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Amel Larrieux – “Gills And Tails”
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Fishy business.[…]

Quantum Leap Year
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We’re not really sure what happened. This week the Lollards went back in time to 2007 allegedly trying to rescue Tanya. Tanya herself called FT Towers yesterday asking for an explanation. I didn’t have one and then something strange happe[…]

Europop 2008 Schedule
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Thanks for the interest in Europop 2008 – here’s the list of participants and countries so far.
EUROPOP 2008 MANAGERIAL LIST (an asterix indicates I don’t have your email – please email me at leagueofpop@gmail.com and say hi![…]

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Dolly Parton – “Drives Me Crazy”
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“Good to listen to back-to-back with some up-n-coming young starlets”[…]

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that resonance fm time machine in full
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Click on this tantalizing thumbnail for a full schematic. (Credit goes to goopymart.com)
For more on how this wormhole faff works, you know what to do. Just click here.[…]

Blackbeard Blog
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I have started a new blog – separate from Freaky Trigger because it’s more about the kind of things I think about in my day job: market research, marketing, branding, etc. However it’s intended for people interested in those things[…]

Hands in the air like you don’t care
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One of my ongoing dream projects is to do some research exploring possible links between the generation who lived through punk in the 1970s, with its apparent ideal of radical change, and the way radical business change has become a kind of ideology […]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 2, Week 14
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Time Team: Eli, Mark, Kat and Katie. Something has happened to Tanya. Making haste to chase lollards reach… 2007. And run amok. But what of free-will, butterflies (and Ashton Kutchner)? Arthur and You’s “Black Bear” retro stylings. Mark lives for the moment, and internet flash games. But what if you could go back in time and kill Hitler and CarSmile Steve? Crystal Waters “I Believe I Love Ya” and the fate of “one hun dred percent, reeeal love”. Kat’s memory plays tricks on her. Our midweek number 1 is Sunshine Anderson “Heard It All Before”

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Neon Neon – “I Told Her On Alderaan”
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“Unlikely pop gem of the year so far”[…]

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BRANDWATCH: Twix Fits! In A Milkshake?
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Aahh, the wacky gang at Mars. Is there no craven brand extension they will not try? I thought post Bisc& they had dialled down the rampant dilution of their brands. And dilute is indeed what they have done now with the somewhat uncalled for TWIX[…]

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