Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Jamie Reynolds, The Klaxons

April 30, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Pop Punks Sound the Sirens for New Rave's Trip to Nowhere The old deal whereby naïve, young musicians were taken up by the mid...

Interview: Tim Ferris, Celebrity Skin

April 28, 2013 Add Comment Edit

CELEBRITY SKIN are a colorful, exuberant quintet straight from the heart of Tinsel Town. Pop-fixated rock n' rollers with a few qui...

Interview: Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes

April 19, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Ghosts in the Machine THE BLACK CROWES, those soulful, uncompromising rootsy rockers, recently paid a flying visit to our capital c...

Album Review: Midnight Oil "Scream in Blue Live"

April 16, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Live albums are a bit of a contradiction. If you want to enjoy live music, go to a gig - or at least get a video! Listening to this and ...

Photo: John Lydon

April 15, 2013 Add Comment Edit

On 5th April, 2013, Public Image Ltd. played a gig at Shibuya Ax in Tokyo. Here is singer John Lydon caught doing what looks suspiciousl...

Album Review: Saxon, "Sacrifice"

April 13, 2013 Add Comment Edit

With a band like SAXON, who have been around since the year dot, you know what to expect. In their case, classic NWOBHM with a few tweak...

Revenge Recommends: "The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies" by Pete Wylie

April 08, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Album Review: Michael Schemker Group, "MSG"

April 07, 2013 2 Comments Edit

Time was that Michael Schenker belonged to that rare breed of guitarists capable of moving even the most hard-hearted Rocker to tears. As...

Interview: Jack Barnett, These New Puritans

April 06, 2013 Add Comment Edit

The Noiseniks and Taiko Fetishists Don't Really Want War These New Puritans 2008 debut album Beat Pyramid established the e...

Fly Column: News - Billy Idol in Airport Shutdown

April 02, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Ex-punk superstar, Billy Idol, famous for test crashing Harley Davidsons and sneering, was again in trouble, this time with airport auth...

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!