Revenge of Riff Raff

A misunderstood German poet once proclaimed that music must reconcile Apollo and Dionysus. Logic and reason must collide with chaos and...

Album Review: Kiss of the Gypsy, "Kiss of the Gypsy"

March 26, 2014 Add Comment

KISS OF THE GYPSY's self-titled album is quite a surprise in more ways than one. Firstly because of the high-powered Rock on offer...

Album Review: Steve Howe, "Turbulence"

March 16, 2014 Add Comment

YES guitarist STEVE HOWE is without doubt one of the most respected exponents of the instrument in the world today. His precision and i...

Press Image: Maceo Parker

March 13, 2014 Add Comment

In February, 2014, I did an interview with Maceo Parker, the jazz-funk sax legend, best known for his work in James Brown's band. ...

Interview: Pere Fume & Drew Ling, Bootsauce

March 11, 2014 Add Comment

FLYING 'SAUCE'RS For various reasons some interviews are strange. When the BOOTSAUCE job came up I immediately offered my ...

Interview: James Dean Bradfield. Manic Street Preachers

March 05, 2014 Add Comment

OVERCOMING MANIC DEPRESSION The summer festival season is very much about the adventure of youth, as teenagers escape from pa...

Live Review: The Almighty, The Marquee, 9th March, 1990

March 04, 2014 Add Comment

Mighty Fine The Almighty are one of the latest bands to get the buzz treatment at the Marquee. They already have a reputation for b...

Album Review: Foo Fighters, "Foo Fighters"

March 01, 2014 Add Comment

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!