Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

June 24, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Ignorance Ain't Bliss When I first got into this business, I thought "Great, the media! I'll be talking to dead peop...

Live Review: Dangerous, Oxford Apollo, 1991

June 24, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Went up to Oxford recently. No, not to visit some of my true blue, well-connected University chums...but to make a ‘dangerous’ trip up ...

Revenge Recommends: "Five Years" by" David Bowie

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In the early 1970s Bowie was at the height of his creative powers. Five Years was the first track on his 1972 concept album The Rise ...

Revenge Recommends: "Winter In The Blood" by The Waterboys

June 22, 2020 Add Comment Edit

This is a demo version of a song written for The Waterboys' classic 1985 album, This Is The Sea . In spite of its quality, the so...

Album Review: Steve Harris, "British Lion"

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Having already set the world alight with Metal Legends IRON MAIDEN, Steve Harris hardly needs an introduction. Recording a groundbreakin...

Interview, Lars Ulrich & James Hetfield, Metallica

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APPETITE for CONSTRUCTION following the release of their latest, self-titled, studio opus and their prestigious presence at this yea...

Audio Interview: John Lydon (Part One)

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Part one of a 2013 telephone interview with John Lydon. Topics include why he waited so long to release "This Is PiL," the...

Album Review: Tin Machine, "Tin Machine II"

June 11, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The Return of the thin White Duke! Yeh, Bowie’s back, albeit under the guise of TIN MACHINE. Tin Machine II is, as you'll have g...

Podcast: The Life and Death of David Bowie

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Colin Liddell joins Andy Nowicki and Ann Sterzinger to look at the death and life of the "Thin White Cracked Actor Ziggy Duke Sta...

Revenge Recommends: "Remember Me" by British Sea Power

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This song from British Sea Power's 2003 debut album The Decline of British Sea Power is ostensibly about the aging process, but ...

Album Review: Cirith Ungol – "Forever Black"

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Progressive melodic doom metal Gods Cirith Ungol are back with their first studio album in nearly 30 years! Woo! Woo! And Greg Lindstrom...

Tapescript Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5

June 04, 2020 Add Comment Edit

On the 12th of January 2008, I did a 20-minute 'phoner' with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. This was for an article I was wri...

Live Review: Gary Moore, Hammersmith Odeon, 11th May, 1990

June 04, 2020 Add Comment Edit

BLUES IS THE COLOUR It's very difficult to ascertain why Gary Moore has never gained true commercial recognition as a solo artis...

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!