Revenge of Riff Raff

Photos: PiL in Tokyo 2013

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Some images taken at PiL's Tokyo gig on 6th April, 2013. This took place at Shibuya AX, a venue that was situated at the edge of...

Album Review: Iron Maiden, "Killers"

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It’s been 40 years since Iron Maiden released their best studio album, Killers . It’s hard to believe there was a time during the band’s len...

Video: Metal Mythos: ANTHEM (アンセム)

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ANTHEM, the Japanese JUDAS PRIEST. Never heard of 'em? Actually, neither have we. Don't have anything better to do on a Saturday eve...

Album Review, Billy Idol, "Cyberpunk"

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Our Bill rides off into the LA sunset and comes a cropper, convalesces with a computer to keep him company and writes an LP influenced by hi...

INTERVIEW: STEVE HOWE, YES

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Clear Air Turbulence Veteran YES guitarist Steve Howe explains the emotional expression behind his playing with veteran Prog Rocker Mike Har...

Revenge Recommends: "No Love Lost" by Warsaw

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Warsaw was Joy Division's earlier monicker, and this potent track, No Love Lost , with a pummeling three-minute instrumental lead-in, ...

That Time a Metal Band With Nazi Armbands Opened for the Dead Kennedys

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If you’ve read Steven Blush’s excellent tome, American Hardcore: A Tribal History , you might remember this quote from Jello Biafra in the D...

Live Review: Guns N' Roses, Milton Keynes Bowl, 29th May, 1993

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To be fair Guns N Roses have stripped off some of the garish excesses of the last 18 months, i.e. there’s no horn sections and sultry, g...

Tastes Just Like...Atomic Rooster

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If you’re a fan of early 70s keyboardists, then somewhere between the proto-metal of JON LORD and KEN HENSLEY and the straight prog rock of ...

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff 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-D-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 trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct 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, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!