures for an Opening 2021.

04/06/2021

Trebuchet’s subjective musical round up looks at releases by Divide and Dissolve, Memoriam, Stone Giants/Amon Tobin, LNZNDRF, Kaktus Einarsson, Melvins, Ya Tseen, Tomahawk, DJINN, Godspeed You...

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Photo by Julie Nymann

Directing Enter Art Fair

03/06/2021

Trebuchet interviews Enter Art director Julie Alf about the inspiration behind the fair....

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The Definite Line of Emma Coyle

06/03/2021

Emma Coyle's current figurative work focuses on contemporary fashion magazine imagery to produce painterly paintings of a Fine Art standard...

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James Johnston Charcoal Drawing

Big Star Falls in We Travel Time

05/02/2021

The giant shifts in chords and sonic layers creates classical headspaces and feels orchestral in its depth and shifting subtlety. We travel Time...

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Holiday Song - Sclavunos

Holiday Song: Jim Sclavunos Supports Endangered Venues With Masterpiece.

04/01/2021

Renaissance musician Jim Sclavunos hints at a solo album with the single Holiday Song....

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James Johnston _ by Joe Lyn Portrait 2

We Travel Time: James Johnston and Steve Gullick

30/11/2020

Where music and visual art meet. The talents of Steve Gullick and James Johnston combine on We Travel Time to poignant effect. ...

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Divide and Dissolve by Su Cassiano

Black, Indigenous, and Loud

18/11/2020

Powerful and political Maori and Cherokee experimental group Divide and Dissolve provides a soundtrack for collective resistance. ...

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Ursula Andress by Terry O'Neill

Shot To Fame: Remembering Terry O’Neill

16/11/2020

'One Year On' Box Galleries highlights the late photographer Terry O'Neill's eternal talent. ...

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Photography, Light and After Love

13/11/2020

An interview with The Heat Inc.'s Jon Dodd about the power of photography and the eternal light of Rock & Roll. ...

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Ricinn

Uncomfortable Music

24/10/2020

Pushing beyond warm nostalgic genres, Trebuchet guides you through the autumnal mental fog to a more mysterious place. Featuring: Mr Bungle, Napalm Death, Ricinn, Penny Rimbaud and Bunita Marcus...

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So This Is Now - Video Still- Bandante 5

So This is Bandante

08/09/2020

An interview with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds guitarist George Vjestica and artist Timothy Shepard about Bandante, their audiovisual collaboration. ...

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LA Priest Gene

West Coast Loitering in the Loneliest Funk of LA Priest

23/07/2020

A review of LA Priest's Gene, a masterpiece of funky isolation. Made on a homemade drum machine of the same name, there is a lot to appreciate here....

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Figueroa - Album Cover

Figueroa: Amon Tobin’s Magical Isolation

17/07/2020

The World As We Know It from Amon Tobin project Figueroa is a fresh take on psych folk that captives, inspires and defies expectation. ...

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Amon Tobin Nomark

Amon Tobin’s Two Finger Step Out With Nomark

26/06/2020

An interview with electronic pioneer Amon Tobin on his venture away from seminal label Ninja Tune to stand by his own beats. ...

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Compressing Parliamentary Love Time with Actress

19/04/2019

Interview with electronic musician Actress: Reworking Stockhausen around a contemporary issue ...

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YoungGods © Kailas

Delight In Neon, Glitz And Reconstruction

25/03/2019

Live review of seminal industrial group The Young Gods March 23rd 2019 Islington, London. ...

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Golnaz Fathi: Calligraphy, movement in Iranian art

29/12/2018

The art of Iran is intrinsically bound with religion and the calligraphic interpretation of their sacred texts. Golnaz Fathi...

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MC50 / Mc5 2018, London

Loitered Lens: MC50 (MC5) – Brexit City’s Burning

17/12/2018

12th November 2018. MC5 (MC50) Live at Shepherds Bush Empire, London. ...

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MC50 / MC5 2018

Revolutionary Lamps Shine on the Champs

16/12/2018

MC50 at Shepherds Bush Empire, London. 2018. Live Review...

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Live shots from Killing Joke, Roundhouse, 17.11.18

Loitered Lens: Killing Joke Roundhouse 2018

14/12/2018

Live shots from Killing Joke, Roundhouse, 17.11.18...

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Killing Joke at Roundhouse

Killing set marred by Joke sound. 

13/12/2018

Too much sound around. Killing Joke's great set all right for some at the Roundhouse. 17th November 2018. ...

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Uncommon Errors, Quiet Faces in the Screaming Crowd

20/08/2018

Trebuchet talks to SiKth's Mikey (Mikee) Goodman on creating visions in sound....

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Creative Psychology, Mysticism, and the Way Within

07/07/2018

In the instance of the human body consciousness experiences these forces and their equilibrium or disequilibrium as a sense of either wellbeing or sickness. ...

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Aural Satisfaction and Broken Beats [Duran Duran Duran Interview]

01/11/2017

Philly Blunts to Thrice-Named Breakcore: the rise of Ed Flis's Duran Duran Duran...

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