Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review, Lou Reed & Metallica, "Lulu"

October 31, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Not bad just different, so the mantra goes, but basically Lulu sounds like Metallica wanting to emulate The Who, Pink Floyd, and other ...

Revenge Recommends: "Being A Dickhead's Cool" by The Grand Spectacular

October 28, 2011 Add Comment Edit

This witty song is by the obscure outfit, The Grand Spectacular. Not much is known about them except that they possibly come from Cambri...

Interview: Alice Cooper

October 25, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Social Stoopidity You'd think dragging Alice Cooper out of rehearsals in order to obtain an interview would be a dodgy move, ...

Video Review: AC/DC, "Clipped"

October 23, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Ah...and now for a little pre-Donington taster. It's the loudest rock n' roll band on the planet (Heavy Metal!? My dog's ass...

Interview: Iggy Pop

October 21, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Iggy's inner artist The heroin addiction, the public self-flagellation and penis-baring, the rumors of bisexuality...these are...

Revenge Recommends: "Shipping Steel" by Cold Chisel

October 19, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Shipping Steel is a classic track by Australian hard rockers Cold Chisel from their 1979 album Breakfast at Sweethearts . The song is...

Photo: Billy Duffy, The Cult

October 15, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Guitar hero and David Beckham lookalike Billy Duffy of the Cult in action at Studio Coast, Tokyo, 14th of May, 2010. Colin Liddell Re...

Live Review: Bruce Dickinson, The Hummingbird, Birmingham, June 26th, 1990

October 10, 2011 Add Comment Edit

This gig was almost a 'maiden over,' to use a cricketing term. The audience made it clear they were there for Bruce Dickinson, and ...

Revenge Recommends: "Grendel" by Marillion

October 06, 2011 Add Comment Edit

The best progressive rock bands can hardly lie content with simple subject matter. Their musical dexterity and munificence require m...

Come As You Are

October 06, 2011 Add Comment Edit

Cobain, Nihilism, Nirvana In his amusingly-titled article Smells Like Dead Junkie , Jim Goad, an iconoclastic icon if ever there was one, ...

Album Review, Simple Minds, "Graffiti Soul"

October 04, 2011 Add Comment Edit

This is the sound of the New Wave rock legends emerging from the shadows with a re-energized and sparkling cluster of sophisticated rock...

Album Review: Journey, "Eclipse"

October 01, 2011 Add Comment Edit

With the belated success of Don't Stop Believing , Arnel Pineda is always going to be fighting an uphill battle to step out of Steve Pe...

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!