Freaky Trigger’s September issue is now online, with a good number of music-related articles.
– The Pinefox on the ATP festival.
– Alex Thomson on the Thrills and Adorno.
– Jerry The Nipper on Paul Morley’s book.
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Freaky Trigger, September 2003: what is there for Brown Wedge readers? There’s Jerry the Nipper on Paul Morley, Al Ewing interviewing up-and-coming comics artist Dom Reardon, and me writing about – among other things – continuity in[…]

Are you a real fan? The ultimate question to anyone at a football match or who defines themselves as a football fan. It’s a question that’s never answered in the negative and is usually rhetorical. Real fans never get asked it, and if yo[…]

Introducing Proven By Science, by Geeta Dayal
I usually cringe when I see a science story in a newspaper, magazine, or worst of all, TV. ‘CANCER TREATMENT FOUND’, they trumpet. ‘HOW VITAMINS CAN MAKE YOU SMARTER’. Often, the[…]

There are no links up over on the right hand side of this page. This isn’t some grand we-stand-alone gesture. Apart from anything else, we don’t stand alone. I can’t offer any excuses except to say that I haven’t done anything[…]

Watching the England game in the pub on Saturday, we saw Wayne Rooney score that goal, and a predictable cheer went up. When the replays were going on I looked around me and was surprised at what I saw.
In response to one of the less explicable piec[…]

Sporting Trophies and what they say about the organisations that commissioned them – An occasional series
Number 1 – The FIFA World Cup

Sporting trophies don’t appear to have figured much in the way of criticism; like much of sport[…]

There was some bloke who recently wrote a book about television programmes. Not my idea of fun, but a much more respectable job than writing about pop music in the positive. However as part of this tome he decided to subject himself to a comparative […]

The Aberdeen Angus Steak House I have always been assured is some sort of money laundering operation. Think about it. They have well over twenty restaurants in prime locations in central London. To your tax inspector in Bradford or East Kilbride this[…]

You’re not from round ‘ere: I’m delighted to see FT’s sports coverage kick off with a fine article by Dave Boyle. He’s right to be sick of the jeering insistence on authenticity which runs through so much football cultur[…]