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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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Interview: Harry Cody, Shotgun Messiah

December 26, 2014 Add Comment Edit
SKINT...BUT HAPPY This month sees the release of SHOTGUN MESSIAH's second album, the aptly titled Second Coming , and a mighty f...
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Revenge Recommends: "Second Skin" by The Chameleons

December 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit
The bass rumble and chiming, echoey guitars of Manchester post-punkers the Chameleons captured in the band's glory days in 1984 at...
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Preview: Tina Egan

December 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Irish-born vocalist Tina Egan in conjunction with songwriter/ producer Brian Marshall has written more than an album's worth of ...
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Album Review: Iron Maiden, "The Final Frontier"

December 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit
You could never accuse Iron Maiden of selling out. So loyal are they to their roots and riff structures that they've taken the...
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Preview: Ornette Coleman, Japan, 2006

December 04, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Some jazz legends have a big impact at the time, but as the years pass their influence gradually diminishes until it is forgotten. Th...
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Album Review: Liquid Jesus, "Pour In The Sky"

November 22, 2014 Add Comment Edit
From the opening track Intro which has opera singers' ethereal voices floating over a hypnotic chant and digeridoos, it is obvious ...
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Live Review: Marillion, The Astoria, 7th November, 1989

November 18, 2014 Add Comment Edit
The Kings of London Town Steve Hogarth: smell the gloves. There was a time when no-one could have conceived a Marillion without Fis...
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The True Story of U2’s Shockingly Bad “Songs of Innocence” Cover Image

November 11, 2014 2 Comments Edit
You will have heard by now that U2’s latest album was forced on the public by being made a compulsory download on iTunes, and that it s...
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Album Review: Black Mountain "Wilderness Heart"

November 09, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Canadian five-piece Black Mountain play bluesy rock that veers from a hard and heavy (but always warmly fuzzy) sound to something mor...
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Revenge Recommends: "No Quarter" by Led Zeppelin

November 03, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Led Zeppelin live at Earl's Court Arena, London on Sunday, May 25, 1975, with an extended and at times jazzy version of their song No...
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INTERVIEW: WAYNE HUSSEY, THE MISSION

October 29, 2014 Add Comment Edit
 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED "I am a bit of an old fogey," Wayne Hussey tells me proudly. Surely, Wayne, you cannot be ser...
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Revenge Recommends: "Infected" by The THE

Revenge Recommends: "Infected" by The THE

October 18, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Back in 1986, when The THE released their second album Infected , they little realized that the deadly Ebola virus would be sweeping t...
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Interview: Eddi Reader

October 18, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Ex-pop star finds bliss in Scottish folk Sometimes you have to go away to come home. That seems to have been the case for Eddi Reader...
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Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

October 14, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Radiohead get round their songwriting poverty by developing initially startling soundscapes that simply dont belong on a rock record....
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Album Review: Edwyn Collins, "Losing Sleep"

October 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Back in the day – the day being the early 1980s – Edwyn Collins and his then band Orange Juice practically invented the indie guitar po...
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New Release: "Play Ball" by AC/DC

New Release: "Play Ball" by AC/DC

October 08, 2014 Add Comment Edit
The first track available from AC/DC forthcoming album Rock Or Bust , due out this December, the first album without Malcolm Young.
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Interview: David Gleeson, Screaming Jets

October 04, 2014 Add Comment Edit
 Fuck Rock N' Roll Tear on Thought in comparison to its predecessor All For One sports a much punkier attitude. It's fu...
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Quote: James Dean Bradfield on "Sons and Fascination"

October 03, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Welsh guitar wizard James Dean Bradfield on one of his favourite albums, Simple Minds' 1981 classic  Sons and Fascination : "...
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New Release: "Doom Philosophy" by Sorrow's Path

New Release: "Doom Philosophy" by Sorrow's Path

October 01, 2014 Add Comment Edit
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Interview: Scott Ian & John Bush, Anthrax

September 22, 2014 Add Comment Edit
A THOUSAND POINTS OF NOISE Anthrax have been through a turbulent time lately, what with the departure of singer Joey Belladonna....
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Interview: Fish

September 06, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Singer/ songwriter, Fish, has just broken a lengthy period of enforced silence with his new album, "Internal Exile." The past ye...
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Interview: Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne

September 05, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Offbeat band a hit with white-collar songs American popular music is notoriously selective in its choice of topics. This is somethi...
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Song by Song: "The Joshua Tree" by U2

September 02, 2014 Add Comment Edit
The Joshua Tree was U2's most important album. It marks the point at which they became a global brand as big as The Beatles or The...
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Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins, "Siamese Dream"

August 30, 2014 Add Comment Edit
The Pumpkins are never going to be as good as Nirvana. They're already much better. This album is a seamless lava flow of burni...
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Live Review: Jethro Tull, Portsmouth Guildhall, 19th May 1990

August 25, 2014 Add Comment Edit
 THE ENDLESS ENIGMA The enigma of Jethro Tull is captured in the opening moments of their show. As an introductory tape of a cla...
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Overview: U2

July 26, 2014 Add Comment Edit
In a recent world exclusive with Hot Press magazine, Bono talked at great length to Joe Jackson about, well, just about everything, i...
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Album Review: Laibach, "Spectre"

July 24, 2014 1 Comment Edit
There have always been doubts about just who Laibach are and what they are up to. First who are they? The band is a collective so it is...
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Interview: Donnie Vie & Chip Z'Nuff, Enuff Z'Nuff

July 16, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Donnie Vie, Chip Z'Nuff, DerekFrigo, & Vikki Fox ANIMAL INSTINCT Joe Mackett finds out how Enuff Z'Nuff have sur...
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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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