Live Review: Terrorvision, Don Valley Stadium, 6th June, 1993

Formaldehyde is one of the better debut albums for by a British rock band in recent years, so in the baking hot Don Valley Stadium, playing to their own Yorkshire folk, I was keen to see how they'd cope.

Having a reasonable sound for an opening act helped, although it didn't help having to play to a docile crowd, just beginning to stream in. But their sharp blend of rock, power pop, and snappy punk, best epitomised by songs like "American TV" and "Problem Solved," sparked off a few ripples of approval.

the fuse is yet to be lit, but this slot might well take off pretty soon.

Don Valley Stadium Bill

Def Leppard
Ugly Kid Joe
Thunder
TERRORVISION

Words: Mark Liddell
Picture: Paul Smith

Riff Raff
August 1993

Revenge...?

RIFF RAFF was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, it 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-Daniels-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 nerdy and woke 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... BUT it is also a place for new talent to rise and shine. So, don't be shy! In the words of the immortal Fly, send in your "news, blues, and reviews" - and even interviews if you've got the balls to buttonhole your heroes!