Photos: PiL in Tokyo 2013

Some images taken at PiL's Tokyo gig on 6th April, 2013. This took place at Shibuya AX, a venue that was situated at the edge of Yoyogi Park, between the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and the studios of NHK. In 2014, the venue was demolished, possibly as part of the preparations for the Tokyo Olympics.

Lu Edmonds goes into a guitar solo.

A quick greeting for those of us in the peanut gallery

Bruce Smith keeping the beat

Johnny channeling the angst of being tied up

in record company legal wrangles for 20 years

After the gig, dutifully hanging out with the press

Photos by Colin Liddell

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!