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Tropic of Cancer: Permissions of Love

06/06/2012

Tropic of Cancer are the American duo Camella Lobo and Juan Mendez (a.k.a. Techno producer Silent Servant). They've slowly gained a following in the last couple of years and now present their...

CONCEPTION: An exhibition to create dialogue and duplicity

05/06/2012

Two artists, two cultures, two cities, two media. In this two-part exhibition spanning London and Belfast, the vibrant, acid coloured figurative canvases of Darren MacPherson are hung alongside...

A glass of wine and a Gauloise: European teens smoke and drink more than Americans

04/06/2012

Cafe culture, the imagined nirvana of British politicians who have based their idea of European quotidian life on their experiences of Provencal mountain retreats and Dordogne riverside bistros. Not...

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

04/06/2012

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

Slingshots and Fishtanks to tackle Artillery

03/06/2012

Qualifies as essential news simply because we're Trebuchet, and we're a little bit obsessed with machines that fling things. Hence the name. What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a...

Emma Sywyj: Malaysia [Photos]

03/06/2012

‘The unnatural colours came out my interest in the kitsch nature I found there. Again the town I was in was abundant in nature with jungles, mountains and tropical islands. Yet the town was...

(A little) More known about potential asteroid impact

02/06/2012

The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor of...

IzIggy and Some Weird Sinners: Long Island [Gig]

02/06/2012

zIggy and Some Weird Sinners, billed as Europe's No 1 Iggy Pop tribute act...

Friends: Manifest

01/06/2012

Friends are a 5 piece Brooklyn band, not yet two years old, who you might have noticed gathered a lot of buzz back at the end of 2011. Their name suggests a kind of exclusivity- An ambiguous Google...

Twitter Propaganda Exposed

01/06/2012

'Astroturfing'. You probably already know the term. If you don't, learn it now, and the practice it describes. A centrally-planned and sophisticated campaign deliberately made to look...

Hank3: Interview/Live Review

01/06/2012

'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...

Outside of business, it’s business as usual

01/06/2012

Orwell Prize shortlister Lisa Ansell takes a commonsense view of financial crisis and ground-level resilience I logged on to twitter today for the first time in a bit, and I saw that Baroness Warsi...

Men’s offices are muckier, it’s official

31/05/2012

Well, it's hardly surprising that men's offices have more bacteria than women's. Using the car keys to clean out earwax isn't something we associate with women, after all. And...

What the Butler Saw: Vaudeville Theatre

31/05/2012

With a triple whammy of household names – as if the chance to see Samantha Bond in her undercrackers wasn't enough to fill the house nightly, we also get Omid Djalili and Tim McInnery...

Tav Falco London in-store

30/05/2012

Post-modern pop classicist TavFalco makes rare appearance in London to promote psychogeographical book. Tav Falco was cool before cool was cool. Or so the internet would have us believe. He is, in...

Scots Die Younger. Why?

30/05/2012

'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...

Fish/Glenn Hughes [Live Review]

30/05/2012

'a night of two veteran performers both of whom have still "got it"' Tim Hall reviews. Double headline shows are an increasingly common phenomenon nowadays. In these economically...

Solvent Abuse Hits the Uneducated Harder

29/05/2012

Solvent abuse hits the uneducated harder because they lack 'a greater cognitive reserve that acts like a buffer'. So essentially, you can nosebag that tube of contact glue till your face...

GV Art launch ‘Coming of Age’

29/05/2012

'Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of ageing' – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication GV Art's cross-curricular investigations into the meeting points of art and...

Dinowalrus: Best Behavior

29/05/2012

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...

UFOMammut: instinctual tones – interview.

28/05/2012

With a name that combines the weighty presence of an extinct mammal and the fancy of controversial space vehicles expect herbal smoke tinged religious commentary, long hair, and unhurried...

Planning Permission comes to the Moon

27/05/2012

You remember those title deeds to a chunk of the moon they used to sell in the back pages of newspapers back in the days when space exploration was the sole preserve of the superpowers? Well, just in...

Loitered Lens: Happy Mondays [Photos]

27/05/2012

Photos of the Happy Mondays in concert...

Get Ready for Venus Transit of the Sun

26/05/2012

Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an event that will not be seen again for over a...

Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall Street

26/05/2012

In the Name of My Father: Requiem and Renewal in the Shadow of Wall Street On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS...

Invisibility Cloaks One Step Nearer

25/05/2012

Advances in cloaking technology have rarely been as exciting as they should be, mostly being based around the unwieldy idea of covering military vehicles with pixellated monitor surfaces much the...

Trailer Trash Tracys: Hoxton Live Review.

25/05/2012

"Pop sass braced with rock raunch, a retrodelic romp through an imaginary all-American idyll of cheerleaders, T-Birds and prom-night cooties" – Sean Keenan,Trebuchet. On its...

Hevy Fest lineup already looking amazing – Meshuggah

24/05/2012

Trebuchet had so much fun last year that again we're looking to rock the flock out of commercial punk! How awesome was it? Almost too much and this year's line-up is already...

Henpecking husbands improves their diet – for a while

24/05/2012

A 'landslide of food'. Seems that the henpecked man's act of defiance is not significantly different to the dieting woman's ice-cream pigout. Healthy eating is a fine idea, but when...

Combichrist on tour

24/05/2012

Combichrist are a selected band of very noisey power electronic chums… devoted to dirty industrial groove and trash. …and they're on tour! Of course it would be great if...

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