Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Harry Cody, Shotgun Messiah

December 26, 2014 Add Comment

SKINT...BUT HAPPY This month sees the release of SHOTGUN MESSIAH's second album, the aptly titled Second Coming , and a mighty f...

Revenge Recommends: "Second Skin" by The Chameleons

December 13, 2014 Add Comment

The bass rumble and chiming, echoey guitars of Manchester post-punkers the Chameleons captured in the band's glory days in 1984 at...

Preview: Tina Egan

December 13, 2014 Add Comment

Irish-born vocalist Tina Egan in conjunction with songwriter/ producer Brian Marshall has written more than an album's worth of ...

Album Review: Iron Maiden, "The Final Frontier"

December 13, 2014 Add Comment

You could never accuse Iron Maiden of selling out. So loyal are they to their roots and riff structures that they've taken the...

Preview: Ornette Coleman, Japan, 2006

December 04, 2014 Add Comment

Some jazz legends have a big impact at the time, but as the years pass their influence gradually diminishes until it is forgotten. Th...

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!