Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review, Manic Street Preachers, "Know Your Enemy"

November 26, 2017 Add Comment Edit

After years of promising to fulfil their potential, Welsh rockers, the Manics finally came through with a great album in 1998's ...

Album Review: "Achtung Baby" U2

November 06, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Another chapter of history is about to take shape as U2 serve up their first studio album since 87's Joshua Tree and 88's Rattl...

Maxi Single Review: Kishidan "One Night Carnival"

November 04, 2017 Add Comment Edit

I only ever watch the Japanese pop charts to see the videos of cute girl singers. But, just occasionally, among all the derivative po...

Album Review: "Crime Pays" Thunderhead

November 04, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Still very much woven into the tapestry that makes up a familiar pattern. Confused? Yo!...we are laying down the quilt of Hard Rock, s...

Revenge Recommends: "America" by Hugh Laurie

November 04, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Hugh Laurie is now best known for his straight acting role as the title character in the American medical drama series "House"...

Live Review: Phil Collins, Wembley Arena, 1990

November 02, 2017 Add Comment Edit

The Phil Collins tour machine comes to town for a record-breaking stint of god knows how many nights at first the Royal Albert Hall a...

VIDEO REVIEW: "EDGEPLAY - A FILM ABOUT THE RUNAWAYS"

September 21, 2017 Add Comment Edit

On my Facebook page, I humorously remarked about how Lars Von Trier's Melancholia is probably not the celebratory, good time film...

Album Review: Big Country "Buffalo Skinners"

July 26, 2017 Add Comment Edit

This album is like one of those Westerns where the homestead has been burned down, the womenfolk raped and murdered, and the cattle dri...

VIDEO REVIEW: QUEENSRYCHE, "BUILDING EMPIRES"

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10 years of growth encapsulated in one long-form video. 100 minutes in which to watch Queensryche grow from over made-up glam boys to &q...

Album Review: Y&T, "Ten"

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After perhaps a little too long in the dark Y&T have returned triumphant. The pitiful flicker of interest in 1987's Contagious, ...

INTERVIEW: BRET MICHAELS, POISON

June 08, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Joe Mackett unearths the truth behind the split, the recruitment of fretboard wizard Richie Kotzen, and the Native Tongue opus from an ex...

Interview: Mark Rankin, Gun

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Gunning for Glory The first time Gun and myself met was in an empty Town and Country Club, as the band were soundchecking prior ...

Interview: Denis D'Amour, Voivod

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FAR OUT From Quebec, Voivod, a band whose songs are inspired by the realms of Science Fiction. They're also a band who&...

Preview: Delorean

March 14, 2017 Add Comment Edit

The Argentinian writer and Nobel laureate Jorge Luis Borges once described the Basques as "a people who throughout history have don...

Live Review: The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium, London, 20th April 1992

February 17, 2017 Add Comment Edit

A chance for a load of stars to get all gushy over one of their kind who died of AIDs. Not the kind of gig you want to attend in pers...

Interview: Yngwie Malmsteen

February 09, 2017 Add Comment Edit

I DID IT MY WAY Swedish guitar maestro Yngwie Malmsteen tells Mark Crampton why he put the 'ice' on his recording deal...

Photo: The Day They Stole Abbey Road

February 09, 2017 Add Comment Edit

This is a picture showing the famous Beatles crossing in front of the Abbey Road studios in St. John's Wood, London. I used to live ...

Album Review: Little Barrie, "King of the Waves"

February 08, 2017 1 Comment Edit

Sometimes described as "the world's best rockabilly-soul-funk-surfer-mod-blues band," Little Barrie have hooked up with or...

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!