Revenge of Riff Raff

Preview: KT Tunstall, Japan 2011

March 28, 2011 Add Comment

If you want to see a great gig, check out someone like KT Tunstall, whose career is essentially built on her ability to cut it live ra...

Tapescript Interview: Mikael Akerfeldt, Opeth

March 23, 2011 Add Comment

In late 2009, I conducted a telephone interview with Mikael Akerfeldt, the leader of Opeth. He was in Italy and I was in Saitama. The...

Album Review: Mr. Big, "Bump Ahead"

March 20, 2011 Add Comment

After the success of To Be With You it would be easy for Mr. Big to follow a formula. With Bump Ahead any comparisons must rest on the pre...

Revenge Recommends: "Careful With That Axe Eugene" by Pink Floyd

March 18, 2011 Add Comment

This performance is from Pink Floyd's concert at Earl's Court, London, on 18th May, 1973, in front of a sell-out audience of 1...

Video Review: Van Halen, "Right Here, Right Now"

March 15, 2011 Add Comment

If you've bought the audio of Right Here, Right Now don't expect what you're getting here to be the same. You won't fin...

Interview: Marilyn Manson

March 11, 2011 Add Comment

COLUMBINE HARVESTER Love him or loathe him, you just can't ignore him. That old cliche certainly rings true with Marilyn Manson. Rap mi...

Lost in Translation: Edwyn Collins, Japan, 2011

March 10, 2011 Add Comment

In the history of the neo this guy is! Great stalwart of the Glasgow music scene, Edwin Collins Billboard drive in big miracle comeback! Wo...

Live Review: Manic Street Preachers, Club Citta, Kawasaki, May, 1992

March 09, 2011 Add Comment

Manic Street Preachers' angry tunes turn up Japanese fans To some, the Manic Street Preachers are the new Sex Pistols, the new G...

Prattle and Bum

March 05, 2011 Add Comment

Bono makes a bold gesture Bono: One Fraud, One Lie I've been a U2 fan since the 1980s. But one thing that has continually b...

Revenge Recommends: "Requiem of Confusion" by Shinki Chen

March 02, 2011 Add Comment

Born in Yokohama in 1949, Shinki Chen was called "The Japanese Hendrix." However, ethnically he wasn't Japanese at all. ...

Live Review: Metallica, Marquee, 11th May 1990

March 02, 2011 Add Comment

AWESOME A dream come true for any serious minded metal fan, yet tonight's gig was kept such a secret that punters remained mil...

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!