Revenge of Riff Raff

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December 12, 2018 Add Comment

Bands like U2 and Coldplay are among the biggest on the planet. Denmark's Grand Avenue, founded in 2001, tick all the same boxes, b...

INTERVIEW: BRUCE DICKINSON, IRON MAIDEN

December 11, 2018 Add Comment

Iron Maiden digs into '80s hits for 'legendary' tour Bruce Dickinson, front man for heavy metal legends Iron Maiden, i...

ALBUM REVIEW: ERIC CLAPTON, "24 NIGHTS"

December 11, 2018 Add Comment

Eric Clapton has come through some stormy seas, but he never fails to reach in and touch something in most people. The whole spectrum is...

ALBUM REVIEW: THE SOUP DRAGONS "HOTWIRED"

August 19, 2018 Add Comment

Every big, successful band generates numerous shadow and clone bands. Sometimes one of the clones gets quite big and may even have a ret...

Album Review: Hellwell, "Beyond the Boundaries of Sin"

May 22, 2018 Add Comment

"All's well that ends Hellwell," you might well say, in the process ripping the quote from the bleeding throat of William ...

Album Review: Mumford and Sons, "Sigh No More"

May 22, 2018 Add Comment

This is one CD that I've had in my collection ever since it was given to me by a promoter back in 2010. I listened to it a bit and r...

Video: Bad News & More Bad News

March 21, 2018 Add Comment

This Is Spinal Tap was phenomenal because it not only captured the essence of British Heavy Metal band but also its detail. A remarkab...

VIDEO REVIEW: WHITE LION, "ESCAPE FROM BROOKLYN"

March 21, 2018 Add Comment

And escape they did, to make our world a better place with really girly songs about children crying and all the shite that smacks of ...

INTERVIEW: MAX VANDERWOLF & TB QUAGMIRE, NAKED SUN

March 19, 2018 Add Comment

Usually flamboyant, musically extravagant — that in a nutshell is New York quintet NAKED SUN, who have their debut self-titled album o...

Interview: Carl Barat

March 16, 2018 Add Comment

In 2010, at the height of my career as a music journalist, round about the time I was turning down an offer to interview Adele becaus...

Album Review: Simple Minds, "Big Music"

March 16, 2018 Add Comment

Ever since their fledgling days in late 70's Glasgow, Simple Minds have always had a restless quality at the heart of their music. ...

TOP 50 BEST-SELLING MUSICIANS IN USA (BY ALBUM SALES)

March 16, 2018 Add Comment

Here are the top-50 best selling artists in the USA by albums sold. British artists are in bold . 1. The Beatles ....178 million un...

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!