The Pop World Cup 2018: Fixtures and results 17 Jun 2018 About the Pop World Cup Group standings Group A Pos Team Pts Game 1 % Game 2 % 1 Russia - Artist name - Artist name - 2 Saudi Arabia…
I Love It 30 Jan 2013 I see from my Twitter feed (Lena Dunham Panopticon Division) that the song "I Love It" by Icona Pop is "happening" now. That's fine by me, I like that song.…
PWC14: Group G Match 1 (Germany, Portugal, Ghana, USA) 13 Feb 2014 Is this the Group of Death? That's what early pundits dubbed Group G, featuring pop giant the USA up against three nations with deep musical heritages of their own -…
Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 13 12 Jan 2019 Which hospital: 1 Was a beneficiary of the South Sea Bubble? 2 Recalls an alternative title of Princess Diana? 3 Was built as a memorial to a solicitor’s wife at…
Time Travel Savers 18 Apr 2013 The Guardian, aware that we are living in a country down to its last thruppence ha'penny, is thinking about the finances of the poor gig going kid. Look, they have…
BACK MARK SINKER'S BOOK!! 27 Jul 2016 UPDATE: the book is funded, so thanks everyone that helped. It is due for delivery in a little over a year. I will keep people up to speed on developments…
The Freaky Trigger Comics Poll 2015: #24-#13 19 Jan 2016 "Hi Readers! It's WHACKY here from COR!!, the weekly mag that thrashes the others. You've not seen much of me in comics lately, which is a bit of a sore…
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Tom invented Freaky Trigger on a bus journey in the mid-90s. A page about what he's up to can be found here
1 Sep 2002
Spiders: creepy, crawly little critters which seem up to no good – hanging in the corner of your room, leaving webs around just to make a mess – definitely with their own agenda. Not the most obvious creature to base a film on. Yet Hollywood returns to the theme of spiders every ten years or […]
26 Jan 2004
“Black Man Ray” is Ray Charles, who China Crisis apparently believe in. Now Ray Charles’ blackness is not a secret, so why did China Crisis see fit to remind us of it on their incomprehensibly awful single? My theories: i) They were talking about the photographer Man Ray, and asserting that he was black. Which […]
20 Feb 2007
“[John Thelwall] also had the misfortune to be a mediocre poet — a crime which, although it is committed around us every day — historians and critics cannot forgive.” —E.P.Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class* It was called The Battle of Waterloo, and it was one of the plays offered by J. K. […]
20 Aug 2004
How Old Is Superman? One of the seemingly undefined aspect of the Superman mythos is that of his ageing. Those who fall on the side of his omnipotence in everything (the superhearing, superbreath, superhair bunch) probably think as a preternatural godhead he will live forever. Look, he has been banging around in the comics for […]
22 Aug 2006
Despite a brief cameo by Michael Schumacher Car, the filum Cars steers clear of German cars. Oh, there’s a VW campervan, but that is a hippy, with a typical hippy accent (its your grandad’s idea of a hippy at that, straight out of early seventies films). Equally British cars barely get a look-in. So there […]
20 Jun 2005
Last week saw the release of not one, but two films about previous films. And I don’t mean Batman Begins (which should be retitled Batman Starts for Essex). Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the making of and the effect of notorious porn film Deep Throat. And Baadasssss!, Mario Van Peebles film about the making […]
13 Feb 2000
England is DIFFERENT (or SPECIAL if you want to be polite) to everywhere else for many reasons, but one is because our music “industry” (it’s not an industry – making baked beans is an industry, and nobody does THAT in their spare time, writes fanzines about it or has them poured over themselves at weddings. […]
21 May 2008
I give marks out of 10 to every song – based on whatever criteria you like, here’s your opportunity to say what you’d have given more than 6 to from 1976. Tick as many as you like. And use the comments to discuss the year as a whole, if you like.
