Revenge of Riff Raff

Video Review: Black Sabbath, "The Black Sabbath Story Volume One"

January 31, 2013 Add Comment

This SABBATH vid covers the band at the same time of their biggest influence on world music from 1970 to '78. There is lots of rare...

Album Review: Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair "Words of Wisdom and Hope"

January 26, 2013 Add Comment

Jad who? I hear you ask. Well, the lyricist and singer on this quirky collaboration with the Scottish guitar poppers is an obscure offbe...

Album Review: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, "Mature Themes"

January 24, 2013 Add Comment

Ariel Pink is the king of indie weirdos. For the better part of a decade, he recorded strange lo-fi pop records in his bedroom, then spent...

Art: Atsushi Sakurai

January 23, 2013 Add Comment

A career of caterwauling Japanese "visual-kei" rock has not been in vain. At last the Muses have condescended to immortalize ...

Video Review: Testament, "Seen Between The Lines"

January 19, 2013 Add Comment

Music videos are hard to do, some of them turn out really good, a few are excellent and many are a disappointment. TESTAMENT's new v...

Live Review: Paul McCartney, Tokyo Dome, March 11, 1991

January 16, 2013 Add Comment

MR. YESTERDAY The Japanese have a strange temple in central Tokyo, where they come to pay homage to the Gods of Western Culture. It...

Album Review: David Byrne & St. Vincent, "Love This Giant"

January 13, 2013 Add Comment

Wow, a collaborative album between two dissimilar musicians that's actually worth listening to! And here I didn't think it was ...

Live Review: Santana, Hammersmith Odeon, 1st June, 1990

January 10, 2013 Add Comment

Kind of Magic This is the last night of three at the 'Hammy' and the second to be sold out. You can sense the fervour in th...

Preview: The Arctic Monkeys, Japan, 2006

January 04, 2013 Add Comment

MONKEY BUSINESS The big record companies and media conglomerates are worried. Or at least they want you to think that they are. The...

Revenege Recommends: "Art of Flying" by Lady Pank

January 03, 2013 Add Comment

For those wishing to learn about Polish rock a good place to start is "Sztuka latania" ( Art of Flying ), a song by the po...

Interview: Joey Ramone, The Ramones

January 02, 2013 Add Comment

1-2-3-4! Can you believe it? 17 years since their inception, and THE RAMONES haven't changed a bit. Born out of the Punk era, t...

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!