Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: The Wildhearts, "P.h.u.q."

January 31, 2011 Add Comment

The mongrels of Brit rock due to their scatty diversity. Whether it be punk, metal, pop, rock, it's all evident here along with the bar...

Transcript Interview: Mitch Ikeda, Manics photographer

January 28, 2011 Add Comment

In January 2003, I interviewed the Japanese photographer Mitch Ikeda, famous for taking pictures of the Manic Street Preachers, as wel...

Preview: Hope n' Glory

January 28, 2011 Add Comment

HOPE N' GLORY are a quartet from Madingley. The boys in the band are Richie Van Jupp (on lead vocals/ lead guitar), Marty Dickson (bass...

Album Review: Bush, "Sixteen Stone"

January 24, 2011 Add Comment

Brit band with big, grungy American sound in the mould of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. Derivative. But a couple of songs, particular...

The Fly Column (in German): Leichen-Pool

January 23, 2011 Add Comment

Jeden Monat bieten wir in der Kolumne von "The Fly" eine Wette an. Es geht um eine Auflistung der Zwangsaussteiger, auf eine Aufz...

The Fly Column: Clash of the Punks

January 20, 2011 Add Comment

Green Day's Billy Jo was over in London recently on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Punk. Billy was also here to seek inspiration for...

Preview: Coldplay (in French)

January 18, 2011 Add Comment

Coldplay se concentre sur le commerce équitable C’est quoi cet engouement des rock stars pour sauver le monde ? Bono est le croisé de...

Album Review: Deicide, "Once Upon the Cross"

January 18, 2011 Add Comment

Deadly dose of Death Metal, complete with caveman vocals, jurassic riffs, and dumb, perverse ramblings about the joys of Satan. The mus...

Album Review: All Off, "From Midnight to Sunshine"

January 17, 2011 1 Comment

The greatest compliment a Japanese rock band can get is that they don't sound remotely Japanese. If that's the standard, then ALL OF...

The Fly Column: Mr Sincerity... Jon Bon Jovi

January 14, 2011 Add Comment

Climbing up a window pane the other day, a sudden thought struck me: "How does Jon Bon Jovi manage to say the same thing to a differen...

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!