Vodou Nation is essentially an allegorical rock opera about Haiti’s troubled past, from the slave rebellion and the founding of the first independent black state, to the continuing struggle against leaders corrupted by money, alcohol and sex. H[…]

Club Freaky Trigger is back – and, by popular demand, it’s going to be on a Thursday. Two Thursdays, in fact.
29th July and 26th August.
Both at The Chapel Bar, Islington, from 7 until closing time, playing the usual mixture of big pop tu[…]

OH. MY. GOD. CSI totally proves my Grand Theory of Media (which is viz = that if you omit engagement with [whatever] from the appropriate forum, then it simply re-merges, return-of-the-repressed styleee, elsewhere, in some unpoliced or disconsidered[…]

Further to Matt’s tale of wine temperature
I found this on the usually excellent egullet, it seems that the ideal room temperature is a little chillier than the average UK or US house (which is about 22C iirc).[…]

FT Top 100 Films
64: MY FAIR LADY
Mo’ puns. Very few people get the “My Fair Lady” / “Mayfair Lady” joke implied by the title as Eliza Doolittle would pronounce it. Perhaps they shouldn’t, since the adaptation from[…]

Trig Brother Gets Evil.
The 31st July, London’s trendy and no longer sleezy Soho, plays host to TRIG BROTHER 4. Is it a pub crawl. Is it a game show. Is it a blatent popularity contest (no – if you see whose won it in the past). One thing[…]

ALL FREAKY TRIGGER CONTRIBUTORS PLEASE READ!*
In Blogger you have two names – your ‘display name’ and your ‘first’ and ‘last’ name. On Freaky Trigger the ‘display name’ appears on the RSS feed (i.[…]

In this seasonal travel period I thought I would share with you the ins and outs (quite literally in my case) of motion or travel sickness.
The trad view of motion sickness is that it occurs where the brain receives conflicting messages from the visu[…]

Girls I do adore: General feeling* seems to be that The Prodigy have pulled it off and that “Girls” has them back on firing form. A few radio encounters in I’m not convinced. It’s not a bad record, let alone an awful one, but […]

I watched four films in the course of a sickie yesterday, so I’m not about to hand in my cinephile badge and gun, but the six-bleedin’-hour-long ‘Best of Youth’ has defeated my scheduling. I just can’t find two evenings […]