The Trumpton Riots EP There, the title of the second song is given as "Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice". In a 2001 appreciation of the band, music writer and novelist Kevin Sampson described the EP as "utterly marvellous". In May 2016, "The Guardian" newspaper reported that Gordon Murray's family were contemplating suing the band Radiohead for infringing the copyright of the idea of Trumptonshire in the video for their single "Burn the Witch". The same report noted that Half Man Half Biscuit's 1980s song "The Trumpton Riots" had "portrayed Trumptonshire as a place of striking firemen, militant socialism, and military coups". The following
The Grub Street Opera problems within the literary community; the title links the play with the "Grub Street Journal", a periodical that satirised inept writers that frequent Grub Street. It also links the play with Fielding's previous attacks on the London theatre and inept writers. In particular, Fielding satirises bad imitations of Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" and those who do not understand what Gay's play was originally about especially in regards to its mockery of the Italian opera tradition. The virtue of the female servants is a point of humour in the play. Traditionally, female servants were depicted in comedic works as those lacking