Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Mikael Akerfeldt, Opeth

July 21, 2012 Add Comment

Metal band Opeth enjoying the ride On stage Mikael Akerfeldt, lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the Swedish progressi...

Revenge Recommends: "Child In Time" by Deep Purple

July 16, 2012 Add Comment

In memory of Jon Lord, who passed away on Monday the 16th of July in London at the age of 71. Lord was the backbone of Deep Purple....

Interview: Robert DeLeo, Stone Temple Pilots

July 15, 2012 Add Comment

THE LOSER TAKES IT ALL 1992 saw the release of the Stone Temple Pilots debut album, Core , which on initial listening reminded me ...

Photo: Angra at Loud Park 2010

July 13, 2012 Add Comment

Brazilian prog metal band Angra playing the second day of Loud Park 2010 on the 17th of October. This is a two-day metal festival that...

Album Review: Circus of Power, "Vices"

July 09, 2012 Add Comment

Grunge rock from the gutter that owes a debt to the Stones and tips a wink at southern fried boogie along the way. Gates of Love start...

Live Review: The Manic Street Preachers, Cliff's Pavilion, Southend, 7th July, 1993

July 06, 2012 Add Comment

Young, bubbly, gushing English girls flit around in diaphanous dresses, excited beyond their pristine innocence: I must be in a Ken Rus...

Preview: Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic, 2010

July 05, 2012 Add Comment

Fuji, Sonic festivals ready to rumble Summer's here and Japan's two big international music fests – Fuji and Sonic – are prep...

The Fly Column: 'Houses of the Holy' - The True Story?!

July 04, 2012 Add Comment

Led Zepplin were famous not only for their off-beat mixture of Zen and Satanism, and riotous living, but also for their imaginative record...

Album Review: Nirvana, "In Utero"

July 01, 2012 Add Comment

To their credit, Nirvana haven't bothered trying to create Nevermind II . Although, to be blunt, In Utero lacks the sheer explosive,...

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!