Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: The Red Dogs. The Marquee. 28th March, 1990

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Doggone It! Another night, another band and it's back into the sweaty confines of the Marquee to witness the appearance of those...

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

October 28, 2019 Add Comment Edit

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"

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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

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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!

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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 6 Comments Edit

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 Edit

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"

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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 Edit

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: Michael Padget, Bullet for My Valentine

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Innovation is a fine thing, but it has its drawbacks. For a rock band, trying to create a unique sound that has never been heard before...

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!