Revenge of Riff Raff

Photo: Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden

January 28, 2016 Add Comment

Typical full-page photo in Riff Raff, this one shot by Phil Kehoe at an Iron Maiden gig.

Live Review: The Mission, Wembley Arena, 23rd March, 1990

January 27, 2016 Add Comment

Photo by Dave Clark Shomeshing Missioning Think of the MISSION and up springs the cliches, i.e. the dry ice, dark shades, swirling...

INTERVIEW: JOIE MASTROKALOS, CIRCLE OF SOUL

January 15, 2016 1 Comment

Hollywood Records have been picking up some class acts in America; CIRCLE OF SOUL being one of them. Their debut album Hands of Faith has...

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!