The People's Pop Poll: Day 2 6 May 2020 These are the groups for Day 2 of the People’s Pop Poll! Obviously it contains SPOILERS for the day’s matches so if you’d prefer to be surprised read no further!…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2016: #40-#31 6 Jan 2017 "'Allo. My name is René Artois, cafe owner and reluctant assistant to the Resistance. You may be wondering what I am doin 'ere, at the top of a German communications…
King William’s College Kwizz 2019. FT Round 14 6 Feb 2020 Round and round and round: 1 what slope is now chronometric? 2 where is a duck bill followed by a dive? 3 where might there be help from the north-westerly? 4 what recalls the twin child nurtured by…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2017: #20-#11 18 Jan 2018 "Hi there, I'm the Heart of the Ocean, a fictional diamond necklace made famous by Britney asking whether I'd been chucked in the Atlantic Ocean or not when actually I…
King William’s College Kwizz 2019. FT Round 2 30 Dec 2019 1 which Aberdonian became a general in the Tsar’s army? 2 what is the traditional site of pilgrimage in the last Sunday in July? 3 whose father practised inoculation until…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2016: #30-#21 13 Jan 2017 Greetings! I'm the Toilet Duck and I'm here to solve all your problems! It's easy (*quack*) when I'm on your team. With my catchy tunes and the help of my…
The Inaugural FreakyTrigger TV Poll: #24 – #13 9 Feb 2018 Hi we're the Telebugs, unloved 80's British cartoon characters who traded on British kids loves of robots and television and still failed to create a following across our 88 tedious…
King William’s College Kwizz 2019. FT Round 7 15 Jan 2020 Where: 1 were we 76 for 7? 2 did the Donkey kick off northward? 3 did Gurney reward Lightborn by stabbing him? 4 does Monti’s Father Thames overlook the first…
About the Author
writer and editor bit by bit fashioning a history of the UK music press HERE https://www.patreon.com/marksink3r/posts
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 […]
29 Oct 2010
#641, 3rd February 1990 Sinead O’Connor is one of the finest song interpreters not just because she thinks hard about the material and the feelings locked in it, but because she’s so good at placing songs into a situation. A great example of this is her version of “Chiquitita”, warm and homely where ABBA’s is […]
28 Dec 2019
REASON: Welcome one and welcome all, to the FreakyTrigger wing of a KWIZZ (quiz) sat for a hundred and blimey years by Isle of Man schoolkids. (“Please return your answers to the Principal’s Office by Monday 13th January.”) RHYME: Themed sets of 10 questions each — a new one every day (or so). COLLABORATIN’ COMMENT […]
24 Dec 1999
Low’s Christmas tree is a simple one, with eight plain wooden baubles. The band write four tracks themselves, offer interpretations of two carols and crooners’ favourite “Blue Christmas”, and nobody’s bothered to take credit for “Taking Down The Tree” (but it sounds like one of Low’s own). The record is packaged – beautifully – like […]
21 Dec 2009
Well, that’s that: the machine has been given a good beating and we can look forward to “Bulls On Parade” on the festive Argos ad next year. I will admit I didn’t think the RATM crew could do it: I was wrong. But as the dust settles on this most fractious and increasingly entertaining Christmas […]
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 […]
15 Aug 2007
On my eleventh birthday I received a copy of a tape called “Rave ’92” through the post from my sister Grace, who was away at university. It was the second tape she had made for me whilst she was away, (the first being a random mix of grebo, soul, indie and ‘Love Shack’ by the […]
15 Aug 2006
The Notorious Bettie Page is a film about the good old days of porn. You know, when it wasn’t exploitative, and all the girls portrayed within were not only fun loving conspirators in an art project, but believed in Jeebus too. Most film about porn are about the good old days. Inside Deep Throat told […]