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…
PWC14 Second Round: South Korea v USA 12 May 2014 Two heavily fancied pop nations up against each other in the final second round game of the Pop World Cup. South Korea topped Group H with the highest score of…
Skylanders Reprise 17 Apr 2013 My earlier Skylanders post - about the parallels between the smash game's Physical-Digital interfaces and the ongoing vinyl revival - was written without having actually played much of it. I…
PWC14: Group A Finale (Cameroon, Brazil, Croatia, Mexico) 24 Mar 2014 Welcome to our last Group A game. Let's see how things stand. Cameroon (managed by Chris) have QUALIFIED from the group with 5.5 points. Either they or Brazil will now…
PWC14: Group C Match 2 (Japan, Cote D'Ivoire, Colombia, Greece) 27 Feb 2014 Group C's second game finds a confirmation that David Cooper Moore has been given the Colombia manager's job full-time after impressing with his urgent substitution in Game 1. He'll be…
PWC14: Group G Finale (USA, Portugal, Ghana, Germany) 15 Apr 2014 Welcome to the final Group G game! Let's see how things stand. USA (managed by The Lex), Portugal (managed by Weej) and Ghana (managed by Jonathan Bogart) all have 4…
The Inch - Pilot (Tom Ewing Guest) 6 Nov 2013 Ten years, or considerably more, ago Friday nights were easy. Some of us involved in FreakyTrigger would go to the pub. We would have a suitable amount of beer, and…
Going Back To My Routes: Intro 10 Oct 2013 This is a set of posts about the Pokemon series of games - one long post for each Pokemon generation. I wanted to write about something my sons cared about…
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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
17 Jun 2010
Finally, the moment of ABSOLUTE POP TRUTH is upon us! And my goodness, what a nail-biter of a contest this has been. Halfway through the voting, two decades broke decisively ahead of the pack, establishing a lead that proved impossible to catch up with. Although one of them looked to have the edge, its rival […]
26 Apr 1999
The mode of the music changes, the city quakes, or at least those blocks of primer-than-thou office space quake that house the HQs of worldwide record companies. The reason, apparently, is MP3 technology, which you all know about and most of you use, and which has been the subject of acres of ruminative, pessimistic music […]
30 Apr 2000
April 2000, Piccadilly The sun comes out over London and the Summer starts: everywhere you look you see people in love, snogging on the tubes and holding hands on the escalators so you can’t get past them. Baggy shorts and halter tops all over the place, kids sitting together on Eros and choking on the […]
1 Jun 2002
1 The weather matters. Saturday 1st June: 8pm, and the sky out of my window is still fading pale blue, weightless, benevolent. A jubilee weekend of rain would be a symbolic down: but then, we are long used to finding a meaning in the rain. Not just we aesthetes (‘I’m happy when it rains’; ‘You’re […]
25 Jun 2018
No, you’ve not missed any matches. We’re putting this year’s games up as we get the entries in, and so it’s a big thankyou to the prompt Group E gaffers of Serbia, Brazil, Switzerland and Morocco. It’s a group of veteran pop managers in the dugout this match, but only two can progress beyond the […]
14 Apr 2007
Plenty of words have been written about the seminal Sex Pistols’ seminal gig at the seminal Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976. There has even been a whole book about it! Everyone knows that the gig was really very important indeed and that everyone who attended became a very extremely important person. HOWEVER does everyone know exactly […]
14 Nov 2006
In The Beginning There Was Nothingness. IF ONLY. In The Beginning There Was The Word. NOT THE BIRD FROM L7 PULLING DOWN HER KECKS AGAIN. But neither of these are strictly true. Because the first book of the Bible Of Badness is Genesis. And if you were ever to question how bad this Bible could […]
9 Jul 2010
So we get a winner, down on Brewer Street in Soho, the Glasshouse Stores was voted the number one pub of the noughties by those of us who voted. A nice pub sure, but so much better than the others? To find out why it scored so highly I thought I would canvas a number […]
