Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Hunter/ Ronson, Hammersmith Odeon, 18th February, 1990

May 27, 2013 Add Comment

Returning to these shores from the sunnier climes of the American West Coast, Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson could arguably be accused of j...

Album Review: The Waterboys "Dream Harder"

May 20, 2013 Add Comment

Now relocated to New York, Mike Scott has left behind his bog standard infatuation with Irish traditional music and returned with this ...

Interview: Chick Corea

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The "Bushido" Code of Jazz In December of 2009, Chick Corea, in company with Lenny White and Stanley Clarke, played a ru...

Revenge Recommends, "Mother" by Pink Floyd

May 12, 2013 Add Comment

In time for Mothers' Day, here's one of the greatest rock songs ever about mothers. In the late 70s punk rock was suppo...

Album Review: Therapy? "Nurse"

May 08, 2013 Add Comment

This is a thoroughly nasty little dose of psychotic techno-Punk from the much-touted Ulstermen. It's also a faintly bewildering rec...

Album Review: Grant Lee Buffalo, "Fuzzy"

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Not a mere man, Grant Lee Buffalo are indeed a band hailing form the US of A who offer an eclectic mixture of styles held together unde...

The Fly: Bono's Unfeasibly Large Ego

May 04, 2013 1 Comment

One of the strangest album covers in rock history was 2009's No Line On The Horizon by U2. The sleeve's picture was actually...

Album Review: Fish, "Internal Exile"

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Locked within the PETER GABRIEL/ PHIL COLLINS niche, FISH is mastered in the art of whimsicality and at his best can emulate the expres...

Live Review: Pearl Jam, Brixton Academy, 14th July, 1993

May 01, 2013 Add Comment

"Lookee here!" Eddie dangles a tampon before his Jim Morrisonian leer. "It's the personal gifts that mean the most, ...

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!