Revenge of Riff Raff

Profile: Atsushi Sakurai

September 29, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Recognized as one of the founders of visual-kei, Buck-Tick is influenced by the likes of David Bowie, Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus, ...

Interview: Steve Hogarth, Marillion

September 29, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Hog's Eye I first saw Marillion back in 1983 at Brimingham Odeon. They were a special band: so different, so refreshing, so yout...

Album Review: Marillion, "Sounds That Can't Be Made"

September 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit

After what seems like an age Prog rockers Marillion have returned to the fold brimming with new ideas. From the opening eastern orchest...

Revenge Recommends: "White" by The Cult

September 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit

It is often the case that a demo version of a song will prove superior to the final polished version. As the song is pushed through produ...

Interview: Chuck Schuldiner, Death

September 14, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Post Mortem Chuck Schuldiner, vocalist and guitarist of DEATH, is anxious to clear his name. Armed with a new DEATH LP, called Hum...

Album Review: Depeche Mode "Exciter"

September 13, 2012 Add Comment Edit

With a name like a dubious aphrodisiac jelly, the latest effort by the ever-boyish Depeche Mode, promises more of the 'pervy' ly...

Interview: Michael Lee, The Cult

September 09, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Straight from the Horse's Mouth Since splitting from THE LITTLE ANGELS, drummer Michael Lee has come in for an awful lot of fla...

Album Review: Alice in Chains, "Dirt"

September 05, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Dirt is a wigged out eruption of riff-heavy psychedelia that is fleetingly reminiscent of a more pissed-off Kings X, focused through the...

Interview: Patti Smith

September 01, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Don't Call Her a Survivor The last time Metropolis spoke with storied muse Patti Smith was soon after 9/11. She'd come to Jap...

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!