Riff Raff IV

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 of £1.50 (around £3.57 in today's money). It was a fold-0ut poster with 8 "pages" on the other side (cover, back cover, 2 pages of tour dates, and 4 pages of live reviews - 10 reviews in all).

Editorial was by Mark Crampton, Mark Liddell, Simon Robinson, Julie Wilby, and Roger Evans. with pictures by Nigel Hinkes, Mark Termeer. and Dave Clark.

Check out Mark Liddell's live review of GUN at the Astoria, Simon Robinson's review of MICHAEL MONROE at the Town and Country, Roger Evans' review of HUNTER & RONSON at the Hammersmith Odeon, or Julie Wilby's account of FAITH NO MORE at the Sheffield Octagon.

Colin Liddell
Revenge of Riff Raff
27th January, 2022

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!