Revenge of Riff Raff

Video Review: Foreigner, "Feels Like the Very First Time"

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While some may consider the prospect of a full-length FOREIGNER video less than enthralling, those who recognise the band as the undisput...

Live Review: The Tragically Hip, The Town and Country Club, 8th November 1991

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Four days after the interviewing the band, they arrived back in London to play the penultimate date of their tour, at the Town and Country C...

Album Review: Duff McKagan's Loaded, "The Taking"

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The world is much better disposed towards Duff McKagan than it is to his old, megalomaniac mucker Axl Rose. The no-holds-barred, rough n&#...

Album Review: "The Second Decade of Rock N' Roll 1981/91," REO Speedwagon

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After 20 years on Rock N' Roll's gruelling highway REO SPEEDWAGON are still going strong, and show no signs of letting up! They crop...

Japanese TV: Interview with Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins

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"We come from some sort of an alternative world and we just don't believe in doing things normally..." Billy Corgan intervi...

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!