Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Sepultura "Chaos AD"

December 01, 1993 Add Comment Edit

The Boys from Brazil are well established in the thrash camp, but they're not afraid of experimenting. Even on their heaviest tracks...

Album Review: Rush "Counterparts"

December 01, 1993 Add Comment Edit

Counterparts is the strongest Rush album since 1985's Power Windows , 'though it's reminiscent of an earlier effort, 1981&#...

The Fly Column: Adam Clayton and Naomi Campbell

August 01, 1993 Add Comment Edit

"Yo Dudes! It's 'The Fly,' bringing you the coolest news, views, and blues from behind the shades of the sweaty Rock Be...

Album Review: Coroner "Grin"

August 01, 1993 Add Comment Edit

Very heavy. Very hard, precise rhythms. Very gut-wrenching vocals, as if singer-bassist Ron Boyce is spewing out Satan. The lyrics, if y...

Interview: Jimmy Barnes

July 01, 1993 Add Comment Edit

In the land of Oz, Jimmy Barnes is a national institution. The gutsy, Scots-born rock'n'roll singer, who made his name back ...

Interview: Mark Plunkett, Little Angels

June 01, 1993 1 Comment Edit

ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD Scarborough's Little Angels have had to grow up in public almost as fast as the unsurpassable Be...

Photo: The Kill Thrill Kult

January 01, 1993 Add Comment Edit

The Kill Thrill Kult meet Riff Raff columnist the Fly (3rd from left) sometime in 1993. Photo: Record company flunky

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!