Revenge of Riff Raff

Overview: U2

July 26, 2014 Add Comment

In a recent world exclusive with Hot Press magazine, Bono talked at great length to Joe Jackson about, well, just about everything, i...

Album Review: Laibach, "Spectre"

July 24, 2014 1 Comment

There have always been doubts about just who Laibach are and what they are up to. First who are they? The band is a collective so it is...

Interview: Leigh Matty & Craig Joiner, Romeo's Daughter

July 06, 2014 Add Comment

Wild and Willing British rock music is making a comeback. Well, that's what everybody reckons. With the success of bands like t...

Revenge Recommends: "Der Panzerlied"

July 06, 2014 Add Comment

Although this site is mainly rock n' roll, we also have an interest in music in a wider sense, plus you can't really get more...

Album Review: Japandroids, "Celebration Rock"

July 05, 2014 Add Comment

There's nothing quite like simplicity. Fuck your ukuleles, fuck your French horns, fuck your multi-voice vocal interplay and especial...

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!