Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review, The Cult, "Pure Cult"

March 28, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Pure Cult focuses on the halycon moments of the Cult's career, be it the early Gothic tones of Spiritwalker , the psychedelic delight of...

Lost in Translation: The Pogues, Japan 2011

March 28, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Cast to the miracle of Fuji Rock in 2005, Drunken Angel comes back that we really the first time in six years since the tour alone in ...

Album Review, Guns N' Roses, "Use Your Illusion 1&2"

March 26, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Well, after a ridiculous amount of hype that probably saw the death of a forest of trees to print it on and enough controversy to put I...

Preview: The Pogues, Japan 2012

March 24, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Turning Tokyo into a dirty old town Long before Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse got a reputation for falling around London in drugged a...

Album Review, Dream Theater, "A Dramatic Turn of Events"

March 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Dream Theater's 11th 'altar offering' proves to be less 'sacrificial' than first thought after the departure of Mike Por...

Interview: Jon Stevens & Stuart Fraser, Noiseworks

March 20, 2012 1 Comment Edit

NOISEWORKS are hardly a household name over here in the UK. It's in sharp contrast to their status in Australia, where the guys hav...

Press Image: Arch Enemy

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A 2012 press photo of lead guitarist Micahel Amott and singer Angela Gossow of Swedish/German melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. The...

Live Review: Judas Priest, Budokan, 17th Feb, 2012

March 10, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Two hours and twenty minutes of pummelling, shriek-filled, melodic metal, topped off with a version of Living After Midnight that be...

Album Review: Chris Cornell, "Songbook"

March 07, 2012 Add Comment Edit

This is an acoustic live album, but of course you don't get a voice like Chris Cornell's by just singing acoustic. As demonstrat...

"They Can't Take Away My Dignity"

March 06, 2012 Add Comment Edit

After several painful years of committing what may be called slow-motion suicide, pop singer Whitney Houston has perished at the age of 48,...

Photo: Lady Gaga at Yokohama Arena

March 05, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Lady Gaga in the midst of one of her energetic dance routines during a show at Yokohama Arena, Japan, on 17th April, 2010. The song was...

Album Review: YES, "Fly From Here"

March 02, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Virtuoso prog-rock legends YES are back with their first studio offering in 10 years. Produced by former frontman Trevor Horn, Fly From ...

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!