Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Justin Sullivan, New Model Army

July 19, 2013 1 Comment

And England's Dreaming New Model Army's 6th studio album The Love of Hopeless Causes is a harder hitting and more 'liv...

Interview: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull

July 07, 2013 Add Comment

Living in the Present Jethro Tull are something of an institution in the world of rock music. Their brand of hard-edged folk '...

Video Review: Neil Young, "Unplugged"

July 03, 2013 Add Comment

Although supremely shot, Unplugged isn't too visually stimulating but the strength of material satisfies the most selective palate. ...

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!