Revenge of Riff Raff

EDWIN'S "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER" TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2021

January 28, 2022 2 Comments

January's almost over but it's not too late to take a long, lingering, riff-laden look back at 2021. Here, then, better late than ne...

Live Review: Faith No More, Sheffield Octagon, 27th January, 1990

January 27, 2022 3 Comments

What can you say about a band whose guitarist falls over during the first song? Drunk? Crazy? Maybe. But that's exactly what he did...

Riff Raff IV

January 27, 2022 Add Comment

The fourth issue of Riff Raff hit the news stands in April 1990 with some guy with a guitar on the cover, selling for the princely sum o...

INTERVIEW: PAUL 'EVO' EVANS, WARFARE

January 26, 2022 Add Comment

I had the joy of talking to Paul “Evo” Evans, drummer and singer for underground NWOBHM metal favorites WARFARE. And, while I think the inte...

Revenge...?

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!