Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon

September 27, 2010 5 Comments Edit

Tripping the Light Fantastic "I can't really pick what song I like the best or shit like that. It's not that simple ...

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&...

Album Review: Various "Peace Not War Japan"

September 25, 2010 Add Comment Edit

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE (OR AT LEAST BUY THE CD) Nowadays, we live in a time of constant crises and conflict. As soon as one flashpoint in th...

Live Review: Diamond Head, Milton Keynes Bowl, 5th June, 1993

September 23, 2010 1 Comment Edit

The appearance of Diamond Head was treated with a certain mixture of respect and curiosity by the still slumbering crowd, many of whom, if ...

Photo: Ian Astbury

September 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Ian Astbury at Studio Coast, Tokyo, 14th of May, 2010 - his 48th birthday! Colin Liddell 14th May, 2010

Interview: Gary Helsinger, Green Jelly

September 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

"We suck," say Green Jelly. But nobody's this good at being this bad. Inspired lunacy. No sacred cow is left unruffled, wi...

Interview: Jeff Healey

September 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Blind Man's Bluff? Mark Liddell finds Jeff Healy in outspoken mode as the highly respected guitarist trashes the myth makers . ...

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!