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 Gift Grub Gift Grub is a series of short comic pieces broadcast on weekdays on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on the Irish commercial radio station Today FM, having been broadcast since May 8, 1999. "Gift Grub" originally aired on Today FM's predecessor, Radio Ireland as a three-weekly, two minute sketch series called "Starship Compromise", a parody of Star Trek featuring Gerry Adams as a starship captain accompanied by his faithful officer, Martin McGuinness with the two scouring the galaxy, seeking compromise with alien beings. In 1998, Ian Dempsey who had left RTÉ joined the newly renamed Today FM which