Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: John Butler, Diesel Park West

April 25, 2014 Add Comment

GOING FOR A SONG A victim of the labyrinth of London, I come a-tumblin' in to the Columbia Hotel lounge feeling more like a neur...

Best Japanese Song: Electric Eel Shock "Rock & Roll Can Rescue the World"

April 21, 2014 Add Comment

With its rigorously drilled "idol" groups, "cute" tone-deaf singers, rampant cross-media marketing, and questionable m...

Album Review: Poison, "Swallow This Live"

April 05, 2014 Add Comment

Swallow This Live is, as are all live albums really, a greatest hits package in another guise. POISON have come a long way since the da...

Preview: Japan Blues & Soul Carnival 2010

April 04, 2014 Add Comment

Add a taste of rock and reggae to your blues Since starting in 1986 as Japan Blues Carnival , this annual event has brought the ...

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!