Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Joey Belladonna, Anthrax

June 28, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Currently touring the US on the ambitious 'Clash of the Titans' tour, ANTHRAX and co-headliners SLAYER and MEGADETH, along w...

Album Review: Asia, "XXX"

June 26, 2012 2 Comments Edit

Thirty years after their classic self-titled debut ascended to the top of the U.S. charts the 'original' line-up of Asia are ...

Live Review: U2, Wembley Stadium, 11th August 1993

June 25, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Salman Rushdie, under sentence of death by the Ayatollah's of Iran, stands on the stage in front of 72,000 with Bono's Satani...

Album Review: U2 "Zooropa"

June 23, 2012 Add Comment Edit

According to Bono, Zooropa was a snapshot rather than a rock'n'roll record. Recorded quickly, there is a further shift in the so...

Album Review: The Temper Trap, "The Temper Trap"

June 23, 2012 Add Comment Edit

London-based Australian soft-rockers, The Temper Trap weren't happy with the production of their 2009 debut album Conditions , feeli...

Preview: Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic, 2009

June 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Summer Sonic to make some noise Largely inspired by English role models, the Japanese Summer music festival season has pretty much se...

Album Review: John Wetton, "Raised In Captivity"

June 20, 2012 Add Comment Edit

British singer/songwriter John Wetton has treaded the boards with rock royalty and as such his sixth solo album is the latest gem in a c...

Preview: Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic, 2008

June 20, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Summer rock festivals offer different vibes With summer music festivals becoming an increasingly popular part of the music calenda...

Album Review: Great White, "Elation"

June 19, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Great White's pure passion for music hasn’t faltered despite 'personnel' trials and tribulations. The band's 12th studio ...

Album Review: Mr. Big, "What If..."

June 18, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Given the acrimonious nature of Mr. Big's implosion 15 years ago, the cover artwork of a flying pig is a succinct jibe at the fact ...

Interview: Tony Clarkin, Magnum

June 17, 2012 Add Comment Edit

A Right Royal Welcome Veteran rock stalwarts Magnum will shortly release their eighth studio album Goodnight LA upon us. After year...

Album Review: Rush, "Clockwork Angels"

June 13, 2012 Add Comment Edit

In their time Rush have produced some of the finest recorded moments in rock history, be it guitar-driven hard rock, their late '70...

Album Review: The Cult, "Choice of Weapon"

June 11, 2012 1 Comment Edit

If Ian Astbury had been at the Battle of the Little Big Horn he would have joined the Indians and still have got scalped as a paleface....

Interview: Ian Astbury, The Cult

June 09, 2012 Add Comment Edit

With internet downloads, I-Pods, and other technological breakthroughs, the attention spans of fans and the vinyl-defined parameters of ...

Live Review: Nymphs, Marquee, 1992

June 09, 2012 Add Comment Edit

The natives are getting restless. Inger's late. Rumour has it that she can't find her favourite floppy stage hat. Truth is th...

Video Review: Iron Maiden, "En Vivo"

June 05, 2012 Add Comment Edit

There's something about Latin American metal audiences that makes for great live vids. AC/DC had already used the good people of Bu...

Interview: Spike & Guy Bailey, The Quireboys

June 05, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Best Bitter A Bit Of What You Fancy established the Quireboys as bona fide British contenders. However, management changes, product...

Album Review: Saxon, "Call To Arms"

June 04, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Call To Arms is the sum of the 30 years Saxon have been riding the proverbial Wheels Of Steel. Amidst the galloping, anthemic Heavy M...

Live Review: Guns N' Roses, Milton Keynes Bowl, 29th May, 1993

June 03, 2012 Add Comment Edit

To be fair G'n'R have stripped off some of the garish excesses of the last 18 months, i.e. there’s no horn sections and sultry, ...

Album Review: Accept, "Stalingrad"

June 03, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Comeback albums are often like middle-aged men getting new Porsches: i.e. something that bands to do just to prove they've still got...

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!