Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Video: Esie singing "Perfect World" at Shibuya MilkyWay

February 25, 2014 Add Comment

Electro-punk diva Esie singing "Perfect World" at Shibuya Milkyway on the 4th of June, 2011.

Album Review: Mick Jagger "Wandering Spirit"

February 23, 2014 Add Comment

Ole rubber-lipped, arthritic-hipped Mick has finally managed to come up with a more than decent solo album, which sees the strutting ...

Album Review: Yngwie Malmsteen, "Fire And Ice"

February 22, 2014 Add Comment

I'd imagine that perhaps the only person I've met who believes Yngwie is God would be the man himself. Conversely, there's p...

Album Review: BB Steal, "On the Edge"

February 14, 2014 Add Comment

BB Steal are another Aussie band having a go at the world stage. And strangely, the band claim influences from AC/DC and LED ZEPPELIN. ...

Interview: Paul Stanley, Kiss

February 13, 2014 Add Comment

PARTY ON DUDES Having just notched up another most excellent hit with God Gave Rock N'Roll To You II , the Kiss men prepare to ...

Album Review, Dio, "Strange Highways"

February 10, 2014 Add Comment

After the Black Sabbath debacle, RJD has wasted no time in reassembling Dio with his old mate Vinnie Appice. And with the likes of Je...

Revenge Recommends: "England Belongs To Me" by Cock Sparrer

February 09, 2014 Add Comment

Cock Sparrer were a bunch of Cockney punks from the East End of London, who refused to be signed by Malcolm MacLaren in 1977, and went on...

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!