Here’s an idea – Pop Swap! Two people swap record collections (OK, not the whole record collection, say 20-30 CDs each or digital equiv.) for a week AND provide ‘rules’ regarding their typical use of the music – when the[…]

OWEN BRADLEY – “Big Guitar”
I downloaded this minor 1958 hit while browsing on a whim my old USENET stamping grounds – the 60s-and-earlier MP3 groups turn out to still be well worth a look if you’re interested in older s[…]

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[…]

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.[…]

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 […]

Pointless Pictures Of Nice Things #1

The ones sitting on my desk are all snow white. A colleague has brought them back from Italy. I am trying vainly to think of good reasons not to snaffle the whole huge packet.[…]

Making your pets work for you.[…]

How to popularise botany?: two crass routes spring to mind. The first is FLESH-EATING PLANTS. The second is DRUGS. Neither is open to a family attraction like The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Well, OK, you could try for the flesh-eating plants thing[…]

The Square Table: 2/ The Ordinary Boys – “Talk Talk Talk”
Pop Rating: 407 Controversy Score: 204 Length:
Yelling the words “grey and boring” in your chorus is tempting fate, and sure enough fate rears up and grabs the[…]

In The Beginning…: in this month’s Edge magazine Stephen Poole says some interesting things about how games begin. He contrasts them with other cultural forms, where the intro or opening scenes or first paragraphs often try to make as muc[…]