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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 18. The AlkoholiKs – Only When I’m Drunk
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The AlkoholiKs – Only When I’m Drunk: A review by Alix
I liked this song in 2003 or sometime in the past when this list was compiled and I was mostly drunk. I do not look back on this period in my life with much fondness or pride (or clar[…]

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Alcohol is in its DNA
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Matt tweeted this cheeky little fella a while ago as the worst drink ever:

Alcoholic Spring Water. Are we assuming that some clever account exec noticed that “people like to drink water?” “Water, its the beverage that goes with eve[…]

Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 6
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Our Group F round-up sees Roger Bozack still Missing In Action (or Mr Inaction as his wife calls him) so iPete Baran and Steve Mannion continue their coverage in South Africa. The metal hell of Italy vs Paraguay, the sweetness of New Zealand vs Slova[…]

Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 5
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Our Group E round-up sees Roger Bozack off to cover the Pop Winter olympics so it falls to analyst Pete Baran to helm the coverage in South Africa. The first all Europe tie, Denmark vs Netherlands, followed by the very intriguing Camaroon vs Japan. P[…]

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The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 7: The Head Of Steam / Doric Arch, Euston
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This is the only pub on our list to have changed hands, its name and still retained a degree of quality. We came into the new millennium with this odd station pub being called the Head Of Steam, and left with the much grander name of the Doric Arch. […]

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BIS WEEK: How Bis Are Responsible For Twilight
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The short answer would be the Secret Vampire Soundtrack, but it would only be a superficial answer. Sure Secret Vampires makes explicit the link between vampirism and pop music, but you would be hard pushed to think that it is any particular clarion […]

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BIS WEEK: Which Is The Best Bis?
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It has been the question on everyones lips this week, which exactly is the Best Bis? We bring you the final of this hard fought battle below:
(Note: The department of Business & Information and Skills had a hard fought battle to third place, mai[…]

BIS Week: What Is Bis’s Favourite BIScuit
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Often in scholarly discussions of the revolutionary impact of Bis on the cultural scene in the late nineties, little notice is taken of the trivial. Nevertheless to understand exactly how the Teen-C revolution came about, sometimes the trivial become[…]

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THIS IS BIS WEEK
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Here at Freaky Trigger we have realised that January has been a bit slow with output. A new year can put new strains upon our writers and what with Tom’s Guardian column and me embarking on a year without cinema, pickings have been slim. What w[…]

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The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 10: The Pakenham Arms, Mount Pleasant
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There are two words that according to modern usage I pronounce wrong. I will hold my hand up to “Colander” – which I pronounce “cullander” to rhyme with Wallander* as a throwback to believing it etymology being tied to t[…]

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