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The Overcoat : Pleasance Theatre

12/06/2012

The Overcoat is a Finnish Play, at the Pleasance Theatre in London, produced by the Scottish theatre company ACE. It was performed at Edinburgh Festival last year and is part of a project to bring...

King Mob Rock Cruise

10/06/2012

When my band King Mob was invited to play on a ‘rock cruise’ I had no idea what to expect. We were collected from Stockholm airport at 4pm local time and bussed to the White Ship, a great...

Arirang [Cinema]

08/06/2012

Marking Korean director Kim Ki-duk's return to filmmaking, and indeed the world in general, Arirang is an interesting one that will divide opinion. Having self-imposed a punishing, three-year...

Tav Falco [Interview]

07/06/2012

There's a mixed crowd at Rough Trade East, a record shop in ever-so hip Brick Lane. They're listening to Tav Falco read extracts from his new book, Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma and...

DV8: Can We Talk About This? [Theatre/Dance]

04/06/2012

'I'm an artist who's interested in real issues, not just pretty shapes' ...

Hank3: Interview/Live Review

01/06/2012

'when people come to see me, I want to give them a good time' Most bands have enough problems getting out one album at a time. Not so for Hank 3, real name Shelton Hank Williams, also...

Outside of business, it’s business as usual

01/06/2012

Orwell Prize shortlister Lisa Ansell takes a commonsense view of financial crisis and ground-level resilience I logged on to twitter today for the first time in a bit, and I saw that Baroness Warsi...

What the Butler Saw: Vaudeville Theatre

31/05/2012

With a triple whammy of household names – as if the chance to see Samantha Bond in her undercrackers wasn't enough to fill the house nightly, we also get Omid Djalili and Tim McInnery...

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...

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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...