Society Archives Page 27 of 32

UFOMammut: instinctual tones – interview.

28/05/2012

With a name that combines the weighty presence of an extinct mammal and the fancy of controversial space vehicles expect herbal smoke tinged religious commentary, long hair, and unhurried...

Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall Street

26/05/2012

In the Name of My Father: Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall Street On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS...

Students and Strops. An Academic in Africa

24/05/2012

'she was overtaken with flouncy teenage indignation'. DR meets the students. The students are turning out to be the usual mix of committed, disinterested, pleasant, arrogant and outright...

The Reasoning: Interview

23/05/2012

Editor's Note. Writer Tim Hall has covered a few acts for Trebuchet that can be broadly described as progressive rock. It's a label not all bands seem willing to accept, since it's...

The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the Hungry Ghosts of a Corporate State Pt. 2

19/05/2012

In a nation defined by vast wealth disparity and the deprivation it causes others on the planet, by means of impoverished lives and ecological devastation, taking more than one's share...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Preview]

18/05/2012

Alexei Monroe looks ahead to Europe's annual descent into darkness at Leipzig's Wave Gotik Treffen…. Leipzig's annual Wave Gotik Treffen a.k.a WGT is one of Europe's most...

Theatre of Trolls – Masquerade Ball

16/05/2012

'The wretched, the beautiful, the horned-nosed and sweet-bosomed soon strutted and strolled before me.' Andrew Maitland Southern falls hard for a comely bust. It's not every day the...

The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the Hungry Ghosts of a Corporate State

12/05/2012

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural...

Icarus Line: You make your own L.A. reality: interview

11/05/2012

"You make your own L.A. reality "Trebuchet interviews Joe Cardamone, lead singer of The Icarus Line to talk through life and touring. ...

‘Offensive’, ‘Repugnant’: An Academic in Africa

08/05/2012

'the senators asked to vote on this bill must have been mystified', DR reports on the fight to make homosexuality in Nigeria even more illegal. I read an interesting story the other...

Band and Brand: The View from the Corporation

06/05/2012

Music and arts fans are used now to seeing the debate on artist sponsorship portrayed from the point of view of the artist. Sacha Taylor-Cox voices it from the brand's side. What is less...

On The Nature Of Self-Defeating Convictions

05/05/2012

A missive to an estranged southern friend Although I have resided in New York City for many years, I was born in the Deep South. On a daily basis, I negotiate Manhattan's gridded streets and...

Mo Fox: Poems

03/05/2012

A Thousand Pockets Ah well, I remember you kissed weirdly because you used hold your big cat eyes open, watching me as we did it. I used close mine but opened them to watch you as we did it....

Slimey Guys and Cuddling Homophobes: An Academic in Africa

30/04/2012

'when she walked out she did so limping heavily and ostentatiously, when she’d walked in not limping at all'. Things get a bit 'domestic' in Nigeria. In other news, Julius has...

Living Beyond the ‘Folded Lie’: Part Two

28/04/2012

Wall Street is again flush with the electronic facsimile of the stuff once known as money. But this is a Botox Recovery Both economic depression and so-called psychological depression are engendered...

Tribalism is a luxury

26/04/2012

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize this very week, Lisa Ansell brings a very personal set of convictions to her writing. More than simple commentary, Ansell's own circumstances imbue her politics...

Living Beyond the ‘Folded Lie’: Part One

21/04/2012

Wall Street is again flush with the electronic facsimile of the stuff once known as money. But this is a Botox Recovery Living Beyond the 'Folded Lie': On Life Before and After Collapse Wall...

Music in the Age of No-Effort

19/04/2012

‘97,751 albums released in a year’, Jeremy Schlosberg examines the implications of music market gluttony. I was talking to a music industry acquaintance on the phone not long ago and he...

An Academic in Africa: Red Lights and Runarounds

16/04/2012

Last week I almost got arrested. Actually, that’s not quite true. It would be more accurate to say that I drove a policeman around for about half an hour asking him to arrest me...

Rival Sons: Jay Buchanan Interview

09/04/2012

Trebuchet interviews Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan discussing music life and the million of chances in between....

Reclaiming The Commons: Part 2

07/04/2012

Phil Rockstroh follows up on last week's essay, and applies poetic thinking to the quagmire that is 21st century living. Relentlessly, from early childhood on, our hopes and longings are subject...

Metal, music, money and merch: for Malefice – life is a five letter word.

02/04/2012

Metal, music, money and merch: for Malefice - life is a five letter word....

Reclaiming The Commons: Part 1

31/03/2012

The USA gets its own version of the Criminal Justice Bill, only there are no riots, merely more faces buried in iPhone screens. Reclaiming The Commons: Human Lessons in the Era of Corporatism and...

Prayers and Promises: An Academic in Africa

29/03/2012

Our resident screamer has been upping the ante of late and I heard a live performance for the first time the other night. George had just finished moving to the third bedroom (a saga in itself,...

Furyon: Interview

24/03/2012

Furyon singer/frontman Matt Mitchell explains all to Trebuchet interview Meltem. ...

‘Someone who has seen the world, and doesn’t much like it’ : An Academic in Africa.

23/03/2012

Trebuchet's Academic in Africa is amazed by the talents of Nigeria's ambulatory merchants and sedentary guardsmen. Plus nostalgic reflection on Wine Gums. There are a huge number of things...

Love on a Pillow: [DVD]

21/03/2012

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this week is the curiously titled Love on a Pillow. (Its original title, Le Repos du Gerrier, or Warrior's Rest, made no sense either.) Also curious is the fact...

Wilfred [Comedy Series]: Review

19/03/2012

Every now and then, a very silly concept will come along and sweep you off your feet, rendering you genuinely mournful when it's all over. A dog that thinks it's human, is fiercely possessive...

Anomie Belle: Interview

14/03/2012

Scheduled for release on April 2nd, Yppah's Eighty One is an album of glossy synth texture and crunching gravel percussion. Reflecting Yppah's move to southern California to be closer to the...

On Regaining a Spirit of Defiance: Part Two

11/03/2012

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T.S. Eliot The vehemence of the imagination motivates. It rages against oppression, as it, in equal...

Category: Society

Latest

Art Prints

Events

Our weekly newsletter

Got a Question?

Latest Articles

Categories