Album Review: Michael Monroe, "Sensory Overdrive"

Hindsight's a wonderful thing, especially if you can remember enough to manifest the best into a 'Sensory Overdrive' of rock n' roll memories. From the heyday of London's St Moritz club and a 100+ other dives in the early 1980s, there was much for HANOI ROCKS to tuck away somewhere at the back of those frazzled minds. Now is the time Mike Monroe has chosen to draw on all that wonderful depravity.

Ginger's influence as co-songwriter, co-singer and guitarist is abundantly evident (the Ginger/ Monroe collusion works like some kind of dangerous chemistry). But let's not forget Sami Yaffa, Steve Conte and Karl Rockfest to push that electrifying rapport to the max, and even Lemmy (who appears right at the end rasping his way through "Debauchery As A Fine Art"). The Renaissance has just begun - stand back and enjoy the Fireworks!

Pippa Lang
Rock iKon
14th March, 2011

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!