Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Foreigner, "Unusual Heat"

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After a gap of some four years, Mick Jones and the guys have returned to thrill and delight all you AOR junkies. But will it be the same wit...

Album Review: Marillion, "Holidays in Eden"

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Since the departure of original singer FISH and the release of their last LP Season's End in '89, with new voxman Steve Hogarth, MA...

Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"

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The twin peaks of Pink Floyd's career are undoubtedly The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall , but between them there also lies a...

Interview: Sean Harris, "Diamond Head"

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HEAD GAMES... DIAMOND HEAD were one of the better NWOBHM bands to emerge in the early 1980s, but sadly, didn't achieve the giddy heights...

Live Review: The Grip, Town and Country Club, London, 20th November, 1989

October 29, 2023 Add Comment Edit

"Silicon and Wire" opens tonight's set and THE GRUP are instantly at their finest. No warming up necessary for this band. As ...

Album Review: Crash N' Burn, "Fever"

October 28, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Little more than a year ago Anglo-German rockers RIFF captured my interest, playing second fiddle to then label mates DRIVE SHE SAID. They w...

Interview: John McGeoch, Alan Dias, and Mike Joyce, PiL

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Mark Liddell talks That What Is Not to guitarist John McGeoch, bassist Alan Dias, and drummer Mike Joyce about their involvement in PiL and...

Interview: Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes

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STONE THE CROWES "I just got into a band so I could get all the good clothes!" Chris Robinson singer with THE BLACK CROWES is disp...

Album Review: Marillion, "Sounds That Can't Be Made"

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After what seems like an age, Prog rockers MARILLION have returned to the fold brimming with new ideas. From the opening eastern orches...

Album Review: Dirty White Boy, "Bad Reputation"

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I've been a fan of Earl Slick since the No Brakes album gave a reason to hunt out his back catalogue, and I doubt there's an AOR fa...

Photos: The Cult, Studio Coast, Tokyo, 2010

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On the 14th of May, 2010, the Cult played an extremely badly-lit gig at Studio Coast, a cavernous and half-filled venue, built on reclaimed...

Interview: Todd Rigione, Liquid Jesus

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SOLUBLE SOULS Having the word Jesus in your name is a currently trendy idea which numerous bands have adopted like JESUS JONES, THE JESUS AN...

Album Review: Europe, "Bag of Bones"

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Swedish hard rockers EUROPE have gone back to blues basics for their 9th studio album Bag Of Bones with the help of producer Kevin Shir...

Live Review: Hawkwind, Hammersmith Odeon, 8th December, 1989

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There's a strange smell permeating the air in the Hammy Odeon as HAWKWIND are about to take to the stage, and you don't need me to...

Interview: Greg Rolie, The Storm

October 21, 2023 Add Comment Edit

WEATHERING HEIGHTS "Beau Hill, our producer, said to us that he'd been looking for a band of great musicians who also had the songs...

Video Review: Damn Yankees, "Damn Yankeees"

October 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

We join the action here in nutsille USA, and we're greeted with an opening scene of live-on-stage antics from TED "look at me, I...

Interview: Johnny Van Zant & Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd

October 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

BACK TO THE FUTURE As a full moon beams over the bayou, some fireflies circle the bare light bulb shining from Mama's front porc...

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!