Revenge of Riff Raff

Photo: Joe Perry, Aerosmith

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Joe Perry on stage at the Monsters of Rock, Castle Donington, August 18, 1990. Aerosmith were second on the bill below Whitesnake but ...

Interview: Mark Davis & Dave Fortman, Ugly Kid Joe

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Davis/ Eichstadt/ Fortman/ Crane/ Crockett LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR As you're no doubt sick of reading, Ugly Kid Joe have very qu...

Album Review: Kyte, "Love To Be Lost"

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With a name like Kyte I thought they'd be shite , but although nothing brilliant, they were nearly alright . I wouldn'...

Preview: Franz Ferdinand, Japan, 2006

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Franz Ferdinand put Glasgow on rock's world map Franz Ferdinand's arrival on the music scene last year was hard to miss. N...

Album Review: Heart, "Brigade"

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Heart's latest and to these ears most rounded album to date. We'll skip Wild Child as it doesn't stand up next to the Romeo...

Interview: Inger Lorre, The Nymphs

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PRIMAL TIME THE NYMPHS, an LA band with a bad reputation; black sheep amongst the corporate Rock flock. Their self-titled debut albu...

Interview: Angela Gossow, Arch Enemy

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Liddell : Your voice is astonishing. Do you remember the first time you sang or spoke in that kind of "death growl"? What ...

Live Review: Big Country, Hammersmith Odeon, 23rd or 24th May, 1990

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AT THE CROSSING It's easy to be cynical about Big Country. Out on the road supporting a best of compilation record and admitte...

Live Review: "Superstars or Rock," Knebworth, 30 June 1990

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So ironic that Radio One , our bastion of good, fair radio in this country, should choose to throw their weight behind an event that f...

Photo: Ayumi Hamasaki

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Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki arriving at the 2002 MTV Japan Awards. Photo: C.B. Liddell

Live Review: The Black Crowes, The Marquee, 7th June, 1990

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THE CROWE HAS LANDED The Crowes swagger onstage looking like they'd feel more at home at a 70s music convention than anywhere els...

Album Review: Yeasayer, "Odd Blood"

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One of the great strengths-slash-weaknesses of American music vis-à-vis its British rival is a relative lack of irony. It's hard to ...

Interview: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison

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RIDERS ON THE STORM Riding North on the 134 to Highgate, thinking about the interview I've just done, thinking about Jim Mo...

Photo: Dave King, Flogging Molly

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Dave King of Flogging Molly wearing a Celtic shirt at Liquid Room, Tokyo, 15th April, 2009. Photo: C.B.Liddell

Art: Portrait of Nicky Wire

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A portrait of Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers. It is loosely based on a photo taken by Mitch Ikeda. The painting is by the fam...

Live Review: David Bowie, Docklands Arena, 27th March, 1990

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THE VISION THING Whether you like David Bowie or not you can't fault his irresistible appeal and charismatic charm. Many had trav...

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!