Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Def Leppard, Don Valley Stadium, 6th June, 1993

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I've always felt that Leppard use their lighting effects to excellently enhance their material, but, with the sun refusing to set u...

Album Review: The Black Crowes, "Shake Your Money Maker"

February 26, 2011 Add Comment Edit

America's answer to the Q'boys and the Dogs, I was excited to get this one and crank it up. Umm, they cook with the same ingredien...

Revenge Recommends: "Close Your Eyes" by Comsat Angels

February 26, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Hailing from Sheffield, England, the Comsat Angels took their name from a story by the dystopian novelist J.G.Ballard. Part of the post...

Live Review: Thunder, Don Valley Stadium, 6th June, 1993

February 23, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Luke Morley If you like, Thunder are a throw back, a classic-sounding White British rock band steeped in the timeworn tradition of Bl...

Live Review: Slide, Camden Palace, 30th January, 1990

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Slide It In Camden Palace on a Tuesday night isn't exactly the best place for a young, aspiring, straight-down-the-line rock band l...

Interview: Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden

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ALL THIS AND BRAINS TOO! Swashbuckling swanker Bruce Dickinson is something of a workaholic to say the least! Having taken a much needed b...

Album: Anna Calvi, "Anna Calvi"

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With her torch-singer-meets-gypsy-flamenco-guitarist persona and her keening, quavering, retro songs of passion, Anna Calvi is like somethi...

Album Review: The Infectious Grooves, "The Plague That Makes Your Body Move...It's The Infectious Grooves"

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What do Mike Muir and Robert Trujillo of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, Stephen Perkins of JANE'S ADDICTION and OZZY OSBOURNE all have in common?...

Art: Lemmy

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An affectionate caricature of "rock n' roll" god Lemmy by Nina Kouprianova. Note the skull serving the role of heavy metal...

Interview: Brian Borcherdt, Holy Fuck

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The techno-shy Canadians breathe new life into electronica's grooves Brian Borcherdt has no regrets about choosing the moniker ...

Live Review: Shy, The Astoria, 27th November, 1989

February 10, 2011 Add Comment Edit

BON (SHY) Tonight a half-full auditorium awaited the return of Shy, who've spent the last couple of months or so in the States...

Photo: Rob Halford

February 09, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Rob Halford biting a copy of "Riff Raff Metal Magazine" in Tokyo during the Crucible Tour, 2002. Photo: Colin Liddell

Photo: Ozzy Osbourne

February 09, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Ozzy Osbourne on stage at the Loud Park heavy metal festival at Saitama Super Arena, Japan, 17th October, 2010. Photo: Colin Liddell

Album Review: Therapy? "Infernal Love"

February 09, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The energetic Ulster trio return with a more mature and complex sonic rock tapestry as they explore further their obsession with the more u...

Live Review: No Sweat, Islington Powerhaus, 1990

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Picture: Paul Smith SWEAT IT OUT The Powerhaus is just the sort of place where you can see a band like No Sweat really sweat, but it'...

Live Review: Hothouse Flowers, Town & Country, 6th or 7th June, 1990

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Summertime Blues Only a few years ago Hothouse Flowers were busking in the streets of Dublin. Today they still play with the carefree aba...

Book Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers

February 04, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Complete Story by Spike Harvey A book about the story of the Chilis that falls well short of its title's ...

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!