Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Liquid Jesus, "Pour In The Sky"

November 22, 2014 Add Comment

From the opening track Intro which has opera singers' ethereal voices floating over a hypnotic chant and digeridoos, it is obvious ...

The True Story of U2’s Shockingly Bad “Songs of Innocence” Cover Image

November 11, 2014 2 Comments

You will have heard by now that U2’s latest album was forced on the public by being made a compulsory download on iTunes, and that it s...

Album Review: Black Mountain "Wilderness Heart"

November 09, 2014 Add Comment

Canadian five-piece Black Mountain play bluesy rock that veers from a hard and heavy (but always warmly fuzzy) sound to something mor...

Revenge Recommends: "No Quarter" by Led Zeppelin

November 03, 2014 Add Comment

Led Zeppelin live at Earl's Court Arena, London on Sunday, May 25, 1975, with an extended and at times jazzy version of their song No...

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!