Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Kory Clarke, Warrior Soul

May 30, 2014 Add Comment

As we talk, the character that emerges is somewhat of a surprise. In much of the press surrounding both the release of WARRIOR SOUL...

Video Review: "Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch"

May 24, 2014 Add Comment

Let me run a little theory past you: Barack Obama helped prepare the way for this movie. Back in 2008 he was elected promising "Ch...

Album Review, Nazareth, "No Jive"

May 17, 2014 Add Comment

If you thought Nazareth were dead and buried, think again! This, remember, is a band cited by both Brian Johnson and Axl Rose as being a...

Album Review: Joe Bonamassa, "Dust Bowl"

May 07, 2014 Add Comment

Following the big rock sound of Black Country Communion, the concept behind Bonamassa's new solo album Dust Bowl was to move thi...

Live Review: Biffy Clyro, Daikanyama Unit, Tokyo, 1st March, 2010

May 01, 2014 Add Comment

The short route from Britain to America is via the Atlantic, but on their way to a thirty-gig stint pushing the Biffy brand in the Stat...

"Tomorrow's Getting Harder": Bon Jovi and Existential Doom

May 01, 2014 2 Comments

"I ain’t gonna live forever/ I just want to live while I'm alive." by Andy Nowicki To properly engage with his subj...

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!