Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: The Kills, "Blood Pressures"

June 23, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Best get it out of the way: Jamie Hince, the guitar-toting half of this male-female duo (shades of White Stripes) is getting hitched...

Quote: Keith Richards on Teenage Fans

June 22, 2014 Add Comment Edit

"The power of the teenage females of thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, when they’re in a gang, has never left me. They nearly killed me...

Preview: Beck, Japan 2009

June 14, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Singer's deadpan diversity reflects life's complexity Musicians can follow several paths to success: virtuoso command o...

Revenge Recommends: "New Age" by Blitz

June 08, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Another working class British band from the punk/ post-punk era with a "Nazi-esque" name, Blitz (as in blitzkrieg) with ...

Interview: Miranda Lee Richards

June 06, 2014 Add Comment Edit

"The planets all aligned for music in the sixties." Beauty can be a mixed blessing, especially in the case of a female ...

Video Review: The Almighty, "Soul Destruction Live"

June 01, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Down at the old Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, London, last year THE ALMIGHTY put on one helluva gig, and it so happens that 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!