Revenge of Riff Raff

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June 27, 2015 Add Comment

One of the essential components of great rock is lairyness: Definition: "British slang: Displaying an aggressive attitude in orde...

Live Review: Kings X, The Astoria, April, 1990

June 26, 2015 Add Comment

THE X FACTOR The inevitable dry ice billows forth from the stage, followed by a suitable doomy intro; Kings X take the stage we...

Album Review: Die Arzte "...presents Die Arzte"

June 18, 2015 Add Comment

What do you do when you’ve been in a great melodic German punk band for 20 years and the language barriers finally start to break down? ...

Album Review: Fight "War of Words"

June 13, 2015 Add Comment

There's something faintly hilarious about an early 80s metal icon who looks like Wallace (of Wallace and Gromit fame) trying to look...

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!