Live Video: Trippple Nippples at a disused hospital in Tokyo

On the night of the 31st of October (Halloween), 2011, Japanese electro-punk group Trippple Nippples played a gig at an "art event" held in a disused hospital in Shinjuku. I went there to interview the avant-garde art group ChimPom for CNN. The building's electricity had been cut off and the building was immersed in general darkness but power was available from mobile generators. Trippple Nippples's performance was held in a dark, crowded basement, so, all in all, hardly ideal filming conditions, but I think this short excerpt manages to catch some of their weirdness and energy.

C.B.Liddell

The Revenge of Riff Raff

22nd September, 2013

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!