Frogspawn for the new millennium
So anyway, there I was yesterday afternoon, having got home from work and aimlessed around for a bit. I then recalled the intriguing pack of semolina pearls that I’d picked up from my favourite supermarket in C[…]

Talking about agents, as we were, here’s a story (at least here’s the story I can work out by reading behind the lines):
1. Newly-relegated cash-strapped club spots promising young player, playing semi-professionally in an even lower lea[…]

Product placement: via Kultureflash comes news of (yes) an art show (yes) with (guess what?) a DIFFERENCE.
Presumably to promote some new motor which they want to position as ‘edgy’ in some way, BMW are sponsoring a group show on the the[…]

FT Top 100 Films
62: GHOSTBUSTERS
Can you review a film by the quality of its spin-offs? Let’s see. I’m not talking about The Real Ghostbusters the significantly less real cartoon incarnation of the who-ya-gonna-call guys. No, I am going […]

Small pleasures
I suppose I should introduce myself as a contributor rather than assuming everyone knows me from ILX:
I like cooking and eating but am no Heston Blumenthal. I am very easily bored and thus a novelty junkie, but always return to old f[…]

We at Freaky Trigger are trying to raise money to help keep a struggling football club alive. The first steps on our leisurely journey towards £500 have already been taken with the launch of the FT Indie Amnesty.
As you are probably aware, many[…]

Mobb Deep ‘Got It Twisted’ (Jive)
It shouldn’t still happen should it? Taking hits from the 80s hasn’t sounded so crazy for a while, even as that trend has reached it’s fulcrum in the post-millennial fallout. This time t[…]

The new Natasha Bedingfield single (“These Words”) greys along in an unconvincing Dido-with-beats fashion until right at the end she coos “I love you, is that OK?” and the sun bursts through the clouds. It’s winsome but […]

Its a Brown Wedge piece about a television show. So it gets a link here too![…]

The FT Appeal: THE GRECIAN EARN*
Regular readers of the Trigger will have noticed a certain bias in favour of Exeter City Football Club on here. Two of our regulars are badge-wearing, card-carrying Grecians, and several more have come along to City g[…]