Bio

Launched in 1999, 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 the writers fancy writing about. They describe themselves as 'not particularly cutting edge, but we’re generous, affable and curious'. When the site started 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. The blog posts are written by Tom Ewing who is the site’s founder and publisher, Pete Baran and Mark Sinker are editors, Alan Trewartha does the back-end stuff (and wrote the Widget Logic plug-in which the site uses), and Steve Mannion (aka Ghost Food) designed it. Freaky Trigger is a team effort – most of the team are based in London, and most of them socialise together on a fairly regular basis. More than 100 people have written for FT in the ten years they've been running, and the site has around 20 contributors. Entries in the Freak Trigger concentrate on categories such as Blog 7, Do You See, I Hate Music, New York London Paris Munich, Popular, Proven By Science, Pumpkin Publog, The Brown Wedge and TMFD (Sport). Recent entries include Oh Bondage Up Yours!, S CLUB 7 – “Don’t Stop Movin’”, DESTINYS CHILD – “Survivor”, EMMA BUNTON – “What Took You So Long?”, HEAR’SAY – “Pure And Simple”, The Canon Crawl, WESTLIFE – “Uptown Girl” and SHAGGY feat. RIKROK – “It Wasn’t Me”. The site explain that in terms of 'advertising and PR: we have no advertising on Freaky Trigger (apart from unavoidable ones via using google for search) so please don’t bother asking us to run any. We also don’t source content from PR agencies or pluggers so don’t offer us any virals or “exclusive” content – but by all means let us know about awesome things you’re doing. Reviews: Most of our reviews are of films, food and drink products, books, etc. rather than music, and we’re not an MP3 blog. So don’t worry about sending us free CDs and music, but if you have other freebies you want to offer us, get in touch. Alcohol and pork products especially welcome. Contributors: We’re not currently actively looking for new contributors so if you’re desperate to write for Freaky Trigger your best bet is to move to London and come to the pub with us a lot! This doesn’t apply if you’ve written for us in the past, or if we’ve invited you to write for us (drunkenly or otherwise!)'. The team can be reached via the email address listed above.