Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Carnival Art

March 29, 2016 Add Comment

Culture shock can be a funny thing. Take CARNIVAL ART, a subversive rock n' roll quartet, hailing from L.A. and according to thei...

Album Review, Rox, "Memoirs"

March 09, 2016 Add Comment

The year is 2009 and Amy Winehouse, after stumbling upon a winning formula of retro-cutesy blues n’ soul, sung by a London girl with a ...

Album Review: Airship, "Stuck in this Ocean"

March 07, 2016 Add Comment

The first few seconds of the first track on this album tell you everything you need to know about this young English band and, much more...

Album Review: Radiohead "Amnesiac"

March 06, 2016 Add Comment

Radiohead must think they signed a Faustian contract when they became corporate music fodder. Kid A , with its absence of easy-to-whis...

Live Review: River City People, The Marquee, 20th March, 1990

March 06, 2016 Add Comment

Here I am once more at the Marquee and I've come to see River City People mainly on the strength of a video on The Chart Show , and...

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!