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Lollards on Radio 4

Pete Baran — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:48:39 +0000

Well it might as well be. Myself and Tim of this parish, and Meggean who is one person removed from the FT Collective (she is my old flatmate), were featured heavily on Radio 4′s Soul Music show this week – basically we get the last fifteen minutes. The subject was Wichita Lineman, and the show also features Jimmy Webb and Glenn Campbell (and some bloke who really likes Johnny Cash). We were tapped up by this FT article, so writing rubbish on the internet really does sometimes lead to talking rubbish on the radio.

You can listen again to it here, via the Radio 4 website.. Or its repeated on Saturday afternoon at 3.30pm.

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4 – Week 13)

Pete Baran — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:41:39 +0000

This week the Lollards reflect on Fame, and if they too want to live forever. Brushes with celebrity, real or fictional, the correct way to get an autograph of of a celebrity and the Panto – the SI unit of notoriety. And yes, wherever there is fame, there is infamy (and indeed they have all got in in for us). Pete Baran is joined by Hazel Robinson and Alan Trewartha to rake over the Heat magazines of years past and ask if the Kids From Fame were so good, how come none of them are famous now?

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4 – Week 12)

Tim — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:37:17 +0000

Another week, another conversation. This time I welcome a terrifyingly well-informed team of Magnus Anderson, Al Ewing and Martin Skidmore to talk about something I (demonstrably, audibly) know very little about – the history, present and practice of comics criticism. Links and other clarifications to follow in the comments.

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4 – Week 11)

Elisha Sessions — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:41:45 +0000

DJ Steve Braiden joins Alex Macpherson and host Elisha Sessions on Resonance FM 104.4 to talk about the furrow of club music being busily excavated by Night Slugs and associated factions. We hear an interview with Girl Unit (aka Phil Gamble), we talk a surprising amount about Red Bull Music Academy, and we hear an in-progress remix from Steve as well as some terrific music from 20-year-old Chilean sensation Nicolas Jaar, Nguzunguzu (did I stutter?), and the as-yet-unreleased “Arpjam” by Jam City.

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, Week 10)

Elisha Sessions — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:00:02 +0000

Guests were Cecily Nowell-Smith, Marna Gilligan and Alasdair MacLean; Hazel Robinson on kn0bs; Mark Sinker was presenter. Topic = how much does it matter to do stuff right, and what’s going on when doing stuff wrong stops being wrong?

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, Week 9)

Elisha Sessions — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:17:55 +0000

This week the Lollards get Popular! No really! Tom Ewing makes his way to the sprawling Resonance FM studios to preview the next entry in his mammoth project. Mark Sinker, Kat Stevens, and host Elisha Sessions join him for a wide-ranging discussion that takes in Terre Thaemlitz, childhood, pop stars’ relationships with their audiences, a logistical breakdown of the iconic video, and our own marks out of 10. Oh yeah, and “Teen Witch” (1989). Please submit your mental image of Shep Pettibone in the comments, please (no web searches allowed!).

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, week 8)

CarsmileSteve — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:53:43 +0000

There was a slight problem with last week’s show, but it will hopefully turn up at some point. In the meantime, here is this weeks Freaky Trigger and The Lollards Of Pop which for once is serious about the serious and silly about the silly. Pete Baran is joined by Anna Fielding, Katie Grocott and Hazel Robinson to talk about the youth of today, yesteryear and show the presenter to be far too old with his pop culture references. Music from Bjork, Musical Youth, Chase & Status and Debbie Gibson. Of course.

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, week 6)

Alan — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:28:37 +0000

Hazel Robinson hosts a discussion of children’s literature and morality tales from Struwwelpeter to Lemony Snicket. Mark Sinker lifts the lid on Victorian nonsense, Julia Heller suggests suitable reading for the “very advanced”, and Tom Ewing goes on a Beast Quest. Will our presenters make it through with thumbs intact? Tune in and find out.

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, week 5)

CarsmileSteve — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:03:49 +0000

Random start point, random guests, random topics. This weeks Lollards is all LOL no LARD, with Kat Stevens, Alix Campbell and Magnus Anderson being herded into opinions about topics they no nothing of by the medium of a fortune telling device and a pound should electronic roulette wheel. So expect discussions of Milford Haven, the Timeline of Glaciation, some future missile and that even at Disneyland Paris there still sin’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind.

Music comes from unmarked CD’s we found at home somewhere.

Freaky Trigger presents A Slug of Pop (series 3, week 4)

katstevens — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:32:08 +0000

A special episode of Lollards this week, as Tom Ewing and Mark Sinker each talk about a pop song of their choice, with Tim Hopkins asking them the difficult questions. How is putting Lakshminarayanan Shankar on your record a crass commercial move? Are Marina’s diamonds her best friends? Why is Lily Allen hopping from one foot to another like she needs the loo? Find out in A Slug Of Pop!

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 4, Week 3

CarsmileSteve — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:58:05 +0000

ART!

This week we talk of art (visual) with Tim, Kat and Rob, including Tony Hart, GCSE coursework, Candice Breitz and Pop about Art. Featuring music from Art Brut, Solange Knowles, Marilyn Manson and Sportique!

Here’s the Tony Hart clip we mention, it’s about three minutes in:

Sorry Tony…

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 4, Week 2

Pete Baran — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:33:47 +0000

Is it safe? Is it safe?

Tim Hopkins, Steve Hewitt and Clare Spencer join me – Pete Baran – flying by the seat of our pants and talking about safety, danger, the extended mix of the Safety Dance, “if I scream if I wanna go faster what do I do if I wanna slow down”, driving lessons, ELEPHANTS = DANGER and far too much time spent discussing iron cords. With music from Half Man Half Biscuit, Alpha Blondy, Blahzay Blahzay and a rubbish Men Without Hats Song.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 4, Week 1

Elisha Sessions — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:01:05 +0000

The Lollards return to Resonance FM 104.4‘s London studio with host Elisha Sessions. He’s joined by Alix Campbell, Magnus Anderson and Alex Macpherson for a discussion of KID POP – kids who sing pop and what pop kids like – not really the same category, as we discover (bling-eyed svengalis take note). We hear singles from our panelists, Frank Kogan talks about old television and why people fall out of love with music, we hear 9-year-old Willow Smith’s new single and of course we share the hotly anticipated results of the FT kid pop poll with you.

Produced by Elisha Sessions.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 15 pt2

Pete Baran — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:50:40 +0000

Pete Baran is joined by Nick Dastoor, Magnus Anderson, Cecily Nowell-Smith and Mark Sinker to talk festivals and the end of the world

(This is for the many podcast clients — we’re looking at you too iTunes — that can’t cope with 2 files per episode.)

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 15

Pete Baran — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:45:08 +0000

After last weeks skip week, Freaky Trigger finishes its epic run with a special double length episode coming LIVE from Glastonbury (sort of). Pete Baran is joined by Nick Dastoor, Magnus Anderson, Cecily Nowell-Smith and Mark Sinker to talk festivals and the end of the world. Which to some is the same thing. Music from Bowie, Young Marble Giants, The The, and many many more. Thank you for listening!

Two hour long podcasts here so we can maintain quality.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 14

Alan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:45:56 +0000

All four sports-bloods: Steve H, Tim E, Tim H and ~~Tim~~Pete B. Featuring Elbow, Horse Man and a song about football.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 13

Alan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:17:27 +0000

Steve H, Magnus A, Hazel R and Julio D give a surprise test. Featuring ~~Mr Kirk’s Nightmare~~ William Shatner, Tiny Tim, Richard Barrett, Tori Amos and… hmm, the Goodies?

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 12

Alan — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:52:39 +0000

Lollards Of POX more like! Pete Baran, Rob Brennan, William Swygart and Bec Toennessen – licensed to ill. Featuring Cherry Melody’s “Chickenpox”, Booker T and the MGs “Chickenpox”, White Stripes “Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine”, Beastie Boys “Time to Get Ill”, the Quincy theme, and Siobhán Donaghy “Medevac”. Feverish about the fanciful, fanciful about the feverish – dropping medicine so you can pick it up. Feel free to tell us that we shouldn’t be so mean about homoeopathy.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 11

Elisha Sessions — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:06:07 +0000

It’s a two-fer today as we finally get last week’s recording sorted out. This week: Fear. Pure fear. Tim Hopkins, Pete Baran, Mark Sinker, Kat Stevens and Elisha Sessions play ostensibly scary music and absolutely no Toby Keith in what must be a Lollards first. All tracks are identified on air – I can’t even remember what they all are now – but I did make good on my promise to play the Billie Jean demo (which is NOT the one floating around on Youtube by the way). Originally broadcast Sat. May 23, 2009 on Resonance FM 104.4.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 10

Elisha Sessions — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:04:04 +0000

pop and politics

host: tim hopkins
guests: mark sinker, alix campbell, al ewing

knobs: carsmile steve hewitt

music: “soul power” by james brown, “fascist groove thang” by heaven 17, “the taliban song” by toby keith, plus politicians’ fave-song medley

we discussed the relationship of soul power to black power, whether funk was fascist, if politicians ever liked the music they said they liked, and if there was such a thing as music for activists

orig. broadcast sat. may 16 at 2:30pm on resonance fm 104.4

Freakytrigger and the Lollards Of Pop: Season 3 Episode 9

Pete Baran — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:24:04 +0000

The second half of the Lollards season kicks off with an playful hour about toys. Well, at least the toys you can talk about on a Saturday afternoon. Pete Baran is joined by Anna S, Kat Stevens and Pippa Ashton to talk about Barbie mutilation, freaky Japanese collectors dolls and children torturing each other. You know for kicks.

Music comes from Daphne And Celeste, Fergie and Missy Elliott, in Resonance FM’s never ending quest to push back the boundaries of music radio.

Additional materials beyond the break:

Totally Hair Barbie ad:

Rappin’ Rockin’ Barbie ad (note minuscule size of boom box):

Scalextric THE WINNER!

And an average Childrens ITV ad break from the mid eighties including more Barbie, Space Lego etc…

And some of the dolls Pippa is talking about
Blythe:

A whole load of Pullip’s

And a Dolphie Flickrstream

Freakytrigger and the Lollards Of Pop: Season 3 Episode 8: Visual Aids

Pete Baran — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:30:51 +0000

Today’s episode of FreakyTrigger and the Lollards Of Pop starring Pete Baran, Anna Fielding, Magnus Anderson and Tom Ewing is on now. Or was when this was posted. The theme is Lost Property and losing it in general. And since with have such trouble referring to visual items on air, I though I would throw some of the pictures here to help you while you listen:

a) The Lost Property In My Office

b) The Future Of Watches Twenty Years Ago

c) The International Library Of Famous Literature Volume XX

I’m waiting for volume XXX.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 7

Alan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:25:44 +0000

“The Trouble With Pop” – a conversation between Tom Ewing, Hazel Robinson, Alex Macpherson and Pete Baran. Featuring Bat for Lashes, Mastodon, Lady Sovereign, Blackout Crew, Gucci Mane and Girls Aloud.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 6

Alan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:49:50 +0000

Musical Euthenasia with Kat, Pete, Sarah and Magnus.

An update on Kat’s work-in-progress, “Hollyoaks The Musical”, takes the Lollards from overture to immature, around Japanese digi-musicals and South Park, and the musical flops of Superman and Carrie. Chess makes them wonder if perhaps there’s any mileage in a musical based on the works of Abba. Hmm.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 5

Alan — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:10:43 +0000

Eli, Mark and Marianna talk false wisdom, regrets, identity and politics. Featuring:

Hotstreak ‘Bodywork’
Adam Ant ‘Goody Two Shoes’
PJ & Duncan AKA ‘Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble’
Sun Ra ‘Love In Outer Space’
Toby Keith ‘I Want To Talk About Me’