Live Review: Dogs D'Amour, Florentine Gardens, Los Angeles, 9th May, 1991

Sometimes the audience is here in Los Angeles have a tendency to sit back and relax, instead of getting out there and rocking. The DOGS D'AMOUR, while performing at "Thunderdome Thursday" in the Florentine Gardens, decided to get the audience's attention. The Dogs had recently played to a sell-out crowd at the Roxy Theatre and were eager to perform again.

Unfortunately, the same crowd did not turn up for the gig! The muso-filled, alcohol numbed audience, mixed with a bad sound system, set the band off. While calling the audience a, quote "bunch of Hollywood f****ts," Tyla picked up a beer bottle, smashed it, and proceeded to slice his stomach open. The show ended with Tyla collapsing and Bam hurling his drum kit into the audience. Another night in Hollywood!

Barbara Shaughnessy
Riff Raff
July 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!