Revenge of Riff Raff

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

February 17, 2017 Add Comment

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...

Photo: The Day They Stole Abbey Road

February 09, 2017 Add Comment

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

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

Album Review: Drivin' n' Cryin,' "Smoke"

February 08, 2017 Add Comment

For a band previously labelled as rootsy rockers, this last effort doesn't half sound like AC/DC as in She Doesn't Wanna Go , 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!