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Hank3: Interview/Live Review

'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...

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Scots Die Younger. Why?

'Income inequality, welfare policy and unemployment do not occur by accident, but as a product of the politics pursued by the government of the day'. And that statement goes a long way to...

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The Reasoning: Interview

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...

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Vengeance and the Panther Queen: EP Review

Cramming in the pyrotechnic axe-wizardry of metal, the chundering drums of dance, and the infantile personal politics of punk. Vengeance and the Panther Queen sometimes get it right. Without even...

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Big girls Don’t Cry: Adolescent women resist negative body image

So linked are the concepts of body-image and self-esteem in our minds that the premise of this news article prompts a double-take. In fact, there is no reason to assume that the two should be linked...

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Acclaimed poet Brendan Cleary in cult magazine relaunch!

Like the lust of my midnight phoenix bad poetry seems to die and be reborn every three years.    There'll be some event, movie, appointment that brings it into the public eye and...

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Location/existence of the g-spot scientifically confirmed

It's a glacial process, for women, having the realities of their sexual health determined and documented. The mere existence of clitoris or orgasm have only been annotated by western physicians...

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Tribalism is a luxury

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...

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Avaaz petition: Jeremy Hunt Must Go.

As the Leveson inquiry continues, depressing a nation by holding a mirror up to it's own moribund fascinations with celebrity reproduction, new and startling revelations arise.  Sometimes...

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Occupy and MoveOn Support civil disobedience training

The MoveOn.org in association with a number of organisations are launching an initiative to train people in non-violent resistance.  The idea is to make 2012 the year for a co-ordinated protest...

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

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

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Bang On!: [Sic]

And, like many gobby kids with a sharp wit and an audience, he gets carried away at times. 'Picking fatties with big racks/ to lick their piss flaps/ like Johnny Vegas in drag' flies past, sexist and...

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Last Chance to Save the NHS [Petition]

From avaaz.org: Dear friends across Britain, We have just days to save the NHS. Opposition from doctors, nurses and patients has rocked the government. Our massive outcry now can persuade undecided...

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Rashid Rana: NAE at Hyson Green

Rashid Rana’s: Everything Is Happening At Once ...

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A Journey To The End Of Empire: Pt. 1

It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black "When the poet stands at nadir the world must indeed be upside-down. If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself,...

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Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

The Legendary Shack Shakers never miss and have wowed the hardy fools of the hip underground over the course of six energetic punk blues albums. Inteview with JD Wilkes...

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Ronin: Interview

Interview with OVO drummer Bruno Dorella about with dark folk group Ronin...

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Punishment Park

As the UK slips further towards the more and more real prospect of a police state — some, myself included, would argue we’re already there — this 40th anniversary Blu-ray edition of Peter...

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Interesting Times: SOPA

Politics has rarely concerned itself with the intelligent. The art of persuasion is neutered by the intelligent person's demands for data. Where will the money for schools, libraries, hospitals...

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Double Hammer: The Scarlet Blade and The Brigand of Kandahar

Out today, making their world DVD premieres, are these two Hammer classics, The Scarlet Blade (1964) and The Brigand of Kandahar (1965). Both tales of conflict written and directed by John Gilling,...

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Black Tusk: Set the Dial

Savannah chooglin metallers Black Tusk put some grind into their sludge grunt. Black Tusk have a shared history along with bands like Baroness and Kylesa apparently they’re mates and have...

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We would go totally apeshit (Splatterheads)

Trebuchet interviews Sly, vocalist and guitarist for The Splatterheads, about their history and tentatively, the future of the parochial Australian rock labourer....

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Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad...

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Ultra-Thatcherite Ultra-Violence

As even Britain's kleptocratic party leaders have now been forced to admit, various modes of corruption and anti-social criminality are not confined to gangs or underclasses. Context There's...

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Dalston Riot: DELS (featuring Roots Manuva) – Capsize

As this review is being written, Tweetdeck's pop-up window appears repeatedly to comment on the Tottenham, now Dalston, and seemingly soon-to-be Hackney riots. The tweets range in their tone from...

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Generation Genocide: John Sinclair (MC5)/ Bermondsey Joyriders

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...

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Patrolling the Edges of Panic Town

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...

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

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...

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The Loneliness of a Long Distance Academy

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...

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A Casual Bombing in Nigeria

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...

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