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Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 18

Tracer Hand — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:05:56 +0000

Freaky the Trigger and Her Pop Lollards round off their run with a final show whose contents will come as no surprise to those with a keen sense of the Lollardry ethos. It’s a clip show, in other words. Kind of. Tim, Meg, Steve, Tom, Elisha, Mark, Magnus and Pete test the physical limits of the studio — this is science, after all — by all crowding round the mixing desk. The missing link between King Arthur’s round table and Jay-Z. “How We Do” by Trina feat. Fabolous (not the other way around). And on it goes. Until it stops.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 17

Rick — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:09:51 +0000

The whys and wherefores of cheating with Eli, Tim, Mark and Katie.

Stalking Girls Aloud. Medieval ~~Courtney~~courtly love. Pulling swords out of stones as basis for political legitimacy. The wrong Supermayer. Morality as coolness - a Woman’s Weekly quiz special. Tanya hates Robyn, a listener complains. How ‘Bout Us by Champagne. The role of the sporting villain. Maradona’s excess. 8 is, in fact, greater than 7. Gaming the ref in politics.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 16

Alan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:42:26 +0000

Lost in Trance-Nation: Mark leads the way with Alix, Alan, Meg and Steve on Knobs.

Hammering tongues - is Cornish past-it? Pit Er Pat ‘Pyramids’. Lost in mazes, shops and computer games. Presets “Down Down Down”. Sporting rituals to ward off losing, and music to lose by, in which The Lollards finally play some Cast. This week’s midweek download #1 is Connie Francis “If It Takes Forever”

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 15

Alan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:58:05 +0000

This week we’re privy to a ‘drinking establishment focus group’. Tom leads, Tim, Pete, Sarah
and Magnus follow. Drinking songs as a chaser.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 14

Alan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:02:32 +0000

Time Team: Eli, Mark, Kat and Katie.

Something has happened to Tanya. Making haste to chase lollards reach… 2007. And run amok. But what of free-will, butterflies (and Ashton Kutchner)? Arthur and You’s “Black Bear” retro stylings. Mark lives for the moment, and internet flash games. But what if you could go back in time and kill Hitler and CarSmile Steve? Crystal Waters “I Believe I Love Ya” and the fate of “one hun dred percent, puuure love”. Kat’s memory plays tricks on her. Our midweek number 1 is Sunshine Anderson “Heard It All Before”

All this has happened before.

And will happen again.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 13

Alan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:27:38 +0000

In a field of their own: Magnus, Katie and Ewings Tom and Al.

A song of two halves. The RAH Band’s terrific ‘Clouds Across The Moon’. Marvel’s stock aliens. Ellen Allien’s ‘Wish’. Tolkien’s footling theories on the essence of Fairy Story. Fleet Foxes sing. “Aslan” magazine and improv RPGs.

With a twist - GASP. The midweek number 1 is Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds. OR IS IT?

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 12

Alan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:43:45 +0000

Mostly Moomins and Kid Lit with Sarah, Dr Vick/Quack, Tom, Pete and Steve on the knobs.

Moomins animation (v Roland Rat v He Man). What is the comet? Unease and a-moralising kids books. Ed Gorey. Position Normal - “Nostrils and Eyes”. Tom calls “Uncle” and the “New Mother”. Toy Story II and The Saddest Song in the World. It is. Closing remarks. Midweek number 1 is Man 2 Man?

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 11

Alan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:05:36 +0000

Sorry excuses and polite engineering. With Alix, Sarah, Magnus and Rob.

A husband list update. Moloko ‘Sorry’, eventually. Polite vampires and ghosts. Insults from Hergé and Rabelais. Politeness is bad for Magnus. Some song, possibly Abba. Shrigley ‘My Beer’. Expensive booze. Star Turn On 45 Pints ‘Pump Up The Bitter’. All consuming petty irritations make you… bitter. Another song. Recipe gripes. The midweek number 1 is Marnie Stern ‘Patterns on a Diamond Ceiling’

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 10

Alan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:34:49 +0000

Scary Monsters and Super Freaks-ytriggers: Pete Baran, Alix Campbell, Ewings Tom and Al, with Steve Hewitt in the crypt.

A monster Monster FITE! (Oh yes.) Some corrections. Bob McFadden and Dor “I’m A Mummy” (and “Kookie Lend Me Your Comb”). Monster comics from space and zombie superheroes. Spock sings “A Visit to a Sad Planet” (ahhhh, do you see, for that Sad Planet is…) Frightened by music, disease and nuclear war. “The First Five Minutes After Death”. John Carpenter’s “Halloween Theme” and some Vampire Weekend track or another.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 9

Pete Baran — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:54:42 +0000

Nuncle Carsmile Steve presides over an hour of the finest radio lolling with his consummate guests (they were consummated in the studio) Magbot Anderson, Eli Sessions and Kat Stevens. In this episode of theme-time radio some stuff happens, I know not what yet as I haven’t heard it yet, though there is almost certainly some sort of “And British People dance like this” material from Eli cos he’s a septic and that always seems to be the way these things shake out.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 8

Alan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:47:34 +0000

Politics, Pop and the Pub with Elisha Sessions, Pete Baran, Tim Hopkins and Alix Campbell

Campaign Themes. Mark Wills “Nineteen Something”. Glastonbury Twitter from the future. Fiery Furnaces “Benton Harbour Blues (reprise)”. Some Pub History (much of it true). A bit of Charles Title “The Eight Seasons of Chromalox” and a splash of Charlton Lido. The midweek #1 is… Obama Girl “Got a Crush on Obama”

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 7

Alan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:37:30 +0000

International Pop, with Sarah Clarke, Kat Stevens, Tom Ewing, Magnus Anderson and Elisha Sessions on knobs.

“Ha Ha” (?) mucky foreign pop. The “Game of Seduction” requires you to make a seduction roll. The Spanish for ‘busted’. Threads vs the cosy apocalypse Inc. Stump v Scooter. The rules of dirty chicken. Fall go “Free Range”.

WARNING: contains swears!

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 6

Alan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:42:25 +0000

UPDATE: WE HAS A PODCAST

I haven’t listened to it all yet, so I still don’t know what happened in it either.

Long live the podcast

Post-Loll: Its Just Not Rollerball

Pete Baran — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:11:08 +0000

OK, from the FUTURESPORTS desk on last nights FT & The Lollards Of Pop we first take a look at Keirin which chief engineer Carsmile Steve cited as the closest we get to Rollerball in actual sport. OK, there is a scooter involved SOMETIMES, but as texted by Rick to us after the show, Keirin has been around since 1948, with the role of the scooter/motorbike often been taken up by a racing tandem instead. What soon transpires from the Wikipedia page is that Keirin is two different sports really. The super serious pro-betting sport in Japan, and the rest of the world who might do it in the Olympics. In Japan standards of fairness are rigourously applied, in as much as all the bikes (bar the scooter of course) must be of identical standardised make. Which actually seems pretty fair: no knocking up bikes from washing machines in that version of the game. Basically Keirin is probably the purest form of velodrome speed cycling when there is an attempt to reduce wind turbulence* until optimum speed is reached. It also uses a repechage system for qualification, which is nice because repechage is a terrific word**. They tried to hold a Keirin race in London this year but nobody came.

BUT Keirin, for all its use of an electrical scooter (or what seems to be a gas guzzling moto-cross bike in that photo nicked from Wikipedia) is not Rollerball. The scooter is an extraneous thing, not used in the actual competitive part of the race, and there are no spiked shoulderpads involved. Want to play actual Rollerball? Here are the full rules, including technical specifications if you want to set up your own track and team. Also the rules to the version in the 2002 remake by John McTeirnan: rightly ridiculed by the web-compiler as they basically boil down to this quote from the film: “There’s only one way to score and that’s when a player takes one of the balls and flings it at one of the iron bowls hard enough to set off the pyro. As for the rest of the rules, well, the rest of the rules are Russian and complicated…” For completeness sake, here’s a short essay about the evolution of the various versions of Rollerball. There is an argument in these articles that Rollerball would actually work as a sport, and indeed that some of the stunt artists*** after the 1975 movie was a hit tried to set up a league. This article on the physics of Rollerball might explain why that might be a bad idea…

None of this comes close of course to Aldous Huxley’s Centrifugal Bumble Puppy. Not much is said about the game in Brave New World beyond the following, suggesting her was better at naming than gaming:

“The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy. Twenty children were grouped in a circle round a chrome steel tower. A ball thrown up so as to land on the platform at the top of the tower rolled down into the interior, fell on a rapidly revolving disk, was hurled through one or other of the numerous apertures pierced in the cylindrical casing, and had to be caught.”

That said, it does illustrate muc of the point of Huxley’s book. It is basically a game of catch with a needless piece of technology in the middle. HELLO SCRABULOUS!!! But luckily the internet also being a version of centrifugal bumble-puppy someone has already written about this in a very Lollard friendly way. Read Citizen Player vs Centrifugal Bumble Puppy, as it weaves Huxley, 2000AD, the Arcade Fire and David Milliband into an interesting idea of what internet communities might be.

*Mentioned briefly in a second, the terrible film Slipstream notable for
a) Being a windy dystopia
b) Starring Mark Hamill
c) Featuring The Big Area by Then Jericho as its theme.

**Clearly a French method developed on the Planet Of The French so that they do not lose at all sports.

***One of Rollerball’s claims to fame is that it was supposedly the first Hollywood film to properly name its stuntmen in its closing credits. Leading to the end of the Unknown Stuntman that Lee Majors sings about here.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 5

Rick — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:31:23 +0000

Kat’s year 3000 high school paper. Why training apes is a bad idea. Extropians as cybermen. Ray Kurzweil’s argument by graph. Darren Hayes hits a time lock. Tobias X Future warns of death by bacon. Nostradamus predicts Hitler, Mother Shipton predicts lady trousers. Futurists love their food. The Free Design. Rollerball makes no sense. Future sport as war. Centrifugal bumble puppy. David Bowie’s drum and bass is 2005 years out of date. Utopias don’t exist. Busted STILL fancy their teacher.

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

Alan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:26:51 +0000

Featuring: Eli Sessions, Tom Ewing, Dave ‘Avenue’ Queen and Mark Sinker.

BOOGIE. Jimmy Blythe ‘Chicago Stomp’. Taste of Honey ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’. The plight of the wedding and office party DJ. Fat Les ‘Naughty Christmas (Goblin in the Office)’. Tanya’s ‘Scooby Doo’ albums. Milo Twins ‘Truck Driver’s Boogie’. Sam the Sham ‘Wooly Bully’. Boogie and funky, bogarts, bogling and bogies. A halloween list. Slade ‘Pook Hill’. Hot Chocolate ‘Mindless Boogie’. Anna Kaufen (Akufen) ‘Sneak Preview’

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 3

Alan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:18:53 +0000

Toby Keith is The Angry American. Arno Peters is a ~~lying~~misleading swine (and German), the size of Brazil, the world in the shape of a heart. The sound of rattling pots and pans “Dude, this is Resonance”. Tanya targets the murderer Richard Marx. Sporting National Anthems. The amazing Hey Say Jump’s World Volleyball Championship Theme. The role of bumpkins, poachers and yokels. The midweek number one - congratulations to Swell Maps.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 2

katstevens — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:30 +0000

Week 2 of our new series on Resonance FM coincides with No Music Day - listen below for a speech-filled hour of murder mysteries, secret passages, blood-thirsty bouts and a quick round of Am I CSI Or Not?

Remember to listen along to the tracks posted earlier on today, but don’t tell Bill Drummond - shhh!

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 2 (Pre-Record information)

Pete Baran — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:16:02 +0000

Hello everyone! Its Wednesday, its 7pm so harken up to the sweet sounds of Saltarello drifting across your Resonance airwaves. EXCEPT YOU WON’T! Because today is NO MUSIC DAY as decreed by Bulldog Drummond and his trusty service revolver, and thus we will not be playing any music AT ALL tonight. At least one of our contributors is probably happy (Tanya!).

Anyway, we have decided to comply with this ban, but in a 21st C rebellion sort of way we will leave you the bits and bobs for you to cut and paste your own show together the way Mom would have made it. Thus at 7pm we suggest you turn on the radio and play the first track below - (Saltarello the FTATLOP Theme). Fade when we start talking.

THEN when we instruct you, AND NOT BEFORE, play Track 1. This is Tom’s track
THEN when we instruct you, AND NOT BEFORE, play Track 2. This is Sarah’s track.
THEN when we instruct you, AND NOT BEFORE (but safe bet it will be near the end of the show) play track 3, the UK’s midweek illegally downloaded number one.

I daresay we will knit it all together too in a bumper edition, like you would expect, but tonight you will will be priviliged to hear snippits of the “Behind The Scenes” conversations we have when the music is playing. So join me you mumbling host Peter Baran, my scintillating guests Alix Campbell, Sarah Clarke and Tom Ewing plus special guest Tanya Headon and a letter from Tajikistan (not forgetting ace nobsman Rob Brennan on the ace nobs) at 7pm on Resonance 104.4 for Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of ???

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Series 2, Week 1

Alan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:28:19 +0000

Freaky Trigger’s radio escapades continue to The Next Level. Here’s the episode as originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM between 7 and 8pm earlier this evening.

HAIR, sprouting from a new location. Hosted by Mark. What has gone before? (And why?) Britney has a plan. Kat’s entirely explicable Victorian hair fixation and a dubious graph. Magnus’s doffable clothing. New Seeker’s Pinball Wizard. The Teen Forecast. 2 Unlimited. Katie susses sunseed. And announcing the Midweek Number One…

Specially brought to you from us, the good people at www.freakytrigger.com :-)

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Week 14

Rick — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:30:32 +0000

PIE from Cornwall. Host Eli, guests Mark, Cis and Pete (and Steve). focus group discussion, Steal the Brain, pi (proof of non-existence of god), Jean Laffite by Puerto Muerte, pi (proof of existance of god), miss you - m-flow etc, corvids specifically magpies, various people lollipop, PIE FOREVER, apple pie a la mode - destiny's child, big thanks, dreadful cliff hanger, cherry pie - warrant.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Week 13

Rick — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:41:14 +0000

MOCK from the Virtual Glastonbury Booking Office. Host Tim, guests Katie, Magnus and Emma (and Mark). The FT periodic table, Radio Times Cool Poll, Mock Meat taste test, Blaze - The Arsonists, reinvention of transformers, what else should we reinvent, that song off the advert, Ghostwatch, Tanya and China Crisis, Baby Names inc Shiloh Pitt, also names in general, The Name of the Game - Abba, Take Back your Duck - The Inspirations or not.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Week 12

Rick — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:44:30 +0000

LIE from the Long Island Expressway. Host Tom for a second until Eli arrrives, guests Tom, Alan and Alix (and Pete). McCoys crisp eating, Young Girls and Happy Endings - Gorkys, Hoaxes (again), Eli's confusion at spaghetti hoax, the cardiff giant, Tanya and Lionel Ritchie, Margaret Berger - Robot Song, filling gaps in people's brains, the unreliability of vision, the unreliability of pete, korsakov's syndrome, is you is or is you aint my baby - buster brown, aliases on the internet and second life, Untrue Unfaithful - Nina Rossi.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Week 11

Rick — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:35:18 +0000

HOUND from Sirius. Host Kat, guests Sarah, Alix and Katie (and Steve). Gin inna can, Crufts 1, crossbreeds, Friends for Life, Dogs were Barking - Gogol Bordello, Dogging Forecast, baconbaconbaconbacon, dogfood, Stop Me - The Smiths, eating yorkies, Crufts 2, stuffed dogs, dog names, wagatha christie, air bud digression, it's a dog life - ??, Crufts 3, good dog/bad dogs, Maximise - Rex the Dog.

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop - Week 10

Rick — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:26:25 +0000

CLASS from the Maze of Zagor. Host Tom, guests Mark, Alex and Magnus (and Pete). Things that have changed in britain, death of capt america/baudrillard, reggae reggae sauce, Surrender - Cheap Trick, reflections on genre, Kronos Quartet - Spoonful, more genre, Little Drummer Boy - Joan Jett, school stories and digression into where people went to school, stalky and the bash st kids, Making Plans for Nigel - Nouvelle Vague, Role-Playing Games and character class, Eton Rifles - The Jam.