Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Parov Stelar, Strasbourg Zenith, April 2015

April 29, 2015 Add Comment

A Stelar Performance... So, who exactly are the 'Parov Stelar Band' and what do they really play? Some call it "jazz...

Interview: Geoff Thorpe, Vicious Rumors

April 26, 2015 Add Comment

Balls to the Wall It's been a while since San Francisco act VICIOUS RUMORS launched an album. About a year to be precise. Their ...

Album Review: Misha Calvin, “Evolution”

April 10, 2015 Add Comment

Listening to the creative, exuberant six string talent of Yugoslavian-born Misha 'The Hat' Calvin is a welcome antidote to th...

Photo: Mike Scott on Stage in Tokyo

April 08, 2015 Add Comment

Mike Scott of the Waterboys live on stage at the Shibuya Club Quattro on 6th of April, 2015, their first gig in Tokyo for 18 year...

Album Review, Deep Purple, "Battle Rages On"

April 03, 2015 Add Comment

Following Joe Lynn Turner's departure from the Deep Purple ranks, Purple MK II have re-reformed, cashing in the lucarative prospe...

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!