Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Jean Michel Jarre

October 23, 2010 1 Comment

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

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

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

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

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

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!