Album Review: Trixter, "Trixter"

Despite the fact that they are each only 20 years of age TRIXTER boast they've been together for 7 years. They've sold three quarters of a million copies of this their debut in this states. The question is, what makes them so special? On listening to them I can't for the life of me fathom the answer.

It's all very inoffensive stadium rock, y'know what I'm getting at, colour by numbers, tra la la... Nothing, not even the two Stateside hits reach out and grab ya. They're far too happy blending into the background for that. Fine and dandy for driving your truck down route 66 to, but I'll take mine with more bollocks next time chaps!

Grade D +

Joe Mackett

Riff Raff

September 1991

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!