Revenge of Riff Raff

Retrospective: AC/DC

November 30, 2012 Add Comment

It's a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock n' Roll The AC/DC story begins in Glasgow where both Malcolm and Angus Young we...

Album Review: Oasis "Heathen Chemistry"

November 24, 2012 Add Comment

Ideally music reviews should serve two purposes: (1) to introduce new, obscure music, and (2) to save you (and the record companies) a bi...

Album Review: Circle of Soul, "Hand of Faith"

November 18, 2012 Add Comment

CIRCLE OF SOUL's debut opus Hand Of Faith is one of the best records I've had my grubby little paws on all year. This LA-based,...

Interview: Lita Ford

November 17, 2012 2 Comments

Only the Strong Survive Having spent a hectic year running around the world trying to earn half a living as a so-called freelance jou...

Album Review: Steve Hackett, "Genesis Revisited II"

November 15, 2012 Add Comment

What are we to make of Steve Hackett's penchant for occasionally going back to his Genesis roots, cherry picking the best songs fr...

Revenge Recommends: "Spirit Of 76" by The Alarm

November 09, 2012 Add Comment

A paean to youthful idealism (or juvenile naivety), Spirit of '76 was the epitome of the Alarm's earnest and heartfelt 1980s C...

Preview: Sheryl Crow

November 07, 2012 Add Comment

Sheryl Crow: Getting Personal with Politics If Barack Obama succeeds in becoming the 44th US President following the November 4th e...

Album Review: Gun, "Break the Silence"

November 02, 2012 Add Comment

It's possibly the greatest humiliation in rock. Gun, after all the great Glaswegian rock they have produced, are still best known fo...

Live Review: Gun, The Astoria, 12th February, 1990

November 02, 2012 Add Comment

TOP SHOTS Gun are on the brink of a big breakthrough that others like The Quireboys and Texas have managed to achieve. And judging...

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!