Revenge of Riff Raff

Photo: The Manic Street Preachers

October 27, 2012 Add Comment

James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on stage at Studio Coast, 26th November 2010. Photo: C.B.Liddell

"John Lennon is a Trademark of Yoko Ono Lennon"

October 25, 2012 4 Comments

20 years after he was gunned down outside a New York apartment block, John Lennon is still with us. Here in Japan, he's with us e...

Interview: Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi

October 21, 2012 Add Comment

Faith Hope and Clarity Just before Richie Sambora, guitarist with Bon Jovi, calls from Toronto, I pick up an old biography of the ban...

Album Review: Jimmy Barnes, "Heat"

October 20, 2012 Add Comment

Apparently Mr Barnes, the god from Oz, was trying to rediscover his roots on Heat . What he has done is created a record steeped in fine...

Album Review: Thunder, "Backstreet Symphony"

October 20, 2012 Add Comment

Rising from the ashes of Terraplane, guitarist Luke Morley and drummer Harry 'H' Aitken founded a band called Thunder. The album ...

Profile: Shinki Chen

October 09, 2012 Add Comment

Shinki Chen is a Japanese rock legend as much for what he hasn't done as for what he has. Since his 1972 eponymous solo album, the ...

Revenge Recommends: "Hocus Pocus" by Focus

October 08, 2012 Add Comment

Focus were a Dutch progressive rock band formed in 1969. They were led by Thijs Van Leer, a classically trained musician. On Hocus P...

Album Reviiew: Neal Schon, "The Calling"

October 02, 2012 Add Comment

Every once in a while guitar virtuoso Neal Schon takes a major detour from his main day job as Journey's lead guitarist to indulge in...

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!