Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Slide, Camden Palace, 30th January, 1990

November 27, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Slide It In Camden Palace on a Tuesday night isn't exactly the best place for a young, aspiring, straight-down-the-line rock ban...

Revenge Recommends: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

November 24, 2013 Add Comment Edit

On this day (24th November) in 1991, Freddie Mercury, probably the greatest Zoroastrian since the Emperor Chosroes II of the Sassanian...

The Pimp Fascism of Rihanna

November 22, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Three orifices held together by an intermediate biomorphic mass. I've never really seen what all the fuss is about Rihanna, who...

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...

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...

Revenge Recommends: "Rock n' Roll Suicide" by David Bowie

November 10, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Photo: Lee Dorian, Cathedral

November 10, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Following the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake which struck Japan on March 11th, 2011, many bands and musicians played safe and cancelled ...

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'...

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...

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&...

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!