Revenge of Riff Raff

ALBUM REVIEW: U2, "NO LINE ON THE HORIZON"

February 28, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Bono (on the left), shortly after his demotion to lance corporal. 2009's No Line on the Horizon represents a minor return to...

The Fly Column: Kurt Cobain in Hole Shock!

February 21, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Has Kurt Cobain finally flipped? The croaky-voiced singer of Nirvana with a major mother complex has quite literally gone back to the...

Revenge Recommends: "Brave New Soldiers" by The Pack

February 15, 2015 Add Comment Edit

A brooding, squalling, and sometimes shrill classic goth-punk track from Kirk Brandon's first band, The Pack. In addition to Bran...

Live Review: Faith No More, Sheffield Octagon, 27th January, 1990

February 08, 2015 3 Comments Edit

What can you say about a band whose guitarist falls over during the first song? Drunk? Crazy? Maybe. But that's exactly what he did...

Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"

February 05, 2015 Add Comment Edit

The twin peaks of Pink Floyd's career are undoubtedly The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall , but between them there also lies a...

BBC: "HAWKWIND - DO NOT PANIC"

February 03, 2015 Add Comment Edit

A BBC "rockumentary" from 2007 about space rock legends Hawkwind, with contributions past members (Lemmy, Michael Moorcock, ...

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!