Revenge of Riff Raff

The Fly Column: Fly/ Nirvana T-Shirt Shock!

December 31, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Following their stunning set on the MTV Awards, where they came off second best in a dramatic punch up with their own equipment, NIRVANA...

Interview: Kieran Webster "The View"

December 28, 2016 Add Comment Edit

You're 19 or 20 and already people expect you to be a role model. This is the situation faced by members of one of the UK's ho...

Interview: Mark "the Shark" Shelton and Bryan "Hellroadie" Patrick, Manilla Road

December 27, 2016 Add Comment Edit

First of all, Marshabaloosh is the evil deity that makes you stub your toe, step on a nail, makes your wife divorce you, starts worl...

Album Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd "The Last Rebel"

December 27, 2016 Add Comment Edit

To some Lynyrd Skynyrd are rollicking country rock with 'real' songs and anthems about, and for, ordinary everyday folk. For oth...

Interview: Stuart Adamson, Big Country

December 25, 2016 Add Comment Edit

DIE HARD It's been a long time coming but it seems that Big Country have finally delivered an album that compares favoura...

Preview: Soul Asylum

December 24, 2016 Add Comment Edit

NONE BUT THE GRAVE Soul Asylum are best known for 1988's Hang Time LP, a bristling collection of guitar-driven pop songs. Now b...

Album Review: Dread Zeppelin, "Un-Led-Ed"

December 24, 2016 Add Comment Edit

A Led Zep covers album? Hmmm... but there's a little bit more to it than that. Un-Led-Ed is a bizarre collision of Led Zep, Elvis...

Album Review: Poison "Native Tongue"

December 23, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Native Tongue is a progression of sorts, with new guitarist Richie Kotzen contributing a welcome thrust of gritty dynamics to their sou...

Revenge Recommends: "Electric Man" by Rival Sons

December 23, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Great bluesy rock. Don't worry about the rather meaningless lyrics - just some guy getting his "thang" on - but dig that...

Interview: Grant Richardson, Slide

December 22, 2016 Add Comment Edit

SOLID ROCK Slide are a classy young band who play an accomplished brand of bluesy rock. The band are from Glasgow and are beginnin...

Lady GAGA Without Her 'Slap' Might Make You GAG

December 22, 2016 Add Comment Edit

On stage she is a chameleon-like icon of potent and powerful feminine imagery, channeling the voguish and decadent sexual aesthetic of t...

Album Review: Skyclad "Jonah's Ark"

December 21, 2016 Add Comment Edit

If you're over twelve, you've probably grown out of this and are investing your money on more grown-up things like acne cream. W...

Live Review: Midnight Oil, Wembley Arena, 1990

December 20, 2016 Add Comment Edit

OIL RIGHT NOW Midnight Oil are the antithesis of the stereotypical image of Australians. They're not the Crocodile Dundee ty...

Album Review: Fishbone "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe"

December 20, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Los Angeles' Fishbone are one of the wildest, most energetic bands I've ever seen live. A shame then that their sprawling array...

Live Review: Cock Sparrer at Chicago Double Door, 2nd December, 2016

December 04, 2016 2 Comments Edit

Acclaimed novelist Ann Sterzinger reviews one of Cocksparrer's Chicago gigs for Revenge . Rock fans will definitely enjoy her masterp...

Japanese TV: Interview with Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins

December 04, 2016 Add Comment Edit

Pull quote: "We come from some sort of an alternative world and we just don't believe in doing things normally..." Bil...

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!