Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Fish, Royal Albert Hall, 9th July, 1990

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What's all this then? FISH the "Tartan Troubadour" amidst the regal splendour of The Royal Albert Hall? Yes, truly a sett...

Album Review: The Kills, "Blood Pressures"

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Best get it out of the way: Jamie Hince, the guitar-toting half of this male-female duo (shades of WHITE STRIPES) is getting hitched...

Album Review: Venus Fly Trapp, "Grotesque"

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As long as humanity continues to reproduce by the M+F=C formula (Male + Female = Children), transvestites, transsexuals, and the other v...

Live Review: Guns N' Roses/ Skid Row, Great Western Forum, Inglewood, 29th July, 1991

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GUNS N' ROSES (and SKID ROW) have rarely sounded better or more inspired. For two-and-a-half hours the band performed 10 songs from the ...

PREVIEW: NEW ENGLAND

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Attitude, that quality so many bands lack. That simple "fuck you" that distinguishes the deserving few from the hordes. NEW ENGLAN...

Album Review: The Storm, "The Storm"

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When this album first appeared in our post box, I had people screaming in my ear about how brilliant it was. So, after removing a ton of g...

Interview: Peter Black, The Hard Ons

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SENSIBLE STIFFYS After completing an intense four-month European Tour, the Sydney Australia three-piece the HARD ONS were in a London studio...

AEROSMITH: THE COLUMBIA YEARS

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Pics: Paul Smith Someone somewhere in the higher echelon of Columbia records is kicking themselves having released AEROSMITH from their cont...

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!