Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Edwards No.8, Birmingham, 1990

June 26, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Just what do you call this stuff? thrash? Hardcore? Speedcore? Crossover? Personally I favour the Crossover monicker, after the first ...

Album Review: Black Sabbath, "13"

June 24, 2013 Add Comment Edit

13 heralds a very welcome return of the old-school signature sound reminiscent of 'vintage' Black Sabbath. The synths and thea...

The Wail of the Cuckold

June 23, 2013 Add Comment Edit

The lyrics of most modern-day pop songs are dippy, dopey, silly, sappy, and altogether crappy. But every so often, we have an anthemic ...

Album Review: FM, "Aphrodisiac"

June 14, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Preview: James Blunt, Japan, 2006

June 02, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Blunt Object 2005 was James Blunt's year. His debut album Back to Bedlam , a mix of bittersweet folk pop and blue–eyed soul wa...

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!