Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Dogs D'Amour, Hammersmith Odeon, 30th October, 1989

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I first saw the Dog D'Amour several years ago at the Embassy club. Tonight it's Hammersmith Odeon. The Dogs haven't changed...

Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins "Machina/ the Machines of God"

December 16, 2013 Add Comment Edit

After the massive success and myriad ideas showcased on the sprawling two hours of Mellon Collie... , Billy Corgan's combo had succe...

Album Review: Okkervil River, "I Am Very Far"

December 14, 2013 Add Comment Edit

The archetypal Okkervil River album song draws from folk and rock, and has a cyclical ascendant feel created by dense, throbbing guitar ...

Live Review: The Quireboys, The Marquee, 12th October, 1989

December 13, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Whiskey in the Bar A clear but cold October evening in London is a far cry from the sunshine and smog of Los Angeles, but the bar ...

Interview: Richie Sambora

December 12, 2013 Add Comment Edit

On hearing that Joe "Schmo" Mackett had been asked to interview RICHIE SAMBORA, I figured that it was time for some severe gr...

Revenge Recommends: "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel

December 07, 2013 Add Comment Edit

Games Without Frontiers is a Peter Gabriel song from his 1980 album. It was inspired by the TV game show "It's a Knockout,&qu...

Album Review: Summerlin, "You Can't Burn Out If You're Not On Fire"

December 01, 2013 Add Comment Edit

I blame the Yorkshire weather. Growing up, the five young lads in Summerlin must have spent a lot of time indoors watching American TV ...

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!