Elsewhere:
Horror.
Not entirely sure about this.
Really not sure about this – and a little surprised given the author’s campaign against ‘indie drabness’
Back!
Nostalgia post hints (in comments) at intriguing question – […]

Question for ILB (when it returns): how much of a book do you need to read before you can say you have read it?
(inspired by flippant qn in Orange list comments)[…]

“Why do people go on Wife Swap???”: this is my despairing cry every week. It’s despairing because I know the answer. It’s not just because they want to be famous, really – that’s a harmless enough ambition for all […]

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.[…]