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THE SQUARE TABLE – What Is The Square Table?
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It’s a rotating panel of Interweb pop pundits – they get sent an MP3 by me (that is, Tom) about once every three days and they comment on each one, giving it a mark out of ten. The collated comments and overall mark then appear on NYLPM.
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I Am Curious Orange
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 The EasyCinema Experience
In the exploded cross section of a US business district that is Milton Keynes, it stands out. Merely by virtue of painting its utilitarian structure a thoroughly unsuitable colour. Everything else in the new town is utilit[…]

I Hate(d) Music
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This is a highly personal story. I’m writing it because I wanted to write something. Because it gives me a way to give myself a purpose outside from merely working again. Because it makes me understand myself better. Because I love music, and proba[…]

Kill Me Again… And Again… And Again
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The Curse of Invulnerability, by Pete ‘Unbreakable’ Baran
It is the end of the film. Action and adventure have been laid before us as our hero has battled insurmountable odds to finally face the arch villain. Sneaking up on him our hero […]

Irony and its Malcontents
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“ROCK AND ROLL is the spearhead of our attack because it is so effective and so much fun.”
– John Sinclair, revolutionary and manager of The MC5, November 1968 from the first ‘White Panther Statement’.
No matter how or what you choose t[…]

Dom Reardon Interview
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‘FIST ME’ SHOCKER OF THE KID-MAG BLOOD FIEND
EXCLUSIVE Freaky Trigger reveals FILTHY THORTS of the SICKO who’s got YOUR kids TERRIFIED to go on the Tube BECAUSE OF THE INSECT ZOMBIE FREAKS. By Al Ewing.
At gore-fest ‘comic&#82[…]

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The Ninth Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group
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Introduction
Welcome to the Ninth Freaky Trigger pop music Focus Group.
What’s all this then? We took twenty recent hit singles (released between July and September in the UK) and got a focus group to rate them each out of ten and comment on th[…]

Go Ape Crazy! – 24 Notes On Apes
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The ape is our era’s creature, we know this now – from Freud who led our animal selves into metaphor and Darwin who led our metaphorical selves into the animal. This history I have written is a re-orienting of the origin ape of Freud (who[…]

A LOCAL CLUB FOR LOCAL PEOPLE? – A Manifesto For Non Rockist Football
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Are you a real fan? The ultimate question to anyone at a football match or who defines themselves as a football fan. It’s a question that’s never answered in the negative and is usually rhetorical. Real fans never get asked it, and if yo[…]

IT’S SCIENCE!
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Introducing Proven By Science, by Geeta Dayal
I usually cringe when I see a science story in a newspaper, magazine, or worst of all, TV. ‘CANCER TREATMENT FOUND’, they trumpet. ‘HOW VITAMINS CAN MAKE YOU SMARTER’. Often, the[…]

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