The Freaky Trigger Readership Survey: it shouldn’t take more than five minutes and it’ll be really useful to me! Thanks.[…]

THELONIOUS MONK – “This is My Story, This is My Song” (from Straight, No Chaser)
When I read the name of the song on the CD in the store I’m not sure I really made the connection, but it hit me immediately, profoundly, once I […]

The UK Number Ones – and it is just that. A complete list, and the best I’ve seen. Nice little facts, links to band sites and the chance to look up what was number one at key points in your life. Captain Sensible was at number one when I […]

PULP: The Early Years
Accounts tell us that, prior to achieving fame, Pulp made pretentious art-wank for Fire Records. Some may argue, yours truly included, that the only things that have changed are that the band is a lot older now and the label is […]

PULP: Rock Star Cock Star
Jarvis’ flashed his arse at Mikey (in the animal kingdom a gesture of submission to an alpha male – it is a mark of Jarvo’s weediness that he could even subconsciously consider Michael Jackson an alpha male[…]

PULP: Candida’s Camera
Behind every great man there is a great woman – so the saying goes. So conversely, behind every jumped up talentless twat there is an equally talentless gormless chick swaying badly behind a selection of keyboards s[…]

PULP: Answer to Jarvis’ Questions
“Is this the way the say the future’s meant to feel
Or just 20,000 people standing in a field?”
Its twenty thousand people stick-insect lad, and they are all after your blood. The future does […]

PULP: The Steve Wright Connection
Remember when Steve Wright did his hopelessly unfunny Radio One program in the late eighties? Around the jingles, the appaling music and the so-called “characters” (Mr Angry is not a character – its[…]

PULP: Unsung Heroes
Every great comedian needs a straight man, and the career of Pulp shows that dreadful unintentional comedians need them too. Jarvis rightly earns the champion’s portion of hate here, but let’s spare a thought for his l[…]

PULP: Disco 2000
Disco 2000, which tanked in the charts at New Year and thus gloriously failed to provide Jarv and the lads with the pension-fund payoff they’d so cynically hoped for, is famous for several reasons. First off it ripped off a pis[…]