Author: Trebuchet Magazine

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

UK art trade campaign to stop royalties for artists

Anyone polluting the comments thread on this story with anecdotal observations along the lines of : 'I'm a plumber, why don't I get a royalty on work I did ten years ago?' can take...

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The Victorian English Gentlemens Club + Fever Fever : Live

'Every review calls us a "Norwich three-piece"…. No, "FEMALE-FRONTED Norwich three-piece"….' Fever Fever bemoan halfway through their set. And I guess this...

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Nuclear Fusion is Go

Nuclear Fusion. A goal that has been with us for decades, but always elusive. If it happens, it will change everything. If it doesn't, at least we learned what a torus looks like. Mechanical,...

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2:54 [Album Review]

The debut album from sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow has a milder feel than the live shows, the punch and rawness extracted to leave a more mellow sound. Since the beginning of 2012 2:54 have been...

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The Science of ‘Cool’

Do rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking still make up the essence of coolness? "When I set out to find what people mean by coolness, I wanted to find corroboration of...

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Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

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Bloodstock announce mystery headliner

Bloodstock announce mystery headliner...

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Sex sells. Except to geeks and hicks

Put a pretty girl on the stage and more people will come to your gig. Sad fact, but it's true.''It takes more explicitness to grab our attention than before" says researcher Tom...

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

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...

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Slingshots and Fishtanks to tackle Artillery

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...

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(A little) More known about potential asteroid impact

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...

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Twitter Propaganda Exposed

'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...

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Men’s offices are muckier, it’s official

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...

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Tav Falco London in-store

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...

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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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Solvent Abuse Hits the Uneducated Harder

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...

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GV Art launch ‘Coming of Age’

'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...

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Planning Permission comes to the Moon

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...

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Get Ready for Venus Transit of the Sun

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...

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Invisibility Cloaks One Step Nearer

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...

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Hevy Fest lineup already looking amazing – Meshuggah

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...

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Henpecking husbands improves their diet – for a while

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...

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Combichrist on tour

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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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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Violent video games turning gamers into deadly shooters

Well, duh! But never mind, perhaps the other part of the phenomenon involves gamers being able to heal serious gunshot wounds by walking into floating red cross packages. Violent video games turning...

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Hot Chip: New Video

Hot Chip continue the build with another new video, this time for 'Night and Day'. Peter Serafinovitz is back behind the cameras on directorial duties, after his initial collaboration with...

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Sports slow your brain

'students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected' "These results were found shortly after the season and we do not know...

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Foul-Mouthed Characters get more of Everything

My my, this is a prim piece of news. First up, note that the research comes from Brigham Young University, the Utah-based seat of Mormon higher education. Far be it for we at Trebuchet to cast...

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Kapow Comic convention starts tomorrow

Masked denizens make prepare to have your 11×17 300dpi fanboy desires inked.   Kapow Comic Convention is recognised as one of the major UK conventions related to comic and fantasy. ...

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Dinowalrus release video for ‘Beth Steel’

Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what I mean, the messiah is my sister, ain't no king when she's my queen. This 'news' piece is really an excuse to soften you up for...

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