Revenge of Riff Raff

Photo: Stuart Adamson, Big Country

April 29, 2011 Add Comment

Stuart Adamson in action on the "Buffalo Skinners" tour. This photograph was probably taken at their gig on the 18th of Mar...

Retrospective: Journey

April 29, 2011 Add Comment

Neal Schon (third from left) "A singer in a smoky room, a smell of wine and cheap perfume..." The Journey story begins in 1973 whe...

Revenge Recommends: "Red Army Blues" by the Waterboys

April 17, 2011 Add Comment

This is a live version of the Waterboys epic, Red Army Blues , recorded in Germany in 1984 (although this broadcast seems to have ...

Album Review: Kiss, "Alive III"

April 07, 2011 Add Comment

Kiss set standards. Alive III catches them at another peak in their careers in the wake of the hard-assed, leather embossed quality of Rev...

Interview: Marky Edelmann, Coroner

April 05, 2011 Add Comment

Coroner are a band whose music defies categorization. Grin maintains this legacy of avant-garde excellence. "The problem is th...

Interview: Duff McKagan, Guns N' Roses

April 03, 2011 Add Comment

EMOTIONAL RESCUE Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, once described as this generation's Sid Vicious, is in Deutschland, the spir...

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!