Revenge of Riff Raff

Letter of the Week, Melody Maker, 23rd October, 1993

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The following is a letter I sent to the Melody Maker back in 1993. It was published as "Letter of the Week" in the 23rd of O...

Revenge Recommends: "National Shite Day" by Half Man Half Biscuit

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In an alternative universe in another dimension the biggest band of the 80s wasn't a po-faced U2. It was actually Half Man Half Biscu...

Photo: Marilyn Manson

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A Marilyn Manson shot taken 18th November, 2004, at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, during the Against All Gods tour supporting the ...

Album Review: Gary Moore, "Still Got The Blues"

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Fret-flicking guitarist Gary Moore has had his share of the 'blues' in the past. First with Thin Lizzy and more recently with hi...

Press Image: John Lydon, Public Image Ltd.

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A press shot of punk and new wave legend John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, taken in 2012 by Paul Heartfield , a well-known portrait...

Interview: Alan White, YES

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All White on the Night For YES, 1991 has definitely been something of a milestone, not only for the band but also for the thousands ...

Album Review: Steve Lukather, "Transition"

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Renowned for his flashy six-string work with Toto , Steve Lukather has opened a new chapter with his seventh solo release. Lyrically ...

Photo: James Dean Bradfield

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

Live Review: Gary Moore, Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, 12th May, 1989

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More of Moore can only be better Somebody's judgment must be wrong. Last year, Yngwie Malmsteen played the Budokan; last week Gar...

Interview: Lou Gramm & Vivian Campbell, Shadow King

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Viv n' Lou Hybrid Vigour The last time I had spoken to Vivian Campbell had been in the gents toilet of a County Down pub/ restauran...

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!