SWP, Author at Trebuchet

Trebuchet Podcast 1 – California Devils: Rock, Evil, Sex in 60’s USA

03/09/2020

A podcast for the adventurous creative...

The Hat Man and The Korg

15/01/2018

Saturday night music at the Lansdowne pub in Lewes, church of the unchurched, and my (low) expectations are scattered to the four winds by the performance of Robert Lashmar AKA Rhythmic/AKA The Hat...

Comic Creators, Ex-Presidents and Oprah

12/01/2018

Elderly males can get frisky. It’s a post-pubescent flare before death....

Crusty Hero Makes Bad: Lost in Vagueness

17/11/2017

When the wild side is your USP, don't be surprised when all hell breaks loose...

And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049

10/10/2017

Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot?...

The Art Life (of David Lynch) – A Movie Review

09/08/2017

The Art Life tells us no more of David Lynch's life than he wants us to know....

Voudoun and the Book of The Law

07/04/2017

Sloppy thinking and lack of spiritual purpose has allowed agents of discord to invade our shared idea space...

Walls Come Tumblin’: Jenny & The Mexicats

14/02/2017

Anglo-Madri-Mexi, Sinuous and Sexy - Jenny & the Mexicats hit the Con Club in Lewes...

Smoke, Mirrors and the Gratuitous Gape Shot

21/01/2017

One look at the packet, and you'll definitely need a quick gasper....

Consumed By Cronenberg

16/10/2016

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far...

Shark Cars and Metal Guitars (Interview)

18/07/2016

Steve 'Snips' Parsons interviews Chris Spedding...

Yearning for Pet Sounds

02/06/2016

Predating instant gratification by decades, Pet Sounds expresses a yearning which still makes for emotional listening. Essay...

Lovecraft Under Will. Liber Al Vel Legis and the Sharp Beak of Horus (H.P. Lovecraft)

07/04/2016

In a century of terror, perhaps Lovecraft's visions make more sense than ever...

Post Punk Drone and Cultural Imperialism. (Wire)

18/03/2016

Wire - A band so good they named both a cult TV series and a snotty music magazine after them. Live review...

The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)

30/01/2016

Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends...

The Death Ray Goes Underground (Comix, S Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb)

13/11/2015

Underground comix gave space to bold and innovative talents who thrived in the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere following the summer of love....

Doing the Cartoon Nasty: Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt (Part Two)

05/11/2015

Bazooka Joe is a one eyed boy who heads a secret society and is named after a powerful projectile weapon. He was given life by an ex-pornographer then wrapped in wax and sold to children....

Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt

27/10/2015

By the roaring twenties a cinematic lens was steadily streaming increasingly deranged and lusty images out into the hinterlands of dullsville USA...

Fraudulent Four: It’s time to sue 20th Century Fox for Fantastic Four

24/08/2015

A hopeless mess without discernible form, sympathetic characters or clear narrative structure...

A time-traveller’s log : The Stele of Revealing

09/04/2015

Over the 3 days comprising the 8th, 9th and 10th of April 2015 Thelemites around the world will celebrate the transmission of Liber Al Vegis to Aleister Crowley in a Cairo hotel room....

Thunder in the Distant Past

13/10/2014

For my money, along with The Pistols and The Clash, The Heartbreakers were the only outfit to really ‘get it’, whatever ‘it’ was in 1977....

Machine People at The Sticky Frog

25/08/2014

They grabbed the audience from the first chord and refused to let them go, playing only original material and building a set that couldn’t terminate without some random violence...

Shamate : China’s Secret Family

29/04/2014

Something purposeful and stubbornly cryptic is obviously gathering pace inside the communist walls of the Middle Kingdom....

Redford’s Condor – America’s Falcon

14/04/2014

Captain America – The Winter Soldier is Marvel’s latest attempt to make their pen on paper characters effective in the movie business. They succeed more than they fail and the new film is both...

A picture of Interzone, an event celebrating William S Burroughs

Interzone at the Barrier

13/02/2014

There were around 250 people milling around the makeshift bunker and most of them had taken the trouble to dress for excess....

Death on the Fault Line

10/02/2014

Torture, blood sacrifice and sinister messages extracted from Beatles lyrics. The final surges of the California Death Ray. ...

A picture of SWP / Masked Man with a group of cosplayers

Loving the Cosplay

06/02/2014

I do it for the same reason other cosplayers do it - to escape from the tyranny of ‘self’. ...

Interzone : Celebrating William S Burroughs

29/01/2014

He was a writer who wanted to rub out the word and when the word is gone only the image remains. The codex – the control formula – pictures of ‘what will be’ carved into stone....

My Dark Song : Bobby Beausoleil

03/01/2014

Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson. The collision of two dominant personalities would certainly be the trigger for the first and, perhaps, all three of the gory and ritualistic Manson Family...

666 Degrees of Separation

20/12/2013

Manson has lost some of his ability to exercise the media for his own sinister purpose, but still retains the sanguine air of a devil in temporary chains....

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