Revenge of Riff Raff

Video Review: Monsters in Moscow

May 21, 2015 Add Comment

Covering the "Monsters of Rock" show of 1991 in Moscow. Soon after the failed plot by Communist hardliners to overthrow Pre...

Video: The WHO – Chaotic Interview from 1973

May 21, 2015 Add Comment

Why were the Who such a great band? One reason was the incredible energy generated by the interplay of the unruly personalities of the...

Revenge Recommends: "When Love Comes to Town" by B.B. King and U2

May 15, 2015 Add Comment

Blues legend, B.B.King has passed away at the grand old age of 89. Here he is more or less as I remember him, playing with U2 on their...

Album Review: XYZ, "Hungry"

May 15, 2015 Add Comment

"Every night is Saturday night for us, and hungry is what we are. It's one guitar, one voice, drums, bass, skin, bones, rock n...

Revenge Recommends: "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" by Alice Cooper

May 11, 2015 Add Comment

The Ballad of Dwight Fry is a high point of any Alice Cooper show, a tense, psychotic song that breaks its bounds towards the end – j...

Interview: Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals

May 11, 2015 Add Comment

Having worked with one of the Beatles, it shouldn't be too surprising that Gruff Rhys, the singer/guitarist of eclectic Welsh roc...

Album Review: Alice Cooper, "Welcome 2 My Nightmare"

May 07, 2015 1 Comment

From Michael Jackson's zombie dancing in Thriller to Slipknot's famed alter egos, and the psycho-clown affectations of the J...

Sympathy for Their Satanic Majesties

May 06, 2015 Add Comment

Their Satanic Majesties Request is, to my mind, the most British and therefore the most authentic of all Rolling Stones albums. Their ...

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!