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Loitered Lens: Savage Nomads

22/01/2012

The Savage Nomads are a great London band that have been doing good things and making the right sort of noise. Our man Carl Batson likes these kids. He knows their habits, he watches their styles...

Trace Elements: Off Course

17/01/2012

I used to live across the street from Hamburger University, where McDonalds teach staff the innermost secrets of the McMuffin, Happy Meals and Going Large. Unusually for a seat of learning, it was...

Yayoi Kusama: An Explosion of Stickers

14/01/2012

Installation views of The obliteration room 2011 as part of ‘ Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever’, Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art, 2011 ...

Trace Elements: Commercial Breakdown

10/01/2012

A commercial break on Pick TV has just made me question the way that I’m living life. And not in a “It’s Saturday night and I’m sitting here on my own watching Pick TV”...

Loitered Lens: Joel Sarakula [Pics]

08/01/2012

Hipster Folk and laid back dirt rave, gypsy funk with a grow-mo pomo comb-over… Vicariously talented wunderkind Joel Sarakula has been a collectors item for a number of years...

The Free Music Mirage

06/01/2012

Putting an End to a Persistent Illusion Steadily, over the course of the last 10 years, the idea that recorded music "has" to be free has been transformed from a radical stance taken by...

Trace Elements: Screamer

03/01/2012

Back in the sixties, teenage girls in their thousands would cram into concerts given by The Beatles and scream hysterically from first note to last. The songs were seldom heard. Those teens could...

Loitered Lens: Intense [Pics]

01/01/2012

UK Metal's Ronseal Band… Intense struggle against adversity and finally give the audience what they want: Drama and penicillin. Reading through the history of the band it becomes...

Trace Elements: Workaholic

27/12/2011

During a party thrown to celebrate my 2nd birthday, apparently, my Grandma asked me the big question “Where’s Daddy?” I’m told my response was to point over to a framed photo...

Loitered Lens: Inmoria [Pics]

25/12/2011

Inmoria bring a new level of power and confidence to power metal. It's all in the wrist and the jaw. There is a metal tendon that joins both appendages (and in true metal the jaw is not...

Trace Elements: Taboo

20/12/2011

So it’s Tuesday morning and I’m writing copy from home for a tobacco firm. What makes it worse ethically and karmically is they’re global. Plus I’ve just noticed the words...

Loitered Lens: If [Pics]

18/12/2011

Who are these men? Where do they come from? How do they keep going? Shut up and pass the gasoline. A band comes together for so many reasons and after a while the purpose becomes unimportant....

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors,...

Trace Elements: Twister

13/12/2011

I’ve never been to Mumbai, but if their train journeys into work are less overcrowded than London’s, I may outsource myself soon. Plus a mutant insect flew into my mouth I guess I’d...

Loitered Lens: The Castells [Pics]

11/12/2011

The Castells are cool. "Wearing daft shirts and playing effortlessly, The Castells become one, effortlessly. Baby belle wax figurines, A penguin becomes a tangerine. If time...

Loitered Lens: Glasvegas [Pics]

04/12/2011

Glasvegas demanded that the NME stop printing lies about them. Or did they? It’s doubtful. The soulful Scottish band have moved from heights to heights with their uplifting music and critical...

What is a Trebuchet?

30/11/2011

What is a Trebuchet? Trebuchet is a deadly siege weapon that hurls an object by using a counterweight. ...

Make Better Music 68: Words and Music

29/11/2011

Writing music comes easily to me for the most part, I’ve usually got a surplus of ideas, so the only the most interesting actually get worked on. The more derivative and unimaginative ideas get...

The Other Art Fair

23/11/2011

Seduced by art: From art virgin to art collector It sparks off debates, encourages us to take a look at topical issues, delves inside the subconscious, and allows us to have a laugh at the world and...

Make Better Music 67: Raw Power and Sophistication

22/11/2011

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....

Loitered Lens: Her [Pics]

20/11/2011

Images by Carl Byron Batson 2011. Carl Byron BatsonPhotographer, published poet, former party animal, body builder, grave robber to the stars and renowned chainsaw juggler, Carl can often be...

Make Better Music 66: Embrace the Chaos

15/11/2011

In the midst of a vast YouTube binge the other evening (I’ve got a thirst for seeking out to interviews with musicians I like, and seem to be hopeless at turning YouTube off), I happened to come...

Photo Essay – Judith Scott at Museum of Everything

14/11/2011

Museum of Everything showcases outsider art and people not usually recognised as artists. I loved the Judith Scott exhibition, and especially intriguing were the x-rays of the...

Loitered Lens: Healthy Junkies [Pics]

13/11/2011

Melodic French edge meets English grunt. Parisian Lead singer Nina Courson teamed up with British guitarist Phil Honey-Jones just over a year ago to set about writing and recording one song for a...

Make Better Music 65: A Musical Process

08/11/2011

So this week, having been inspired by a particular piece of music, I’m going to focus on one particular kind of procedure - which doesn’t really have a name. I’ll just try to describe it....

Loitered Lens: Grim Dylan [Pics]

06/11/2011

Photos of Grim Dylan 2011...

Artists: what are we worth?

04/11/2011

The economic crisis has meant an economic armageddon for artists. What are we worth? was a panel discussion led by DACS and Artquest that considered how artists can create income in support of their...

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”

01/11/2011

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”The big question that always demands an answer, when you are writing music, is what happens next? It seems straightforward until you try it. Then...

Loitered Lens: Catfight/Gasoline Thrill [Pics]

30/10/2011

Catfight have forged a breathy reputation for getting dirty in UK venues since 2009, and giving you more rock for your pound. Prior to becoming Gasoline Thrill Trebuchet captured Catfight live at the...

From Shiny Things to Silliness – Frieze Overview

27/10/2011

Frieze was a fantastic opportunity to see a so many of the world’s top artists and galleries in one place. With a multitude of styles and genres on show from over 170 galleries from...

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