Live Review: Rod Stewart, Glastonbury, 29th June 2025

Glasto is one of the worst music festivals on the planet, and is only worth watching remotely, which is what I did. I skipped most of it and...

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Live Review: Aerosmith, Hammersmith Odeon, 14th November, 1989

AERO-DYNAMIC So it's finally happened!  AEROSMITH back playing live gigs in the UK after a 12 year absence! A sold-out Hammy Odeon was j...

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Live Review: Romeo's Daughter, The Marquee, 30th November, 1989

HEAVEN IN THE MARQUEE ROMEO'S DAUGHTER don't have a lot of luck at this venue. A couple of shows have been either cancelled or poorl...

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Riff Raff Page-by-Page: December 1989

The very first issue of  Riff Raff  hit the newsstands in December 1989. Below are h yperlinks to all the content in that ground-brea...

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Album Review: Pendragon, "The World"

The fifth album by PENDRAGON, who remind me a bit of CAMEL and at times BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST and do  conjure up some beautiful sounds,  par...

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Album Review: Magellan, "The Hour of Restoration"

With the likes of FLOYD,  YES,  GENESIS, and ELP shifting thousands from their back catalogs and are likely to  record again,  it seems ther...

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Interview: Stig Pederson, D-A-D

Originally known as DISNEYLAND AFTER DARK,  newly monikered Danish rockers,  D-A-D,  tell Nick "McDougall" Douglas why they're...

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Live Review: The Macc Lads, The Marquee, 30th March 1990

Imagine an audience with the same sophistication as Sid the Sexist, the feminine finesse of the Fat Slags, and the human compassion of the B...

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Preview: The Third Man

THE THIRD MAN are a trio comprised of founder member Gus Isidore on vocals guitar, Mark Crosbie-Smith on drums, and Robbie Romp on bass. Hav...

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Interview, James McNew, Yo La Tengo

James McNew is back to pick up a new album and do some shopping. It's been three years and a change of record labels since I last sat do...

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Interview: Danny Chauncey, 38 Special

North. South, it's all the same to Peter Grant because he can't tell the difference, so we set this "human compass without a no...

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Riff Raff Page-by-Page: June 1993

Hyperlinks to almost all the content in the July 1993 edition of Riff Raff Cover: AEROSMITH/ Price £1:95 Inside cover: Bruce DICKINSON sho...

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Album Review: Enuff Z'Nuff, "Animals With Human Intelligence"

A little time to live with animals is essential. Why? Coz this is an outing that grows with repeated playz. Twelve tracks trip the light fan...

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Album Review: Blind Melon, "Blind Melon"

I really don't believe I can do this album justice. Why? Well, BLIND MELON play a quirky, eclectic menagerie of tunes, and on the listen...

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Preview: AWOL

Three-piece band AWOL are fronted by female vocalist Max Perri, alongside founder member Clive Minzaga on drums and Dave Goodes on guitar. T...

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Interview: Sole Asylum (Billy Kulke, Dave Anderson, John Phillips)

Formed in the summer of last year by Liverpudlian brothers, Billy and Mark Kulke ( bass and guitar respectively), SOLE ASYLUM  are a London-...

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