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Just something I've been wondering for a while - how well known is ILM / Freaky Trigger? Aside from *that* article and various links, how famous is this board on the internet music 'scene', if indeed there is one? And do we have a collective nemesis (apart from that doompatrol fellow, obviously)?

― DG, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wha t the hell is "Freaky Trigger" ?

― Mike Hanley, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Go here - unfortunately you can only look at NYLPM right now. Freaky Trigger was Tom Ewing's wonderful pop music zine which is on hiatus until mid-June or so (?) due to domain name speculating bastards. ILM was originally only another wing of the vast FT web presence.

― Josh, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If it isn't up by mid-June, I'll strangle the idiot who caused it to go down in the first place and beat all the coding into shape myself. Grr, grr!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

our collective nemesis is that baby with one eyebrow. besides pitchfork, i mean.

― ethan, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thanks scampy

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the music press read it to RIP ME OFF!

(sorry, channeling Mark E Smith there)

I don't know how well it's known. I've been approached by strangers twice saying hey do you do Freaky Trigger/I Love Music. I know that a few journos etc. are aware of it. One thing is that all the separate bits had their own fanbase - there were loads of people who read Tanya and never anything else on the site. We've never done any proper marketing or advertising really but that's something that might change in June. If 'well-known' can be measured in hits then we were getting 10-11,000/week at the time of the hijack and still get about 60% of that.

Getting nice e-mail from ordinary pop fans (and then never replying to it) is generally more important than getting recognition in EW etc. To me at least. Though EW was cool, sigh.

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So we don't have a rival board called 'I'm Actually Quite Keen On Music, You Know' which bitch about us lot all the time then?

― DG, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What the hell is ILM??!!%%

― Ally C, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in a parallel dimension, on 'umm,music...laverlee':

heybaby: i totally agree ;)

makam chasa: quite, how he ulates with Roycean spendour.

fInEpOx: AarGH KuT YO BeECHazz..MUddAFUGGA !

― geordie racer, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cor.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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