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Why ‘Chav’ is a Feminist Issue

The discourse around ‘chavs’ can be a cover for denigrating the social agency and sexual autonomy of working-class women, as well as wider political attacks on the working class. ...

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Maschine : Rubidium

Contemporary progressive rock at its best, mixing metal, jazz and rock in a seamless blend...

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Imperial Teen : The Borderline

Confidence building from song to song, Imperial Teen’s vocal harmonies were perfect and their friendship and upbeat personality poured over the crowd like an infectious smile. ...

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The Rebirth of Nature : Louise McNaught

A magical world where animals are gods, magic exists, and things around us possess an ethereal, delicate yet simultaneously bold appearance. LouiseMcNaught at DegreeArt...

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Mudhoney : HMV Forum

'themes of angst and resentment rage against the hagiography, by self and others, of youth'...

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Manga to Movies

Japanese films have retaken the box office in their home market in a major shift not seen since the 1960s....

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Make Better Music 71: Sound/Light

Though both deal with wave-like phenomena, sound and light each have their own peculiarities. ...

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Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld

Courtauld literally lived with his collections and so it was the physical composition of the work (such as Gauguin) itself wherein his main interests lay ...

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Iain Jennings : My Dark Surprise

Some of the delicate piano lines on this record are quintessential Iain Jennings...

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Soft Riot : Fiction Prediction

There are some interesting concepts and experiments here, but the moral of the story is that those who live uncritically by the 1980s creatively die by the 1980s...

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Soundscape Ecology : interview with Steven M.Miller

Sound has this wonderful ability to slip past our defenses and infiltrate our experience of place in ways we aren’t aware of, yet respond to nonetheless. Music is just one aspect of this much...

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Riot:Noise [Live at the Borderline]

Playing at 8pm to a room of first pinters shouldn't make a difference to these seasoned road dogs, and true enough by the end of the show there were new fans aplenty....

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Slip Discs Presents….

Manchester has music too. Slip Discs records present Bass Clef, Michachu and more...

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Broad Vision: Inspired by… Images from Science

So often in art/science collaborations it is clear how the process has benefited the arts practitioners; it is often more opaque what benefit the scientists have gained....

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Tubular Bells for Two

Their idea, conceived round a fire with a few glasses of wine, was to reproduce Tubular Bells on two guitars...

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Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

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Hanging Offence : Charlie Dutton Gallery

'communications between gallerists, artists and the viewers can become misunderstood: rudeness, anxieties and insecurities are a lethal cocktail'...

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Troller : [Album Review]

Troller seem undecided which direction to go in – sepulchral or affirmative and this seems to be the sound of a group still in transit....

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Rob Moreton : Interview

Rob Moreton talks to Trebuchet about colour, music and art....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

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Black Sun Are Dead

Drum Major Russell MacEwan: “R.I.P. Black Sun. I would like to wish Kevin and Graeme all the very best for the future. Onwards!”...

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Bob Carlos Clarke Anniversary – Cause

Bob Carlos Clarke Anniversary - Photography Film Cause...

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King of Drone : Aidan Baker Interview

More than a feeling : Trebuchet interviews eclectic drone maestro Aidan Baker about a bunch of random stuff that we wanted to know. ...

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Geographies of War [Exhibition]

The first lesson taught by physically tasting war is that ruination is the essence of all being. Death has no meaning and everything can be reduced to nothing in seconds....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

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Reel Iraq Festival

Reel Festivals focus on Iraq as the theme and subject for their March event, on the tenth anniversary of the UK & US military invasion of the country....

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Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention

Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public....

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Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

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Meg Cranston & John Baldessari [Interview]

'Instead of Catholicism or religion, now we are programmed by the corporations' . Artists Meg Cranston and John Baldessari talk to Trebuchet's own artist in residence - Nicola Anthony...

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Timberlake and Jay-Z To perform at Wireless Festival

Justin Timberlizz and Jay-bizzle to perform at Wireless festival Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Ticket on Sale friday 22nd feb @ 9am ...

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