Regular readers of Freaky Trigger will know that we’re sceptical about blaming all kinds of ills on ‘marketing’, because most marketers are rubbish bunglers and the whole thing tends to be based on very shaky statistics and assumpti[…]

Urban Cookie Collective – “The Key: The Secret”
Kat of General Khaki writes:
Verses? Let’s face it, they’re rubbish, aren’t they? The artist blabbers on because they are not concise enough to get the gist across wi[…]

My fantastic book on stage magic, Hiding The Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer, is full of great tales but my favourite** is the story of how Robert-Houdin used SCIENCE to prevent a rebellion in a French colony by adapting one of his magic tricks. He put a […]

Shystie – “Woman’s World”
Alex Macpherson writes:
She was meant to be the female Dizzee, the girl who would feminise grime enough for the charts and the broadsheets alike while still holding down the scene’s realness. In[…]

At the weekend a number of Freaky Trigger writers went to the SCIENCE OF ALIENS exhibition at the Science Museum. Space prevents a full account of the exhibition (summary: fun but pricey), however the final room, describing our attempts to contact th[…]

Draft Definition: moments in mass-produced art characterised by a rapid turnover of ideas and an emphasis on sensation over execution. (The triumph of the gimmick and the novelty).
Thrill-power it seems to me arises in circumstances where creative in[…]

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Alix Campbell writes:
When I was younger I was very keen to read about the supernatural world, even when it scared the living dung out of me. I was particularly worried about things that had the most disturbing pictures in the bumper Usborne Book of […]

In his excellent book about stage magic, Hiding The Elephant, Jim Steinmeyer touches on an important question – to what extent should magicians pretend that they actually have magical powers? Very few magicians are straightforward in their arti[…]

Depeche Mode – “Just Can’t Get Enough”
Depeche Mode are a curious lot in that they’ve made a lot of entertaining singles in which you can plainly see the seeds of their future complete awfulness: for much of the band&#82[…]