The Sixth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group – here’s the ballot! Open to all comers (almost) – closing date for responses 9th June.[…]

HOLDING ON FOR TOMORROW
If you want to point the finger of blame at someone, Ronan Keating’s as good a target as any. To be crude about it, pop successes in the 90s have appealed to some combo of the four Gs – girls, gays, grannies and ge[…]

What I’ve been doing today: downloading tracks for the sixth Freaky Trigger Focus Group. A slimmed-down affair this time, with only 29 songs, but still the usual struggles to find half the tracks – and then to find the correct mixes of ha[…]

Queen classic named all-time favourite single – yeah yeah whatever, but look what’s at No.8! What curious persistence![…]

KATE BUSH — ‘This Woman’s Work’
What Isabel likes about Bush is her range — ‘lots of variety; most of your CDs get boring after a few tracks’ — and I kind of agree, though one Kate Bush song is more lik[…]

The honour of a nation is saved! – by, erm, Dirty Vegas.[…]

LATA MANGESHKAR – “Zamana Yeh Samhja Ke Hum Pi Ke Aaye”
Now as you may have noticed questions of authenticity and the circumstances surrounding the making of records don’t really bug me much. Head for ILM and nose around if yo[…]

More from the FT archives – and we’re only on the letter ‘D’. (A couple of pieces seem to be unformattable and I’ll try and find some other way of uploading them, too). Rescued from limbo today we have:
– Layo and […]

Tom’s Top Ten! – now we’ve got a comments function this might actually serve some vague non-ornamental purpose.
SUGABABES – “Freak Like Me”
HOLLY VALANCE – “Kiss Kiss”
NO DOUBT – “Hell[…]

Yeah man rave on feel the vibe!: Ronan has a weblog! It’s going to be ace![…]