Revenge of Riff Raff

Preview: Evanescence, Japan 2007

June 30, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Difficult journey to a smooth, mature sound That 'difficult second album' is one of the clichés of rock music, and like most cliché...

Album Review: The End "Gusto"

June 25, 2010 3 Comments Edit

THE END are a London-based quintet, who have released their debut album, Gusto through Phil Manzanera's (of ROXY MUSIC fame) label, Mad...

Album Review: Sofie Livebrant, "From Here to Here"

June 25, 2010 Add Comment Edit

The cover art strongly hints at Swedish songbird Sofie Livebrant’s musical talent. Looking like death warmed up (and in dungarees!), she’s o...

Interview: Monty Colvin, Dane Sonnier, Alan Doss & Ben Huggins, Galactic Cowboys

June 20, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Space Invaders An intriguing band are the GALACTIC COWBOYS. They have recently released their self-titled debut album: a potent m...

Preview: End of Year Concerts

June 20, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Music to get you in the festive spirit Music tastes differ from person to person, but less well known is that they also vary over time. The...

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...

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!