Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Robert Plant "Fate of Nations"

January 29, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Plant on the state of the planet? Sort of. The cover, sleevenotes and some of the lyrics do preoccupy themselves with such weighty iss...

Photo: Myles Matheny, The Drums

January 26, 2014 Add Comment Edit

On 18th May, 2011, The Drums played a gig at Shibuya Quattro. The stage was very poorly lit from the point of view of a photographe...

Live Review: Faith No More, Hammersmith Odeon, 27th April, 1990

January 19, 2014 Add Comment Edit

It seems from the word go that this evening’s proceedings are very likely to get somewhat vigorous. This it does from the moment the ba...

Album Review: Procul Harum, "Prodigal Stranger"

January 15, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Best remembered for the classic Whiter Shade Of Pale , PROCUL HARUM return with their first album since the break up in 1977. From ten ...

Interview: Richard Archer, Hard-Fi

January 08, 2014 Add Comment Edit

FROM CCTV to MTV: HARD-FI VISIT THE HOME OF THE HI-FI "We've sold a million records and we've done five nights at the B...

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!