Pop World Cup Podcast – FreakyTrigger

Well you all know what happened. Now Roger Bozack and Peter Baran set up camp in the eerily empty Media Center in Johannesburg, abandoned coffee cups littering the floor, and try to make some sense of it all. Ultimately that means playing a bunch of songs from Nigeria, including bonus tracks from Matt DC’s championship […]

Tom Ewing joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in the broadcast booth for the simulcast of the championship match between Germany and Nigeria and gets raked over the coals about this year’s voting irregularities. Well, not so much raked as politely questioned. Did I say irregularities? I meant thoroughly vetted processes that ensure equitable results […]

Roger Bozack returns from his mysterious illness and joins Peter Baran in the broadcast booth as the crucible of this Pop World Cup gets amplified to the breaking point – tossed on the horns of a swelling tide and cast into a literal pressure cooker of competitive pop music. Protean upstarts Honduras face Germany and […]

With Roger Bozack pulling a sickie, it falls to Eli Sessions to join Peter Baran in the booth for all the quarterfinal results. In the sporting tradition for which the Weekend Update has become justly celebrated, we focus on the sides who lost last week and reminisce over their best moments. Eli’s prediction of a […]

Roger Bozack gets Peter Baran down the line from Capetown to take in all the action from the Pop World Cup 2010 Quarterfinals. In an all-African tie Nigeria battles Ghana for the host continent crown, though the Cameroonians appear to be staking a claim for Kilimanjaro regardless when they face Spain (take that, imperialist French […]

Sixteen nations – but only eight can advance. It’s a cruel game. No matter the quality of play, in the Pop World Cup there must be winners and there must be losers. Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via ISDN linkup to take a look at the teams that didn’t have quite enough to push through […]

Two Pop World Cup managers in the studio this week, but hope is alive for only one of them. Honduras manager Steve Hewitt sits in with Roger Bozack and a bereft Peter Baran as Hewitt’s Honduran squad faces Portugal, Paraguay meet the Netherlands, and Cameroon take on New Zealand. You’re left with a bit of […]

We’re back to live action this week as senior pop analyst and USA manager Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack for the kickoff of the Round of 16. With every match a decider, the managers are pulling out all the stops, breaking out the big guns, i.e. playing really good songs. This week our hosts take […]

With the winning teams resting and limbering up for the trials ahead, Roger Bozack takes time out from the putting green to share some of his favourite efforts from those nations who found themselves left out in the cold when all the votes were counted. Some truly admirable and inventive play here and in most […]

Sixteen songs in thirty minutes! It’s like lunch in a pill. Roger Bozack and Peter Baran race through this week’s jam-packed schedule to bring you foreshortened highlights of some matches and extended musing on others. This week the Federacion de Football de Pop Eff Ayyy (I think I’ve got that right) has sent its administrative […]

Martin Skidmore, manager of the Algerian team, joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack for the most action-packed week yet. The final round of the group stage is bearing down on us – who will go through and who will go home? We hear France vs South Africa; highlights from Mexico vs Uruguay, Nigeria vs South […]

A brace of forward play and rasping cross-field action awaits as Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via satellite for Brazil vs Cote D’Ivoire, Portugal vs Korea DPR, Honduras vs Spain, and Chile vs Switzerland, as well as a guest appearance from 1986 Pop World Cup finalists, Italy, with Raggio di Luna and “Comanchero”. As broadcast […]

Finally! The Pop World Cup on Resonance 104.4 FM in London catches up with the action on Freaky Trigger – ALL the matches on the show (at time of posting) are live and votable. Peter Baran and Roger Bozack bring you extended highlights of the Netherlands vs Japan, Cameroon vs Denmark, Italy vs New Zealand, […]

A huge, ever-growing, pulsating radio show that’s now broadcast on Saturdays at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 in London, the Pop World Cup returns in podcast form this week with a two-fer (we’re catching up with the present). This time Peter Baran and Roger Bozack hear efforts from Germany, Australia, Ghana, England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia […]

Fans of the Radio Roundup, do not despair – we haven’t gone away entirely, we’re just moving to Resonance FM 104.4 on Saturdays at 4pm, where we’ll be covering the matches currently in progress instead of giving you results on songs you already heard and voted on like a week ago. If you’re in London […]

Special DPRK adjutant liaison Mark Sinker again joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in PWC2010’s luxurious control suite, this time for some surprising results from the Group H matches between Switzerland and Spain and Chile and Honduras. Juniper Moon, Touch El Arab, Banda Blanca and Kudai all take the pitch. The closing song is “Ella […]

First-round Group G results here as Roger Bozack returns to the booth with Peter Baran and special deputy ambassador Mark Sinker to discuss all the high and lowlights. Despite a temporary hostage situation order is restored at halftime of DPRK vs Brasil and we also take in an eerie match between Portugal and Ivory Coast. […]

Our Group F round-up sees Roger Bozack still Missing In Action (or Mr Inaction as his wife calls him) so iPete Baran and Steve Mannion continue their coverage in South Africa. The metal hell of Italy vs Paraguay, the sweetness of New Zealand vs Slovakia. Pete is joined in the studio by New Zealand manager […]

Our Group E round-up sees Roger Bozack off to cover the Pop Winter olympics so it falls to analyst Pete Baran to helm the coverage in South Africa. The first all Europe tie, Denmark vs Netherlands, followed by the very intriguing Camaroon vs Japan. Pete is joined in the studio by New Zealand manager Steve […]

Group D sees our first taste of scandal as Peter Baran questions the ancestral authenticity of the German entry, Heinz, whose fuzzy guitar rock paces Australia’s Sneaky Sound System step for step. And drugs – they aren’t unknown on the Serbian electro circuit but it’s not clear if their influence will be effective for J.K., […]

The Group of Death! Or is it? After an inconclusive start to the Group B battle, Peter Baran (doing double duty as manager of Team USA) and Roger Bozack are joined in the booth by the manager of the Slovenian side, Kat Stevens, as we take in all the action and results from the Group […]

Peter Baran and Roger Bozack re-ensconce themselves in the booth with all the action and results from Group B’s first round of matches – Argentina v Nigeria and Greece v South Korea. We hear from Giorgios Mais, 4Minute, Entre Rios, and D’Banj. Our outro tune is the beginning of “Julia” by The Very Best. Produced […]

Oh Lordy! It’s Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in the studio with a complete half-hour recap – including songs – of the tournament results so far. Which at this point means Group A. Los Shakers, Pitch Black Afro, Café Tacuba, and Débruit all make an appearance and we take a look back at the 2008 […]