Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Nazareth, "Big Dogz"

June 27, 2011 Add Comment

OK, the sleeve looks a bit like four Scooby Dooz from Hell, but because Nazareth have taken trouble over the contents, this daft-lookin...

Album Review: Wild Beasts, "Smother"

June 22, 2011 Add Comment

Wild Beasts is one of those bands that draw an embarrassing amount of adulatory adjectives from music critics and is regularly tipped fo...

Photo: Namie Amuro

June 20, 2011 Add Comment

This photo of the Japaense pop idol Namie Amuro was taken at the inaugural MTV Japan Video Music Awards on the 24th of May, 2002. The ...

Album Review: Winger, "Pull"

June 17, 2011 Add Comment

Winger have toughened up. Pull sports a harder, crunchier riffing edge than its predecessor In The Heart Of The Young which spawned th...

Interview: Jason Newsted, Metallica

June 05, 2011 Add Comment

EXIT SANDMEN Jason Newsted tells Joe Mackett about the never-ending tour, the riots, the feuds, support acts, plans for the fut...

Revenge Recommends: "Blindside" by Lime Shark

June 02, 2011 Add Comment

Lime Shark are a three piece rock outfit with a progressive edge, based in South Lincolnshire and consist of ex-Canis Major guitarist and f...

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!