Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Herbie Hancock

May 30, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Revisiting his Countless Connections When Herbie Hancock brings his quartet to Japan this October, it will be like coming home. Thi...

Interview: Chick Corea

May 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Is it possible to be creative by only emphasizing the positives? Jazz legend and keyboard tinkler extraordinaire Chick Corea certainl...

Album Review: Michael Monroe, "Sensory Overdrive"

May 26, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Hindsight's a wonderful thing, especially if you can remember enough to manifest the best into a 'Sensory Overdrive' of rock...

Live Review: Paul McCartney, Tokyo Dome, 12th November, 1993

May 26, 2012 1 Comment Edit

Bass player Hamish Stuart with Paul McCartney Politics Cloud McCartney's Success Paul McCartney may not be looking for absolut...

The Fly: The Groupie Column

May 25, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Following the success of our now legendary Payola Column (we got a postal order for 50p), The FLY brings all you horny rock chicks out t...

Live Review: The Grip, The Astoria, 1990

May 25, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Hold Tight Undaunted by the lack of followers William leads the Grip charge across the Astoria stage. Coming on like you're pl...

Album Review: Joe Bonamassa, "Driving Towards The Daylight"

May 23, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Guitar god Joe Bonamassa has gone back-to-basics for his 13th studio album. Harking back to the glory days of early '60s rock n'...

Album Review: The BulletBoys, "Za-Za"

May 20, 2012 Add Comment Edit

It might be a case of too little too late for the US dick rockers. Ridiculed in the past for being the poor man's Van Halen, circa D...

Live Review: All About Eve, Royal Albert Hall, 10th April, 1990

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One Enchanted Eve’ning It’s a stage adorned by the greatest orchestras of the world, its seats graced by royalty. But tonight, All...

Album Review: Whitesnake, "Forevermore"

May 18, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Rumours pertaining to the death of David Coverdale's voice have been greatly exaggerated. A few bars into swaggering opener Steal You...

Interview: Stump Monroe, The Almighty

May 16, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Power Tourin' There's no doubt that the ferocity of their third album Powertrippin' has taken The Almighty to a new lev...

Live Review: The Pogues, Studio Coast, Tokyo, 28th March, 2012

May 13, 2012 Add Comment Edit

It's been six years since The Pogues were last here, so there's a real hunger to see the eight-piece band fronted by the legendary...

Album Review: Asia, "Omega"

May 12, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Following on from 2008's celebrated comeback 'reunion' album Phoenix , legendary British Progressive Rock supergroup Asia ha...

Album Review: Europe, "Bag of Bones"

May 10, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Swedish hard rockers Europe have gone back to blues basics for their 9th studio album Bag Of Bones with the help of producer Kevin Shir...

Interview: Tony Kakko, Sonata Arctica

May 08, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Warming up to Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica There must be something hip about the Arctic, otherwise today's trendiest new ban...

Album Review: UFO, "Seven Deadly"

May 07, 2012 1 Comment Edit

UFO's 21st studio album Seven Deadly represents a return to the classy hard rock sound upon which their reputation was originally fou...

Interview: Andy Cairns, Therapy?

May 01, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Andy Cairns faces up to the strange fact that he enjoys rockin' out with Stateside babes... Ulster's Therapy? have come a lon...

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!