Revenge of Riff Raff

INTERVIEW: TRAVIS MITCHELL, MINDSTORM

October 22, 2015 3 Comments Edit

Critically acclaimed Canadian rockers MINDSTORM will be here touring through November and December, out to promote a strikingly powerful...

"IT'S OUR LAND; WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT!"

October 11, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Orit Arfa, Settler Slut for Greater Israel Last year, following her now-infamous appearance on the VMAs, I weighed in on Miley Cyrus&...

PRESS IMAGE: CATHEDRAL 2011

October 05, 2015 Add Comment Edit

This was one of the press images I received when doom rockers Cathedral played a few shows in Japan, back in 2011, a few months after t...

REVIEW: KAISER CHIEFS, "THE FUTURE IS MEDIEVAL"

October 02, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Bloody typical! Kaiser Chief’s best album is their poorest selling. 2011’s Future Is Medieval was the band’s fourth album. In America...

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!