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Quote: James Dean Bradfield on "Sons and Fascination"

October 03, 2014 Add Comment

Welsh guitar wizard James Dean Bradfield on one of his favourite albums, Simple Minds' 1981 classic Sons and Fascination : ...

Album Review: Simple Minds, "Big Music"

March 16, 2018 Add Comment

Ever since their fledgling days in late 70's Glasgow, Simple Minds have always had a restless quality at the heart of their music. ...

Album Review, Simple Minds, "Graffiti Soul"

October 04, 2011 Add Comment

This is the sound of the New Wave rock legends emerging from the shadows with a re-energized and sparkling cluster of sophisticated rock...

Photos: Simple Minds, Cannock Chase, 2011

August 14, 2025 Add Comment

Simple Minds had something to prove in 2011. They weren't just 80s has-beens who recorded the oh-so-ironic "Don't You Forget ...

The Ten Greatest Scottish Moments in Rock History

July 17, 2019 8 Comments

As in most things, Scotland has punched well above its weight in the world of rock music, but because rock is an "international la...

Live Review: The Alarm, Brixton Academy, 15th February, 1990

January 09, 2012 1 Comment

United Strength I always find Brixton Academy a rather sad venue, a once beautiful building long past its best in a worse than bad ...

Album Review: James, "Seven"

April 13, 2021 Add Comment

Having resurrected their career with the anthem "Sit Down." Manchester's JAMES are now very much in the Big League, selling as...

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...

Live Review: Gun, Wembley Stadium, July 4th 1990

November 02, 2023 Add Comment

As yet another embarrassing pass at the Mexican wave ripples around Wembley, GUN kick into action. I've only seen Gun in the confines of...

Album Review: Marillion, "Holidays in Eden"

October 30, 2023 Add Comment

Since the departure of original singer FISH and the release of their last LP Season's End in '89, with new voxman Steve Hogarth, MA...

Interview: Eddie Macdonald, The Alarm

February 05, 2026 Add Comment

GOING (BACK) OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY The ALARM were one of the bands from the "Celtic fringe" that surfed the post-punk energy tha...

Interview: Mark Rankin, Gun

June 03, 2017 Add Comment

Gunning for Glory The first time Gun and myself met was in an empty Town and Country Club, as the band were soundchecking prior ...

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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!