Revenge of Riff Raff

The Sex Pistols' First TV Appearance 1976

November 19, 2022 Add Comment Edit

The Sex Pistols' notorious appearance on the Bill Grundy show in December 1976, amid a tirade of four-letter headlines, will go down in ...

Album Review: Gillan, "Toolbox"

November 19, 2022 Add Comment Edit

"There's more screaming on this record than l've done in thirty years!" - IAN GILLAN, September '91. He's not ...

Live Review: Little Barrie, Daikanyama Unit, Tokyo, 10th December, 2010

November 15, 2022 Add Comment Edit

Daikanyama's Unit turned out to be a strange venue in which to hear Little Barrie, the rock trio from Nottingham, England. Descending ...

Live Review: Dogs D'Amour, Hammersmith Odeon, 30th October, 1989

November 12, 2022 Add Comment Edit

I first saw the Dog D'Amour several years ago at the Embassy club. Tonight it's Hammersmith Odeon. The Dogs haven't changed...

Album Review: The Smithereens, "Blow Up"

November 12, 2022 Add Comment Edit

Odd one this. Heavily laden on Sixties nostalgia. THE SMITHEREENS find themselves somewhere between early BEATLES and West Coast harmony...

Interview: Mark Chadwick & Simon Friend, Levellers

November 12, 2022 Add Comment Edit

Mark Chadwick Though around for a few years, recent months have seen a major enhancement in profile as exposure from a top 50 single has hel...

Preview: Biffy Clyro / Trashcan Sinatras, Japan 2010

November 10, 2022 Add Comment Edit

Biffy Clyro It's not often that you get two bands from the same small corner of Scotland appearing in Japan at the same time, but ...

Interview: Denis D'Amour, Voivod

November 10, 2022 Add Comment Edit

FAR OUT From Quebec, VOIVOD, a band whose songs are inspired by the realms of Science Fiction. They're also a band who've been...

Album Review: Savatage, "Streets, A Rock Opera"

November 09, 2022 Add Comment Edit

Probably the most underrated power metal band on the planet. With the excellence of Hall of the Mountain King and Gutter Ballet going larg...

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!