Revenge of Riff Raff

Photo: James Dean Bradfield, The Manic Street Preachers

November 28, 2010 Add Comment Edit

James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Prechers on stage at Studio Coast in Tokyo on 26th November, 2010. Photo: Colin Liddell

Photo: Simon Neil, Biffy Clyro

November 18, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil in action at Daikanyama Unit, Tokyo, on March 1st, 2010. Photo: Colin Liddell

Live: Loud Park 2010 Day One

November 14, 2010 Add Comment Edit

DAY ONE Kicking off at 11am and closing around 10pm on two consecutive days, Loud Park 2010 offered up a grand total of about 22 hours o...

Interview: Jean Michel Jarre

October 23, 2010 1 Comment Edit

SWATCH OUT! JEAN MICHAEL JARRE OVER EUROPE At a press conference announcing his first ever concert tour, Jean Michael Jarre, the French syn...

The Fly Column: Axl X Film Review

October 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

The new film by 'Turn-around-bitch-I-wanna-park-my-bike' Lee. Described as "The Angriest Man in America," Axl, called...

The Fly Column: The Dead Pool

October 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Every month in The Fly column we hope to run a dead pool, a list of those rock n' roll celebrities who are most likely to pop their pro...

Photo: Loud Park 2010, Day One

October 17, 2010 Add Comment Edit

An "audio photo" of the final three acts at day one of Loud Park 2010. This reveals that Korn was slightly more noisy than Stone ...

Photo: Kiss

October 17, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Kiss (and the back of someone's head) at a London press conference in 1996. Photo Mark Liddell

Preview: Coldplay, Japan, 2006

September 25, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Coldplay keeps focus on fair trade image What is it with rock stars trying to save the World? Bono has his 'End World Poverty&...

The Fly Column: Nevermind the Boll**ks

June 20, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Scene: Courtney Love turns up on Axl Rose's doorstep in LA. She rings the doorbell, which is answered by Duff. Courtney : Hi Duff. Is...

Photo: AC/DC setlist, 12th March, 2010

March 31, 2010 Add Comment Edit

The set list handed out to journalists at AC/DC's gigs at the Saitama Super Arena in March 2010. My notes on their performance, written...

Photo: Biffy Clyro setlist, 1st March, 2010

March 07, 2010 Add Comment Edit

The songs performed by Biffy Clyro at Daikanyama Unit, Tokyo, on 1st March, 2010. This was the set list used on stage by the band. Photo:...

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!