Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Wolfsbane, Bradford Queens Hall, 10th March, 1990

March 31, 2015 Add Comment

Tamworth's finest returned from the USA to Bradford for the second date of their tour. They got a heroes welcome as they walked o...

Live Review: Drums, Shibuya Quattro, 18th May, 2011

March 28, 2015 Add Comment

It's par for the course now. You come to Japan for a gig, you make obeisance at the shrine of the Great Quake. You at least ask ...

Album Review: Asphalt Ballet, "Asphalt Ballet"

March 15, 2015 Add Comment

We, as a magazine, have been chasing the progress of this band for some time. They were first brought to our attention via dear Babs ov...

Interview: Emily Haines, Metric

March 11, 2015 Add Comment

The great dilemma for modern rock musicians is the need to maintain the creativity of earlier generations along with the constant f...

Interview: Kelvin Morris, Discharge

March 09, 2015 3 Comments

Rising like a phoenix, Stoke-On-Trent's Punk/Rock heroes and music pioneers DISCHARGE are back. Two original members of the band, ...

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!