Revenge of Riff Raff

UFO - "Too Hot to Handle - The Best of UFO"

October 28, 2019 Add Comment

To contemporary Metal fans, the name UFO may sit uncomfortably alongside such modern day luminaries as Guns N'Roses, Nirvana and M...

Album Review: Halford, "Halford IV: Made of Metal"

October 18, 2019 Add Comment

Skipping Halford III , essentially an astute novelty record designed to cash in on the perennial cash cow of Xmas, Halford IV: Made o...

Interview: Mike Peters, The Alarm

August 07, 2019 Add Comment

In July 2014, Colin Liddell did a "phoner" (or "skyper") with Mike Peters, the singer and main songwriter of 1980s...

"The Stooges" by The Stooges - 50 Years On!

August 07, 2019 Add Comment

The first Stooges album officially is half a century old (released, August 5th, 1969)! I remember buying it when it was thirty years old...

The Ten Greatest Scottish Moments in Rock History

July 17, 2019 8 Comments

As in most things, Scotland has punched well above its weight in the world of rock music, but because rock is an "international la...

Album Review: Jellyfish "Spilt Milk"

June 30, 2019 2 Comments

The colorful San Franciscans obviously don't give a flying fuck about artistic credibility. They write lush pop, rock songs usually ...

Album Review: Julian Cope, "Saint Julian"

June 30, 2019 Add Comment

For a few brief moments around the "Turn of the Eighties," THE TEARDROP EXPLODES seemed like an interesting and promising band...

Revenge Recommends: "Riff Raff" by AC/DC

June 20, 2019 Add Comment

The song that gave its name to Riff Raff the magazine, and through that to this blog. AC/DC at the Glasgow Apollo in 1978. As Bon Sc...

Interview: Lee Dorian, Cathedral

June 03, 2019 Add Comment

The doom metalers offer quake catharsis and carnivore guilt on their final tour All musicians coming to Japan want us to know how...

"My Angel is a Centerfold!!"

June 02, 2019 Add Comment

“Centerfold,” a Billboard number-one 1983 hit by J. Geils Band, is a unique pop anthem in which the speaker mourns the marring of a gir...

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!