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25th Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl (#FTABCANYPC25): The Hackney Brutalist Kissy Face
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Tuesday, 30th December 2025 is the 25th (sort of) Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and we have decided to make a rare foray out of Zone 1 to HACKNEY. Twenty Five years too late to actively gentrify it, perhaps we undo some of that dama[…]

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Freaky Trigger is a website dedicated to smart, informal writing about pop culture – music, film, TV, food and drink, books, art, science and anything else we fancy writing about. We’re not particularly cutting edge, but we’re generous, affable and curious.

We started Freaky Trigger in 1999 – it was purely a music site for the first few years, gradually expanding its remit. Until 2005 it included the much-loved music blog NYLPM, whose contents form part of the site’s extensive archives.

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I Got Everything It Takes To Be Your Everlasting Friend: WALTER THE WOBOT
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This is an entry in my year-by-year, story-by-story series about 2000AD, Discourse 2000. Contains spoilers (I guess) for the solo Walter strips and perhaps other things.

Which Thrill?: Walter is a robot domestic servant of Judge Dredd with an inte[…]

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2PAC ft ELTON JOHN – “Ghetto Gospel”
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The pattern for recent hip-hop Number 1s on Popular – Nelly’s pair being the best example – has been the chart-topper as a kind of medal for services rendered, generally coming an album cycle after the artist’s more vital work. Mostly[…]

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