Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Mark Knight, Bang Tango

August 26, 2011 Add Comment

Dancin’ to a Different Tune With their first two releases, Live Injection , on the independent World of Hurt Records and Psycho Café , the...

Live Review: Whitesnake, Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey, 2nd February, 1990

August 19, 2011 Add Comment

POWERFUL PUSSIES! Meadowlands Arena is a well known East Coast venue and judging by the crowd’s reaction before Whitesnake hit the stage t...

Interview: Patt Fontaine, XYZ

August 05, 2011 Add Comment

HUNGER STRIKE! Unless you're one of those people who picks up on every American rock album, it's likely you may have missed...

Album Review: Ian Gillan, "Naked Thunder"

August 05, 2011 Add Comment

This one’s bound to take a few people by surprise. I know it certainly had me pondering over its pros and cons for more than several ...

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!