Lollards Podcast

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

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

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

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

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. … read on …

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

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

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

Toby Keith is The Angry American. Arno Peters is a lyingmisleading 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

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? … read on …

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

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

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…

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