Archive - Trebuchet

Brompton Dock – Virgin Trains supports Bike Hire Scheme

02/07/2012

Finally a UK bike scheme that supports UK manufacturers. Press Release: Bromptondock folding cycle hire scheme launches in Stoke-on-Trent Second dock for Virgin Trains installed at the...

Spiritualized: New Video

02/07/2012

On the same day as the Pet Shop Boys release a (very dull) video, the manic visual energy of a life spent conducting unofficial pharmaceutical research on oneself makes itself apparent in the...

Pet Shop Boys: New Single

02/07/2012

Sounds like Pachabel's Canon is getting (yet) another runthrough. This time by those purveyors of dance music (for people who don't dance), Pet Shop Boys. Not the most frenetic of videos...

“A Progress” enters crowd-sourced preproduction.

02/07/2012

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...

Crazy Golf at Selfridges

02/07/2012

As a veteran crazy golfer I approached the Selfridges course with low expectations. How could a ‘pop up’ on a department store roof offer the nightmare experience provided by an enormous...

Fastest Pulsar Ever Found?

01/07/2012

Researchers using three different telescopes — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia — may have found the...

Preview: Cambridge Folk Festival sets sights high!

01/07/2012

Eclectic and expansive, as the Cambridge Folk Festival should be, the list of acts is now immense. Among the ones to look out for ar June Tabor and the Oyster Band, especially if they play that Joy...

Trebuchet [Album]

01/07/2012

Trebuchet, the band… Trebuchet, the album… The name seems familiar, but I just can’t place it… Comprised of four experienced hands from California’s underground indie and post-rock scenes,...

Viva le Rock/Gypsy Hotel: The Garage

30/06/2012

I’ve always found Highbury Garage (I’m still refusing to call it Relentless Garage) a rather sterile venue, but when the evening began with a male unicyclist, Count Adriano Fettuchini, stripping...

In the Name of My Father, Part 2

30/06/2012

Not too long ago, I had a dream wherein I stood gazing over the atrium of a large complex of multi-story structures. Inadvertently, I dropped my "special" writing pen…It glinted...

Kangding Ray Monad XI

30/06/2012

Monad XI is the latest in the Stroboscopic Arfects label's ongoing experimental series and marks a further development in the label's thoughtful aesthetics....

Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies [Live]

29/06/2012

A Retro-rock night and musical fashions, anachronism, mending old ground, conversational racism and phenomenal guitar playing. Let’s burn something. The Borderline is a place where Rock and...

Poo Power – Energy from Excrement

28/06/2012

Energy from excrement: Scientists have invented a new toilet system that will turn human waste into electricity...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 2)]

28/06/2012

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

Shimi, the musical robot

27/06/2012

Sex, drugs? Bet it doesn't even ask for an advance on royalties. Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Shimi, a musical companion...

Mikhael Paskalev’s ‘Jive Babe’

27/06/2012

Contributing to the buzz-mongering, hype-aggregating, SEO-chasing churnalism that passes for music writing in the era of revenue-by-pageview web publishing makes irritating little tics spasm under...

Loitered Lens: Screamin’ Sugar Skulls

27/06/2012

‘a nightmarish peek into a world our parents warned us about if we were caught masturbating, didn’t finish our homework, eat our greens or say our prayers at bedtime’. So says Col. Jon,...

The Other Shades of Grey

26/06/2012

Oh come on, let the old folks get it on if they want to. Institutionalised infantalisation blights the provision of care for the old, and for all that we may quip smugly to ourselves about friction...

Total Recall

26/06/2012

Total Recall, Cheese and Tofu: An elementary and culinary guide to not fretting about the remake Like many, when the pre-trailer trailer of the new Total Recall was released I was...

Declining Testosterone is Not Natural

25/06/2012

'"Also, regular sexual activity tends to increase testosterone," he explained.' An interesting interpretation of the realities of marriage there from Gary Wittert MD (professor of...

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing

25/06/2012

GOSH IT’S A HIPPY Sightings of the world’s best known comic writer are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. Gosh were honoured by his presence on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, seated...

Work starts on fossil fuel free cargo ship

24/06/2012

Arr Harr! Swab the decks you lazy lubbers! Hoist the mainbrace, keelhaul the yardarm and pack the bilges with legal-under-maritime-law Filipino crewmen working for slave wages. Working sail is coming...

In the Name of My Father

24/06/2012

My parents modest, single-level, brick home stands on property that was once part of a sprawling estate owned by the Candler family, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola patricians. Built during the post-war,...

Good parenting more beneficial than money

23/06/2012

The relief that this news piece prompts in a sizeable number of male readers will be tangible from the moon. Sons of fathers with high incomes tend to end up with higher than average incomes...

Where Do We Go Now? [Film]

23/06/2012

Set in a remote, mountainside Lebanese village, where the church and the mosque stand side by side, you’d expect Where Do We Go Now? to be a political affair. Particularly when you consider the...

Kitsune Soleil Mix

22/06/2012

Much in the same vein as the earnest would-be intellectual stilting the atmosphere at an after hours house party, Intelligent Dance Music (for all its worthy pseudo philosophic concept and eagerness...

Sex and Love: The Brain Knows the Difference

21/06/2012

It seems sad but significant, that the research methodology involved used erotic pictures to stimulate sexual desire, but a picture of the subject's 'significant other' to provoke...

Wave Gotik Treffen [Festival Review (part 1)]

21/06/2012

How do you review an event that takes place over four days in multiple venues, includes numerous styles of dark music and if done properly takes the rest of the month or more to recover from? To...

Pirate Bay Evades BT Blocks within Minutes

20/06/2012

The obligation to block access to the Pirate Bay was volubly resisted by BT and many of the communications group's UK competitors....

La Sera [Live Review]

20/06/2012

Yes, they were all very competent musicians. Yes, her voice was crystal clear and soared above the music very nicely indeed . It was easily to imagine some of these songs being used in some sequences...

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