Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Fish

February 28, 2016 Add Comment

FREEDOM FIGHTER FISH is a 'towering personality.' This charismatic Scotsman is never short of something interesting to say...

Album Review: Oasis, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"

February 27, 2016 Add Comment

There they are, melded together like the New York skyscrapers in the distance, the giants of Rock – Sir Paul McCartney, the Stones, Jimi...

Album Review: Tom Petty, "Into the Great Wide Open"

February 17, 2016 Add Comment

TOM PETTY has got to be one of the most resilient figures in rock n' roll, surviving such incidents as breaking his hand whilst in a...

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!