Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Van Halen, "A Different Kind Of Truth"

February 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit

The essence of VH past was a joie de vivre , an attitude that the music be uplifting, sometimes left-field and quietly fun. So can A Dif...

Live Review: Thin Lizzy, High Voltage Festival, Victoria Park, 23rd July, 2011

February 19, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Damon Johnson & Scott Gorham There'll always be divided opinions about the Lizzy reformation, simply because there are two generat...

Photo: Judas Priest at the Budokan

February 17, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Judas Priest guitarists Richie Faulkner and Glenn Tipton on stage at the Budokan in Japan, 17th February 2012. Photo: Colin Liddell

Live Review: Public Image, Town & Country, 3rd May, 1992

February 15, 2012 Add Comment Edit

"Back by popular demand," cackles the man who needs no introduction, John Lydon. PiL are back in the capital city, playing to a &...

Interview: Carl Barât

February 11, 2012 1 Comment Edit

The ex-Libertine is finally free to step away from the big guitars Thanks to Japan's often surprising interest in the British ...

Revenge Recommends: "Hold The Heathen Hammer High" by Týr

February 08, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Týr (rhymes with 'beer') are a pagan folk metal band from the Faroe Islands (between Scotland and Iceland) who sing in English....

Album Review, Marc Bolan, "Anthology"

February 07, 2012 Add Comment Edit

I could have done this review in three words really. "It's Fuckin' Brilliant," but unfortunately the Editor usually re...

Album Review, Prong, "Prove You Wrong"

February 04, 2012 1 Comment Edit

Prove You Wrong is New York trio PRONG's second offering on a major label. In all honesty, I know nothing of their previous work eit...

Album Review: Richard Marx, "Rush Street"

February 03, 2012 Add Comment Edit

This album is like a million pound car with every accessory you can imagine, bar one essential part – the engine. I’m telling ya, there is ...

Live Review: Whitesnake, Akasaka Blitz, 24th Oct, 2011

February 02, 2012 Add Comment Edit

I remember seeing the Rolling Stones twenty years ago thinking how lucky I was to catch what would certainly be one of their last concer...

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!