The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2015: #40-#31 3 Jan 2016 "Hi there kids, I'm an anthropomorphised visualisation of the online streaming service Tidal. This year has been a veritable whirlpool of activity for me, trying to remind people that I…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2017: #10-#1 28 Jan 2018 "Wotcher me old muckers. I'm Nena's 100th Red Balloon, the one edited out of the final version of the song because I 'wouldn't scan proper'. We only come in packs…
Unheard Album Project: February 2017 1 Mar 2017 These are 27 of the 28 albums I listened to for the first time in February as part of this project. (The 28th, Joanna Newsom's Divers, is not on Spotify:…
2017 Albums I Like Part 1 1 Apr 2017 Thanks to the Unheard Album Project (March mix on its way!) I am finally in a position where I can ACTUALLY DO a list of the records I've enjoyed most…
Top 100 Tracks Of The 2010s Part 1 10 Jan 2020 I've been running this on the Patreon - available to patrons of any tier - but the intention has always been to export the entries onto this site in chunks.…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2015: #10-#1 22 Jan 2016 "Yojne! - 01 Pot gnilffuhs-zzaj, gnikcilc-regnif lanif eht s'ereh, yawyna! Ekil I mug taht ekil, elyts ni kcab emoc ll'yeht yllufepoh. Selit eht htiw yoj on tub, sniatruc der eht…
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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
3 Oct 2004
In search of Squirrel – Part two (warning, contains graphic images) Some of you may remember this article I wrote some time ago about my “failure” as a vegetarian and my quest for the different. Well, I’ve done it. Squirrel had become a bit of an obsession, I’d chased up all sorts of alleys (Julian […]
23 Mar 2014
#773, 13th September 1997 “Whenever we played that live there would be rows of grown men crying. It was almost like these guys couldn’t cry when they needed to cry, but that song operated like a pressure valve for them and it was okay for them to cry at a big rock concert.” – Richard […]
12 Mar 2010
People in the Popular comments boxes are talking about “the canon”. I’m always quite curious as to which bits of the canon have ‘taken’ with a broadly pop-positive audience such as we have here. So here’s a poll, very easy to fill in, just say which of the Top 50 albums OF ALL TIME EVER […]
3 Apr 2017
So for a while myself and Pamela Hutchinson, of Silent London fame have been talking about doing a more regular podcast. And while we love talking about silent films, we also like new films too. And so The Sound Barrier was born over a Campari Spritz or four, we take a new release and we […]
24 Jan 2010
Here at Freaky Trigger we have realised that January has been a bit slow with output. A new year can put new strains upon our writers and what with Tom’s Guardian column and me embarking on a year without cinema, pickings have been slim. What was needed was something that would galvanise all the writers, […]
29 Sep 2014
#817, 21st February 1999 How was I supposed to know that something wasn’t right? It was a gilded age: the commercial zenith of the music industry at the end of the 20th century. In America, its apex as a money-making force came in 1999 when – adjusted for inflation – $71 per head was spent […]
8 Jun 2010
Here we are, at last. Here we stand at the summit of Pop Football achievement, looking back at 63 matches: some wonderful, some perplexing, some illuminating, very few boring. We’ve heard so much pop, enjoyed so many marvellous moments, and we have 30 losing managers to thank for all their research and taste. Never mind […]
