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Live Review: Manic Street Preachers, The Astoria, London, 20th February, 1992

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Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. For ages, MANIC STREET PREACHERS were shaping up to be nothing more than a SIGUE SIGUE ...

Live Review: Marillion, The Astoria, 7th November, 1989

July 24, 2023 Add Comment

Steve Hogarth: smell the gloves. The Kings of London Town There was a time when no-one could have conceived a MARILLION without FISH. Ho...

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

May 28, 2023 Add Comment

The "American Dream" promotions have been dragging bands kicking and screaming to our shores in order to play the Astoria Theatre ...

Live Review: Dare, The Astoria 18th October, 1989

August 07, 2020 Add Comment

Mancunian act Dare are pretty new on the live circuit. Up to date they have headlined numerous club shows following an extremely succe...

Live Review: Kings X, The Astoria, April, 1990

June 26, 2015 Add Comment

THE X FACTOR The inevitable dry ice billows forth from the stage, followed by a suitable doomy intro; Kings X take the stage we...

Live Review: Gun, The Astoria, 12th February, 1990

November 02, 2012 Add Comment

TOP SHOTS Gun are on the brink of a big breakthrough that others like The Quireboys and Texas have managed to achieve. And judging...

Live Review: The Grip, The Astoria, 1990

May 25, 2012 Add Comment

HOLD TIGHT Undaunted by the lack of followers William leads the Grip charge across the Astoria stage. Coming on like you're pl...

Live Review: Shy, The Astoria, 27th November, 1989

February 10, 2011 Add Comment

BON (SHY) Tonight a half-full auditorium awaited the return of Shy, who've spent the last couple of months or so in the States...

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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!