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Revenge of Riff Raff

The sordid internet afterlife of a 90s rock magazine

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Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 80s and 90s. A genuine working class rock mag, written and edited in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, it was just too R n’R for its own good, falling behind more trainspotterly publications like Q, Kerrang, and Mojo. This website is an archive and kind of shrine to the writing of its greatest "hacks," who heroically defy the forces that destroyed the once mighty magazine by continuing to write about music, or at least listen to it through their shattered eardrums.

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November 22, 2013 Add Comment Edit
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Interview: Stuart Adamson, Big Country

November 16, 2013 Add Comment Edit
In may be early in the morning but Big Country's Stuart Adamson is full of bonhomie and very much awake. Stuart is speaking to me f...
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Album Review: Giant, "Last of the Runaways"

November 14, 2013 Add Comment Edit
Out of America come Giant with their A&M debut. It's a typically American effort, with much of the material drawing on many AOR...
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Photo: Lee Dorian, Cathedral

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Following the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake which struck Japan on March 11th, 2011, many bands and musicians played safe and cancelled ...
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Interview: Corey Glover, Living Colour

November 07, 2013 Add Comment Edit
NOBODY'S PERFECT Here I am sitting in the relative splendor of Living Colour's hotel suite. Opposite me is the band'...
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Album Review: Travis "The Invisible Band"

November 06, 2013 Add Comment Edit
There used to be a time when the Brits made all the heavy rock, while the Yanks turned out winsome, countryish pop-rock. Now all the heav...
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Video Review: Mr. Big, "Lean Into It"

November 03, 2013 Add Comment Edit
There's a special message on this video from Pat Torpey (drums): "When you're in the tub - don't use a hairdryer. Cos&...
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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!


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