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Live Review: Japan Blues and Soul Carnival, Hibiya Open Air Concert Hall, May 30, 2010

August 17, 2023 Add Comment

Missing the first two support acts at this year's Japan Blues and Soul Carnival, I arrive at the Hibiya Open Air Concert Hall in ti...

Interview: Walter Trout

October 14, 2022 Add Comment

Blues guitarist WALTER TROUT has just released his second album entitled Prisoner of a Dream , hot on the heels of his debut Life in the Jun...

Preview: Gary Moore 2010

July 16, 2021 Add Comment

There's something mean and misshapen about Gary Moore, both physically and musically. With a scarred face (apparently the result o...

Live Review: Gary Moore, Hammersmith Odeon, 11th May, 1990

June 04, 2020 Add Comment

BLUES IS THE COLOUR It's very difficult to ascertain why Gary Moore has never gained true commercial recognition as a solo artis...

Preview: KT Tunstall

January 29, 2017 Add Comment

Suddenly, Scottish singer-songwriter is a hit 'Girl with a guitar' – what does that say to most people? Back in the Sixties i...

Album Review: Joe Bonamassa, "Dust Bowl"

May 07, 2014 Add Comment

Following the big rock sound of Black Country Communion, the concept behind Bonamassa's new solo album Dust Bowl was to move thi...

Preview: Japan Blues & Soul Carnival 2010

April 04, 2014 Add Comment

Add a taste of rock and reggae to your blues Since starting in 1986 as Japan Blues Carnival , this annual event has brought the ...

Album Review: Gary Moore, "Still Got The Blues"

March 21, 2013 Add Comment

Fret-flicking guitarist Gary Moore has had his share of the 'blues' in the past. First with Thin Lizzy and more recently with hi...

Album Review, Glenn Hughes, "Blues"

January 22, 2012 Add Comment

Although not the groundbreaking record people might expect, Glenn Hughes Blues does have its moments when "The Voice" takes off ...

Album Review: Ian Gillan, "Naked Thunder"

August 05, 2011 Add Comment

This one’s bound to take a few people by surprise. I know it certainly had me pondering over its pros and cons for more than several ...

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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!