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U2 Retrospective

May 21, 2025 Add Comment

Larry, Edge, Bono, Adam U2 emerged from humble beginnings in the isolated Irish music scene of the mid-1970s to become one of the most vital...

Interview: Mike Peters, The Alarm

August 27, 2023 Add Comment

SOMETHING TO DECLARE You only live twice: once when you're born and once when you look death in the face. Basho's Haiku poem may hav...

Album Review: U2, "No Line on the Horizon"

September 28, 2022 Add Comment

Bono (on the left), shortly after his demotion to lance corporal. 2009's No Line on the Horizon represents a minor return to...

Bono on Desert Island Discs

July 12, 2022 Add Comment

On 1st July 2022 U2 frontman Bono made his appearance on the BBC's long-running Desert Island Discs show to pick his 8 records to be str...

Live Review: U2, The Point, Dublin, Dec.30, 1989

May 31, 2022 Add Comment

A SORT OF HOMECOMING Dublin’s most famous sons are back in Dublin after an intense and exhausting Love Town tour of Australia, Japan and E...

Live Review: U2, Wembley Stadium, 11th August 1993

December 30, 2021 Add Comment

Salman Rushdie, under sentence of death by the Ayatollah's of Iran, stands on the stage in front of 72,000 with Bono's Satani...

Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

February 17, 2020 Add Comment

A 'back to basics' approach is a well known trick of the record trade: a band becomes famous, its music familiar, so it ducks ...

Revenge Recommends: "When Love Comes to Town" by B.B. King and U2

May 15, 2015 Add Comment

Blues legend, B.B.King has passed away at the grand old age of 89. Here he is more or less as I remember him, playing with U2 on their...

Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

October 14, 2014 Add Comment

Radiohead get round their songwriting poverty by developing initially startling soundscapes that simply dont belong on a rock record....

Song by Song: "The Joshua Tree" by U2

September 02, 2014 Add Comment

The Joshua Tree was U2's most important album. It marks the point at which they became a global brand as big as The Beatles or The...

Overview: U2

July 26, 2014 Add Comment

In a recent world exclusive with Hot Press magazine, Bono talked at great length to Joe Jackson about, well, just about everything, i...

The Fly Column: Bono's Unfeasibly Large Ego

May 04, 2013 1 Comment

One of the strangest album covers in rock history was 2009's No Line On The Horizon by U2. The sleeve's picture was actually a ...

Album Review: U2 "Zooropa"

June 23, 2012 Add Comment

According to Bono, Zooropa was a snapshot rather than a rock'n'roll record. Recorded quickly, there is a further shift in the so...

Prattle and Bum

March 05, 2011 Add Comment

Bono makes a bold gesture Bono: One Fraud, One Lie I've been a U2 fan since the 1980s. But one thing that has continually b...

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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!