Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Big Country "Buffalo Skinners"

July 26, 2017 Add Comment

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"

July 26, 2017 Add Comment

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 ...

Album Review: Y&T, "Ten"

July 24, 2017 Add Comment

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

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!