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Americana International Festival 2012

While wandering around my first ever festival, Reading 1989, I came across a stall selling a selection of badges, one of which portrayed a Confederate flag....

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Peter Broderick: These Walls of Mine

‘…composing and playing music is just a pretty sophisticated way to do those things we do, but why? Because we were separated in the big bang – and are now endlessly trying to find...

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The Return of the Return of Fu Man Chu

‘Yellow peril gets nearer’ is a newspaper headline I remember from my distant youth. In those politically incorrect days it may have referred to a new strain of Asian Flu or a Chinese incursion...

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Electrick Children

Serving as first-time for both director/writer Rebecca Thomas and a lead role for Julia Garner (not bad for only her second feature), Electrick Children, while a little predictable, particularly in...

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“A Progress” enters crowd-sourced preproduction.

Local theatre group and Trebuchet Alumni 'Beggars Belief' are you asking you to take a look at their proposal 'A Progress' and if so inclined support them. On the basis the it...

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Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 2)]

Review of gothic industrial festival Wave Gotik Treffen 2012...

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Tav Falco [Interview]

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...

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

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

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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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Dinowalrus: Best Behavior

Warrington's Parr Hall saw the Stone Roses' comeback gig just last Wednesday, playing a free concert for fans who could produce some physical merchandise-based evidence of their devotion. Rock and...

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Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies – Competition

312 shows in a year, 17 different countries. Bob Wayne puts in the miles, and he'll be doing this shit  till the wheels fall off this muthafucker. “I’ve always known I wanted to...

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Art. A mirror to reflect society, or a hammer to shape it?

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?               But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,...

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City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch

City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch. News work by challenging the edge of music. …  Cathy Lane – Tweed Cathy Lane – Hidden Lives Viv Corringham –...

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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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David Lynch Debuts Record Store Day Exclusive

Sunday Best Recordings proudly presents limited edition remixed by Moby.  SINGLE PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE INDEPENDENT RETAIL COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE RECORD STORE DAY ARRIVES SAT 21 APRIL To...

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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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Brighton’s Great Escape Host ‘DIY’ Music Forum

'You've got to think of yourself as a brand, man. And, like, put download links on your FaceBook page and GO VIRAL!' Finding a way to make the music industry work for you takes more than...

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Eco Tourists Stress Wild Apes Out

Sadly, eco tourism impacts too. And although the stressful effects of human contact with orangutan populations in Malaysia seem temporary, it's hard not to feel that no stress at all is a better...

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Bill Drummond Presents: SURROUND: Damascus in London

Bill Drummond - My Arab Spring - Part Two...

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Rashid Rana: NAE at Hyson Green

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

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Cafe OTO Launch Record Label

Cafe OTO, Keiko and Hamish's Dalston emporium of Japanese snackery curates consistently-brilliant live music concerts, and pops up in Trebuchet's gig listings more often than just about any...

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IMPRINT at the Serpentine Gallery 2012

The Fabelists – coming together to launch an event that crossed many boundaries.Serpentine Gallery’s Centre for Possible Studies, 21 Gloucester Place, 
London W1U 8HR...

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Straylings: Live Review

The Straylings are getting it right, but the kindling stayed wet. The constant churn of styles in the bitter quest for hipness has delivered another pleasure: Straylings. They have pedigree and...

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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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English Wikipedia to turn off the lights in SOPA protest

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at WED 05:00 UTC.  In an unparalleled show of web solidarity...

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“By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It”: Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies

Regardless of the dissembling of corporate state propagandists, free market capitalism has always been a government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers’ game, in which, psychopathic...

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Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

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King Mob and Bermondsey Joyriders: Live

Punkemon: elusive punks finally sighted and captured. 17/11/2011 – 229 Portland Street. There is a section of the punk community, born too late to see any of the bands in their prime (and in...

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Make Better Music 67: Raw Power and Sophistication

For some, measured, intelligent songwriting skills are the pinnacle of musical enjoyment, for others it can be the antithesis of what music is there for - the expression of raw emotion....

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Peter Broderick: Music for Confluence

The somewhat fantastical world of Erased Tapes record making continues with Peter Broderick's Music for Confluence. After the happy accident in which Nils Frahm's efforts not to wake the...

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