Charlemagne Palestine: this is the last time I’ll be using NYLPM to announce a new article, so make sure you sign up to the list below (or check FT twenty times a day, I won’t stop you).[…]

Charlemagne Palestine – Four Manifestations on Six Elements 

1.Charlemagne Palestine approaches a piano like a climber approaches a mountain. He does not play the instrument so much as he lets it test him: he starts each performance lik[…]

Review of ‘The W’ from ukhh.com: cheap lavatorial entertainment. Also, the funniest blog in the world.[…]

Yet more admin: at least one Freaky Trigger reader is unable to access the freakytrigger.com bits of the site – I’m trying to work out why this is (most people still seem able to) but if this is affecting you, my apologies.
Also, I’[…]

A lock-in! A lock-in! I got a lock-in last night, only my second in two and a half years in London.
I was only recently thinking how much I missed the thrill of seeing the curtains drawn come quarter past eleven and the smiling complicity of all inv[…]

DUEL II! – Duel Of The Dead: learn who won out of Jimbo and Phil (not difficult) – and vote in the second pair-off.[…]

Fantasy Pop League: official launch! You’ve read the NYLPM hype, you’ve groaned at the awful manager names, you’ve wondered (possibly) what it was actually going to be – now your questions are answered and all that remains is […]

The pressures of fame: Carsmile Steve reports on a shocking False Tom who infiltrated the Belle And Sebastian list under my name and proceeded to post the whole of the Indie Kids piece (thoughtfully including copyright!). Now I am a peaceable man, bu[…]

Fantastic stuff via Pete: the entertainment category of Petition Online, where you can create your own petition which will be sent to someone, maybe, possibly, or maybe not, who knows, hell, who cares, it’s another excuse to use the Internet fo[…]

The backlash backlash may be beginning, but the original backlash still has plenty of life in it. This story is time-honoured tabloid evil-pop-star-hysteria, the noteworthy thing being that it’s not a tabloid that’s running it, but the Su[…]