Stealth Marketing is getting some people talking on ILE. I have never been able to work out how a stealth marketing business model can work – the ‘audience reach’ for these walking adverts must be amazingly low, microscopically low […]

Idiot Pete! – it’s not “Pink Clove”, it’s “Pink Cloves“, a search for which takes you right here.
NB Words are failing me when it comes to describing the Pink Cloves experience – maybe later.
NNB My God[…]

Angus On Dr Who (also K-Punk). I’m sure I’ve said before on FT that Talons and similar Dr Who stories are where the series’ BBC origin really shows – period costume drama was one of the Corporation’s great strengths arou[…]

RED PLASTIC BAG – “Arthritis”
I can’t even remember what kind of process led me to this, which is fine since I can hardly work out what kind of process led it to exist either. What is it? It’s a soca tune about arthritis[…]

Betjeman Beat: this is a piece I wrote in 2000 and had completely forgotten about until today. Rather neatly, it’s also the first archive piece we’re republishing – look for one old bit of FT each week (and new stuff too, of course)[…]

Go Ape Crazy! – a Freaky Trigger article by Anthony Easton exploring the idea ape in myth, film and pop culture. Hopefully FT will be putting up one or two new articles a week from now on, ideally on a Friday so I can go to the pub feeling vagu[…]

I Love Comics: look! see! A tiny seedling board! Will it thrive and grow or be crushed under time’s callous heel? I am mostly posting the link because I want Vic Fluro to post there.[…]

Pop Life Blog: lots of very good stuff here! Derek was it you who works at a certain West-Central London second-hand chain and wrote to FT a while ago? If so I am very very sorry for not replying, no excuses, I am just rubbish with email. Anyway read[…]

Last night for the first time in my life I had one of those going-out-without-trousers dreams, an absolutely standard part of the dream lexicon but one that had not troubled me. I can only put it down to all the discussion on critical authority that […]

Popnose: let’s try that again, shall we… (now with actual new tracks!)[…]