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The Passing of the Amy Winehouse Object 1983-2011

28/07/2011

Remembering Winehouse as either the tabloid-splashed mental wreck or as the misunderstood musical genius archetype the press is already constructing, is unfair and ultimately disrespectful....

Mitch Lucker, Suicide Silence. By Carl Byron Batson for Trebuchet Magazine

Suicide Silence – The Black Crown, London.

23/07/2011

"I don’t want to sound like a fucking dinosaur or a pig for 45 minutes and no one know what the fuck I’m saying" Trebuchet magazine interviews Mitch Lucker...

The ‘13’ Rules of Left and Learning.

21/07/2011

When strange rituals become rules, and rules become superstition. I have a list in my head of things that make a good man. The ability to play a good F chord, all frets barred, no muted...

Generation Genocide: John Sinclair (MC5)/ Bermondsey Joyriders

17/07/2011

Generation Genocide: Punk doesn’t nurture it preserves! The word ‘Punk’ must retire. Dispossessed from its ancient zeitgeist it bitterly refuses to die, refuses to compromise, and continues to...

Architects of Rage: Godflesh on Streetcleaner [Interview]

16/07/2011

Extreme music godfathers Godflesh reunite after 15 years to play the Streetcleaner album for the eager HMV Forum crowd in Kentish Town....

Slum

04/07/2011

The university hostels back on to a slum. This is in the “Life Camp” area of Abuja. I have no idea why it’s called that, but apparently it’s where all the workers...

Patrolling the Edges of Panic Town

01/07/2011

An academic navigates the great and small encounters of Ex-Pat life in Nigeria. Yesterday, I loaned my car to Joy and Julius. She said it was her birthday, and it seemed like a good idea at the...

Self-image is the beginning and the end of living [Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler]

30/06/2011

Known to many around the globe as The Fonz from the US TV Sitcom Happy Days, Henry Winkler has struggled with dyslexia his whole life and was recently in London supporting the First News education...

The Loneliness of a Long Distance Academy

24/06/2011

The university is open, and the experience has been, somewhat predictably, a mixture of the shambolic, the absurd, the vaguely promising and the outright perplexing. We have a programme for the...

A Casual Bombing in Nigeria

21/06/2011

On the 16th of June there was a bomb blast in Abuja, at the police headquarters. At the time of writing this they had not released the figures for the number of dead yet, except to confirm that...

On “The Issue Of Character” And Empire

20/06/2011

Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source…to begin chanting, eternity will not be televised. In...

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Union Chapel

18/06/2011

Acoustic unions in an electric chapel, I beheld the evolution of folk music and it was divine. Rocking it was not. Communion. A series of flashbacks occurred as I walked down an aisle of the Highbury...

Ducktails – live photos 31st May

17/06/2011

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. – James Lalropui Keivom...

Kurt Gluck Speaks ‘Ohm Resistance’

16/06/2011

Anger fuelled techno label Ohm Resistance have described their sound as “the price of revolution”. So with this rebellious streak in mind, Trebuchet Magazine interviewed owner and...

René, Can We Begin A Dream Collaboration Project?

03/06/2011

Human language is like a cracked kettle drum on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity. -Gustave Flaubert Descartes,...

Running in the Dark

29/05/2011

Having lived a drug-free life, I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out. Is there really an experience only a substance can provide? I'm standing in a field in the English countryside. I can...

Leaving The Church of Free Market Miracles

27/05/2011

Where does one find succor and seeds of renewal in times such as these? Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the...

Roger Waters Revives The Wall

20/05/2011

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

“Crack makes me feel like Jesus ought to”

20/05/2011

Drugged under one Crack nation - The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, empire, Jesus, and the death genes....

Going Nowhere?

15/05/2011

Nowhere is an arts-based event inspired by the infamous Burning Man, but is Nowhere a quaint “Euro-taster” or an event in itself? For the last eight years the Spanish desert has been lit...

Scenes of Plenty: British Library

14/05/2011

'men seek after a better notion of riches and of the art of getting wealth than the mere acquisition of coin'. Essay on Wealth...

Interstates and States of Grief

13/05/2011

On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video, we meet confederate ghosts and demons of consumer emptiness. We travel down the highway, propelled by engines of...

Caretaker of the Curious: Leyland Kirby

12/05/2011

"I think everyone should take more risks constantly, not just musicians" James Leyland Kirby (latterly known as The Caretaker) is a mysterious figure in electronic music. Respected but...

The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

06/05/2011

Transmuting Lead into Gold: America's Politics Of Revenge And Submission. When the individual feels, the community reels Osama Bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy...

Outliers in Emotion: Enduser

06/05/2011

"I think Dubstep is something that just got out of hand creatively and now it's just a bunch of people ripping each other off" Trebuchet’s love affair with Breakcore continues...

Why Are Americans So Easily Conned?

06/05/2011

Our blind optimism allows us to live in comfort zones, but it turns vast spaces of the world into death zones. The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of...

Among the Ciphers of a Declining Empire

29/04/2011

Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: A Comb-Over Treatment for Declining Empire. Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often...

On the Brink of Democracy

27/04/2011

Nigeria is a confusing country for the stranger, and the situation only gets worse when you start looking at politics. As such I’m not going to try and give you a nicely crafted or...

“The Problem With Nigeria…”

23/04/2011

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”K/dropcapeith and I have decided that the problem with Nigeria is the finish. Or, as Peter would put it, the last ten percent. Now, I (to...

A Welshman arrives in Nigeria

20/04/2011

“You have the wrong sort of visa for this sort of consultancy.” I didn’t know what to say so I said nothing, although that was at least partly because I felt like I was about to fall over. ...

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