Revenge of Riff Raff

Photos: Simple Minds, Cannock Chase, 2011

August 14, 2025 Add Comment

Simple Minds had something to prove in 2011. They weren't just 80s has-beens who recorded the oh-so-ironic "Don't You Forget ...

Interview: Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes

August 06, 2025 Add Comment

THE BLACK CROWES, those soulful, uncompromising rootsy rockers, recently paid a flying visit to our capital city on the back of a highly su...

Interview: Esie

August 05, 2025 Add Comment

THE FORMER MODEL IS EQUAL PARTS PIXIE AND OPERATIC HOWLER The career of a fashion model-turned-singer usually lasts about one album—just lon...

Interview: Kohhei Matsuda, Bo Ningen

August 02, 2025 Add Comment

BO NINGEN got together in London in the dark old days of Tony Blair and have been cooking up an avant-garde noise rock storm ever since. Rev...

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RIFF RAFF was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, it 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-Daniels-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 nerdy and woke 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... BUT it is also a place for new talent to rise and shine. So, don't be shy! In the words of the immortal Fly, send in your "news, blues, and reviews" - and even interviews if you've got the balls to buttonhole your heroes!

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Photos: Simple Minds, Cannock Chase, 2011

Interview: Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes

Interview: Esie

Interview: Kohhei Matsuda, Bo Ningen

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