The Original Soundtrack is Geeta’s fine and recently revived weblog, which has a fair bit of music content and which I’m linking partly because Geeta is going to be editing the sixth (yes sixth!) Freaky Trigger weblog, on science and tech[…]

Edward O was disappointed by this on ILX, making the point that the first singles from the Sugababes’ last two albums (‘Overload’ and ‘Freak Like Me’) were contemporary pop landmarks, and ‘Hole In The Head’ s[…]

FAST FOOD ROCKERS – “Say Cheese (Smile Please)” A quick warning entry to alert you to the year’s least necessary release – Fast Food Rockers follow-up single. Several focus group participants muttered darkly that FFR w[…]

The Flamingo, The Pushme-Pullyu and the Mao – all pieces in variant chess according to this site. I’m fond of house rules and rule variants in theory but they often seem rather forced: most games have players for whom knowing and tweaking[…]

Pet Shop Boys Track By Track: a remarkable labour of love PSB fan-site, essentially one of those Revolution In The Head-style career archaeologies, except online and free-of-charge. The song information is interesting, though my favourite bit of the […]

Reality Blurred: a Reality TV weblog (US shows and networks only though). I’ve been having a little sniff around for TV weblogs, Google hasn’t been very helpful though, loads of right-wing sites rooting around looking for ‘bias&#821[…]

I was having a sniff around for information on Punch Taverns, who are Britain’s second biggest pub owners but who don’t brand their pubs as aggressively as do Wetherspoons. I was doing this because Wetherspoons’ latest results are p[…]

CHEAP FOOD I LOVE No.2 ‘ The Kraft Cheese Slice
Individually wrapped! Cheese slices are a very tactile food, which is the secret of their since-childhood appeal to me. The peeling back of the wrap, the separation of slice from plastic, the smoo[…]

Freaky Trigger’s September issue is now online, with a good number of music-related articles.
– The Pinefox on the ATP festival.
– Alex Thomson on the Thrills and Adorno.
– Jerry The Nipper on Paul Morley’s book.
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Freaky Trigger, September 2003: what is there for Brown Wedge readers? There’s Jerry the Nipper on Paul Morley, Al Ewing interviewing up-and-coming comics artist Dom Reardon, and me writing about – among other things – continuity in[…]