Nick Soulsby, Author at Trebuchet

Underdogs Will Rise, Biography as Music

05/10/2020

A Review of James Kennedy "Noise Damage: My Life As a Rock’N’ Roll Underdog" (Lightning Books, 2020)...

Black Sabbath: There’s No Rock ‘n’ Roll in Reading the Classics

13/07/2020

If you missed Black Sabbath in their heyday, there’s no reason to go back to the original songs or doff your cap to their hallowed creators....

Always-On, All-the-Time: COVID in the World of 24/7 News

01/07/2020

Two decades into a fundamentally new media environment, we’re still discovering the impact of the Internet on the information we consume — COVID-19 exposes some of the damage done....

Tyranny of the Beat Pt. II

29/10/2018

Imagine how free and relieved we might feel if, just for a time, we could lose the ticking clock and there was no pulse haunting us?...

The Tyranny of the Beat Pt. I

24/10/2018

Much is made of the speed of musical evolution, the idea that the walls have exploded and we can see through into near-unlimited possibility… It’s a lie....