Live Review: The Scream, Astoria, 6th December, 1991

The "American Dream" promotions have been dragging bands kicking and screaming to our shores in order to play the Astoria Theatre in London. One of the best acts was THE SCREAM who absolutely blew the roof off the place.

Kicking off with "Outlaw" then laying into tracks like "Catch Me if You Can," and "Man in the Moon," it was all systems go! John Corabi is one charismatic type person, working every inch of the stage and biting into every song like it was his last meal. Guitarist Bruce Bouillet just kept a-going like a man possessed, along with bassist John Alderete and drummer Walt Woodward III.

They will soon be a force to be reckoned with.

Note: this is excerpted from a "Full Blast" column with "collective" authorship.

Peter Grant (probably)

Riff Raff

March 1992

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!