Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Metallica, Yoyogi Pool, Tokyo, 13th May, 1989

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Metallica: ’80s punk metal the primeval way Maybe the Ayatollah was right; perhaps the creators of artistic creations that are b...

Live Review: The Cult, Milton Keynes Bowl, 29th May, 1993

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Ian Astbury (Photo: Paul Smith) Is it just bad luck that the last two times I've seen The Cult outdoors it's rained. Is someo...

Photo: Ozzy Osbourne

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Ozzy Osbourne from the August 1993 issue of Riff Raff. The date and the venue is unknown. Photo: Paul Smith

Album Review: Manic Street Preachers, "Gold Against The Soul"

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A drunk invited himself over to my table recently slurring, "Manic Street Poachers , hic, bloody good ain't they!"

Photo: Little Angels

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Photo of Little Angels guitarist Bruce John Dickinson and "Big" Dave Kemp on stage from the July 1993 issue of Riff Raff. Ph...

Album Review: New Model Army, "The Love of Hopeless Causes"

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NMA defy categorization with relish. Their music fuses elements of rock with folk, whilst nodding frequently at their defiant indie roots...

Interview: Steven Tyler & Joe Perry, Aerosmith

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BASIC INSTINCT The Aerosmith saga began in the early 1970s in Boston, where the band put its twisted spin on the blues, mixing heavy...

Photo: Ricky Warwick, The Almighty

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Album Review: Annihilator, "Set The World On Fire"

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Annihilator were never a band that appealed to my well-grounded melodic ears, up until now that is. Set The World On Fire is fresh and in...

Interview: Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree

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The main dichotomy in popular music has always been between simplification and elaboration. In the 1950s, the popularity of rock repres...

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!