Revenge of Riff Raff

Revenge Recommends: "Here Comes The War" by New Model Army

July 26, 2011 Add Comment Edit

From 1993's The Love Of Hopeless Causes , this song is a good example of New Model Army's agit-rock, with earnest humanitari...

Album Review: Terrorvision, "Formaldehyde"

July 26, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Having been released five months ago in limited edition style, Formaldehyde again sees the light, hopefully to a far bigger audience. Try...

Live Review: U2, The Point, Dublin, Dec.30, 1989

July 12, 2011 Add Comment Edit

A SORT OF HOMECOMING Dublin’s most famous sons are back in Dublin after an intense and exhausting Love Town tour of Australia, Japan and E...

Interview: Rick Allen, Def Leppard

July 09, 2011 Add Comment Edit

For Def Leppard, Retro Active seals the lid on 'The Steve Clark era' and eagerly ushers in their next chapter. Joe Mackett waxes l...

Art: Rock Girls by Toman

July 02, 2011 Add Comment Edit

This picture of a Japanese high school girl with nekomimi playing rock bass is by Toman. one of the artists I met at Tokyo Design Fest...

Album Review: Wolfsbane, "Massive Noise Injection"

July 01, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Fuelled by the frustrations of a thousand music biz hassles Wolfsbane deposited all their aggression on the audience of London's Marque...

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!