Archive - Trebuchet

Make Better Music 11: Explore Rhythm

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 11: Explore Rhythm. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Make Better Music 10: Seven Mistakes a Creative Musician Should Never Make

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 10: Seven Mistakes a Creative Musician Should Never Make. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Make Better Music 9: What’s Your Story?

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 9: What’s Your Story? Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Make Better Music 8: What Writing music is NOT

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 8: What Writing music is NOT. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Make Better Music 7: Think it over and it will fall down.

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 7: Think it over and it will fall down. Elton John’s partner David Furnish (yeah I can’t believe I’m quoting him either) once said “Anyone with an addiction is not being...

Make Better Music 6: Master and Servant

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 6: Master and Servant. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Make Better Music 5: Be Your Own Worst Critic

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 5: Be Your Own Worst Critic. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Make Better Music 4: Everything I do turns out rubbish!

20/10/2010

Make Better Music 4: Everything I do turns out rubbish! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Make Better Music 3: 5 Ways to Re-Ignite Your Passion for Making Music

18/10/2010

Make Better Music 3: 5 Ways to Re-Ignite Your Passion for Making Music. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Make Better Music 2: Dancing About Architecture

18/10/2010

Make Better Music 2: Dancing About Architecture. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Make Better Music 1: Why Do You Write Music?

18/10/2010

It’s a question that most of us avoid. I’m not sure how to answer it, it seems there’s lot of different answers depending on which part of my brain is responding....

Cornbury Music Festival 2010

18/10/2010

Cornbury Music Festival, 3-4th July 2010. Cornbury festival is a very English event described as a ‘dynamic summer festival disguised as a country fayre’ by the organisers or elsewhere as...

Ghosthandfister – Ghosthandfister

18/10/2010

Ghosthandfister – Ghosthandfister ODD records 2010 What an amazing debut. Ghosthandfister is a perfectly formed record which sounds timeless by virtue of it overtly referencing categorical...

Kabutogani – BEKTOP

18/10/2010

Kabutogani – BEKTOP Mille Plateaux (2010) For a strongly glitch album, Kabutogani sounds about as fresh as it comes. On BEKTOP, flirtations with melody and discord wheel and flow about the...

Frank Tovey – Fad Gadget (2006) – Mute

18/10/2010

It’s been said that the clearest sign of genius is to be unappreciated in your own time. Eighties musical pioneer Frank Tovey (as alter ego Fad Gadget) managed the twin feat of alienating...

Roots Manuva – Alternatively Deep (2006) – Big Dada

18/10/2010

The resurgence of British hip-hop in recent years has revelled in rebelling against current trends across the Atlantic. Personal aggrandizement and brand championship has been a consistent element of...

The Vines – Vision Valley (2006) – EMI

18/10/2010

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia: The Vines are an Australian garage rock band notable for producing a raw musical hybrid of 60's rock and 90's alternative; the band being popularly...

Squarepusher – Hello Everything (2006) – Warp

18/10/2010

Ten albums in ten years: is Squarepusher the most prolific electronic artist of his generation? Maybe, but quantity does not equal quality and recent efforts have felt kinda lost in a sea of...

I’m From Barcelona – Let Me Introduce My Friends (2006) – EMI

18/10/2010

This is possibly the catchiest record ever released. If you are anything like me that may sound like a turn off, but bear with me. Now usually an album of such infectious pop-indie songs would have...

Animal Collective – Hollinndagain (2006) – Mutante-inc

18/10/2010

Music worth a damn? We look at the Animal Collective's Hollinndagain to get a better read on the situation. ...

AMETSUB – The Nothings of the North

18/10/2010

AMETSUB – The Nothings of the North Mille Plateaux (2010) Inspired by his trip to Iceland this is the second release for Ametsub and one of the first for the newly launched Mille Plateaux...

Anita Maj – Out of Control

18/10/2010

Heading mainly for the teen rock audience, this debut single by upcoming South London-based “feisty rock soul diva” Anita Maj combines lyrics lamenting the hot boy laden crush,...

Clicks & Cuts 5.0 – Paradigm Shift

18/10/2010

Clicks & Cuts 5.0 - Paradigm Shift...

Did you have to be there? 21st Century Adventure Cinema

18/10/2010

Adventure Cinema...

Lebowski Fest UK

18/10/2010

Lebowksi fest : The Big Lebowski a film festival, travelling roadshow and life beyond the celluloid. Trebuchet visit the land of bowling and white russians to 'take it easy' and fucking the eagles....

Hormonauts, Jetlag, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti: The Italian Job

17/10/2010

Review of Hormonauts, Jetlag, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti: The Italian Job...

Bubba Bubble Toil and Trouble

13/10/2010

George Soros has created the concept of reflexivity to describe the process of feedback and interaction between perceptions and reality....

Marcel Theroux: A Blow to the Heart

17/09/2010

Marcel Theroux is the son of a travelling writing behemoth (Paul), and older brother of TV’s dissembling clown (Louis). He has said in the past he’d like to be known in his own right. I’ve...

Idealistic Escape : Womad 2010

14/09/2010

Womad 2010 : Partly ecological fayre, part activistic showcase, part global awareness program a lot more goes on around the stages than is commonly publicised....