People often say to me, this hating music malarkey must be a lonely profession. Well, my inbox is always open to perusal by naysayers to see how many people agree with me. Take Mark Turrell. I know nothing of him but just the other day he sent me a l[…]

Further perusal of the historic pub interiors list shows that we have most certainly been sold a pub with theis CAMRA survey. When is a restoration not a refit after all? Of the five pubs in Central London with authentic pub interiors, two are Sam Sm[…]

What is it about Crazy In Love, by Beyonce* that makes me think it isn’t finished. It just does not quite have a chorus, which bugs me a touch but considering the rest of the tune is a jittery, brass-led piece of brilliance it does not bother m[…]

CAMRA weeps: The Guardian reports on CAMRA’s report on pub heritage. It’s interesting that this pops up the week after Pete and I found ourselves inveighing against CAMRA’s failure to obsess about the pub environment. I’ve or[…]

Well, it obviously wasn’t music lessons was it.[…]

THE CORAL
I’m not an active person, but even a gin-swilling queen of the London social scene gets to go down to the seaside every now and then. I have little use for water in my dad to day life unless in its sparkling solid form making merry wi[…]

TOM’S GLASTONBURY SPECIAL TOP 10
JUNIOR SENIOR – “Twist And Shout/Push It”
BEYONCE feat JAY-Z – “Crazy In Love”
THE DARKNESS – “Street Spirit”
THE RAPTURE – “House Of Jealous Lov[…]

Freaky Trigger has a new e-mail address: freakytrigger at hotmail dot com (click on that link to say hello to us). This one is accessible to all editorial staff so your mail has a better chance of being read, replied to etc etc.
The first thing you c[…]

I certainly would not have wanted to be the person to write the main song for the Charlie’s Angels sequel. How do you even get close to both the outstanding brilliance of Independent Woman Part 1 or indeed how do you dovetail the fun of the son[…]

DJ FORMAT – The Hit Song
In which yet another one of those incessant stream of turntablists hooks up with a lousy no mark MC to make a hip-hop record. DJ Format is a UK turntablist, for which read someone who wants to be in hip-hop but realised[…]