Revenge of Riff Raff

Revenge Recommends: "Our Kindergarten Teacher" by North Korean Children

January 29, 2012 Add Comment Edit

North Korean communism may be extremely inept at simple agricultural production, resulting in frequent food shortages and even starvati...

Album Review, Muse, "The Resistance"

January 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit

The Resistance is Muse's most ambitious album yet: extravagant, technically accomplished, epic rock providing a solid setting for Matt ...

Interview: Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue

January 23, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Crue(sing) The Fast Lane As Donington looms, the return of MOTLEY CRUE is much anticipated as is the release of a compilation spannin...

Photo: Kirk Hammett, Metallica

January 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit

A somewhat yellowed-by-time picture scanned from the June 1993 issue of Riff Raff. The shot was probably taken on either the 24th or 25th...

Album Review, Glenn Hughes, "Blues"

January 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Although not the groundbreaking record people might expect, Glenn Hughes Blues does have its moments when "The Voice" takes off ...

Preview: Kula Shaker, Japan 2008

January 21, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Rock is supposed to be about freedom and expression, but over the years it has become increasingly subject to a creeping campaign of pol...

Album Review, Billy Idol, "Cyberpunk"

January 17, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Our Bill rides off into the LA sunset and comes a cropper, convalesces with a computer to keep him company and writes an LP influenced by hi...

Revenge Recommends: "Ring The Bells" by James

January 15, 2012 Add Comment Edit

By and large, the 90s was a weak decade musically. One of the highpoints, however, was James, a rather over-staffed band from Mancheste...

Album Review, River City People, "This is the World"

January 14, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Hmm...it must have been those big doe eyes, that Spanish bolero hat...uhm...the furrowed brow, glacial rock of Walking On Ice . Poin...

Live Review: The Alarm, Brixton Academy, 15th February, 1990

January 09, 2012 1 Comment Edit

United Strength I always find Brixton Academy a rather sad venue, a once beautiful building long past its best in a worse than bad ...

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!