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
Gift Grub had replaced Radio Ireland. A year later, in March 1999, Paul McLoone, a producer who had moved to Dublin around that time from his native Derry in Northern Ireland joined Today FM and subsequently became a producer for the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. McLoone later came up with the concept of "Gift Grub" and was also responsible for co-creating Gift Grub alongside Irish comedian Mario Rosenstock with "Gift Grub" becoming a huge success and helping Today FM gain a stronghold among the listeners in the Republic of Ireland with the first ever Gift Grub sketch airing on May 8, 1999.