Revenge of Riff Raff

Tokyo Gig Picks (April)

April 03, 2025 Add Comment

Gig Night In my view, Tokyo has slipped a lot as a World music city, with many of the big acts and new acts being a lot less willing to come...

Video Review: Extreme, "PhotoGraffitti"

March 07, 2025 Add Comment

EXTREME are very much the buzz band off the moment, and the release of Photograffitti is known as striking while the iron's hot. A colle...

Interview: Kieran Webster "The View"

March 07, 2025 Add Comment

You're 19 or 20 and already people expect you to be a role model. This is the situation faced by members of one of the UK's ho...

Interview: Francis Buchholz, Scorpions

March 06, 2025 Add Comment

BLOWING WITH THE WIND OF CHANGE Straight into the UK charts with a smash hit, Germany's finest SCORPIONS have found a new lease of lif...

Interview: John Corabi & John Alderete, The Scream

February 18, 2025 Add Comment

John Corabi SHOUT IT OUT! THE SCREAM, a powerful quartet have been blazing a trail across their homeland as openers on the BULLETBOYS' c...

THE LAZY MAN'S TOP TEN ROCK ALBUMS OF 2024

February 17, 2025 Add Comment

Grok n' roll I got lazy with this article. I didn’t do runner-ups or honorable mentions or disappointments or reissues. I just wrote abo...

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!