A Mad Man Shuts A Box 9 Feb 2015 Fans of long, chronological blog projects will know that when one actually finishes it's cause for no small celebration. Phil Sandifer's TARDIS Eruditorum reaches its final entry today, an essay…
Omargeddon #28: Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead 16 Jan 2022 There comes an inevitable moment during every long, pointless passion project when a person begins to seriously question why it seemed like such a good idea. I passed this point…
THE VENGABOYS - "We're Going To Ibiza!" 28 Nov 2014 The Vengaboys’ revival of Typically Tropical beats “Barbados” in significant ways just by switching locations. At a stroke the song is no longer two white sessionmen pretending to be a…
TFTACOXS – December 19th: Brie & Cranberry Wars part Deux 20 Dec 2017 Previously on Brie & Cranberry Wars...we saw our intrepid reporter tackling sauce with curious geometrical properties, incisoring through predictably chewy bread and carefully measuring the thickness of sliced cheese leading…
S CLUB 7 - "Never Had A Dream Come True" 6 Jul 2015 “Never Had A Dream Come True” is enjoyably drippy, but does nothing to shake my sense that S Club 7 are the blandest proposition of this pop era. Like their…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2015: #10-#1 22 Jan 2016 "Yojne! - 01 Pot gnilffuhs-zzaj, gnikcilc-regnif lanif eht s'ereh, yawyna! Ekil I mug taht ekil, elyts ni kcab emoc ll'yeht yllufepoh. Selit eht htiw yoj on tub, sniatruc der eht…
TFTACOXS: Dec 14: Boots Festive Triple 15 Dec 2017 Earlier in the year I either had a single hallucinogenic episode brought on by the cramped refrigerated conditions of the Boots 'chiller', OR - and this seems far less likely…
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2016: #20-#11 20 Jan 2017 TASH-BED: Hi everyone! It's us, the singing Bedingfield siblings! Remember us? You must remember us. DAN-BED: Summon Tash and she will appear! TASH-BED: We've been keeping busy for the last…
About the Author
Hi, I'm Sarah. I'm a rotten old drunk who doesn't post enough.
28 Nov 2004
i. shepherd’s/cottage pie ii. cheese flan/pizza iii. scotch egg iv. boiled egg actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a stiff crackdown ordered on heretics and dissidents. Hunting […]
8 Aug 2019
Hello Popular readers! After sixteen years, and suffering from (as you’ll have noticed) a much slower posting rate, I’ve come to a decision. I’m going to crowdfund this project, using Patreon. HERE’S THE LINK. This coincides with me leaving my day job and going solo, which opens up a lot of spare time. But billable […]
13 Feb 2000
England is DIFFERENT (or SPECIAL if you want to be polite) to everywhere else for many reasons, but one is because our music “industry” (it’s not an industry – making baked beans is an industry, and nobody does THAT in their spare time, writes fanzines about it or has them poured over themselves at weddings. […]
15 Dec 2009
One of the things that’s fascinating about the UK Top 40 is that a device designed to be a pure expression of popularity also works as a reflection of so many other things. People buy songs: if enough people buy a song it gets into the charts, or to #1. Simple! But so simple that […]
2 Feb 2001
The Usual Excuses Bowery Electric’s “Freedom Fighter” is bewitching and worrying, and not just because it was made by a band I’d put down as America’s most useless. In fact the beat Bowery Electric use on “Freedom Fighter” sounds as familiar as ever, but that for once works in the song’s favour, in the same […]
11 Oct 2006
The discerning televisual fan will be aware of the vacuum currently residing in the schedules between the 7.30pm end of Hollyoaks First Look and the 9pm commencement of Ghost Whisperer. There are only so many times one can flick between Puff Daddy jiggling next to the Lead Pussycat on TMF and the startlingly abhorrent animated […]
1 Jul 2013
This article by Laurie Penny on the pervasiveness and persuasiveness of the manic pixie dream girl trope is really good. I’m the same age as Laurie Penny, so was plagued by the same cultural stuff as her- I don’t know if it’s just egocentrism for my own timeline but I feel like the 90s marked […]
19 Jan 2002
Everlasting Pop and Dexys Midnight Runners There is pop, and there is popular, and then there’s popular. And there’s also “timeless”. Sometimes when people say that a record is “timeless” – let’s pick on, oh, a U2 album – they mean it will be listened to and loved say twenty years from now. What they […]