Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Dare, "Blood From Stone"

July 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

In 1988 DARE scored a Top Ten hit in my personal long-playing chart with their debut offering, Out Of The Silence . With this new relea...

Interview: Dan Reed, Dan Reed Network

July 25, 2020 Add Comment Edit

THERE ARE NO RULES IN ROCK N' ROLL Funk n' roll gods, and personal faves, Dan Reed Network have been invited to support ...

Album Review: Bruce Dickenson, "Tattooed Millionaire"

July 25, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The lead singer of Iron Maiden breaks away from the fold with his first solo debut. Bruce has gathered around him a band of exceptional ...

Live Review: Mötley Crüe, Wembley Arena, 2nd November, 1989

July 20, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Mötley Crüe are back 'kickin' ass' in the UK! Following the release of their long-awaited album, entitled Dr. Feelgood, the...

Revenge Recommends: "Dig Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock and Friends

July 16, 2020 Add Comment Edit

This song started life in 1962 as a track on Takin’ Off , the debut album of jazz piano legend Herbie Hancock. The lyrics, co-written ...

Interview: Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers

July 16, 2020 Add Comment Edit

SUGAR ME SWEET AFTER MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND BAD ORGANISATION, MARK BLAKE FINALLY GOT THE CHANCE TO FIND OUT, THAT THERE IS DEPTH ...

Album Review: Black Sun Ωmega, "The Sum Of All Fears"

July 15, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Thrash is the Western equivalent of pachinko , which, for those who don't know it, is a Japanese pastime where you sit on a tiny sto...

Interview: Mike Bordin, Faith No More

July 14, 2020 Add Comment Edit

MARK LIDDELL TRACKS DOWN FAITH NO MORE DRUMMER MIKE BORDIN AND FINDS OUT WHY ANGEL DUST IS EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING! Somet...

Riff Raff I

July 14, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The first issue of Riff Raff hit the newstands in December 1989, with Alice Cooper on the cover. Among the articles were Simon Ro...

Album Review: Dire Straits, "On Every Street"

July 13, 2020 Add Comment Edit

This album has been has eagerly awaited (and delayed as many times) as the new GUNS N’ ROSES opus, and comes not only on the back of a h...

Live Review: Motorhead, Leeds University, 9th March, 1990

July 13, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Photo: John Mather Motorhead are are firmly established as UK Legends, and have been for many years. The pioneers of British thrash, ...

Interview: Justin & Mark, Osmium

July 13, 2020 Add Comment Edit

OSMIUM? Hmmm... the name could suggest, perhaps, a bunch of hippies with a psychedelic fixation. Well, it ain't necessarily so. OSM...

Live Review: Carl Barat, Studio Coast, Tokyo, 26 November, 2010

July 12, 2020 Add Comment Edit

When I spoke to Carl Barat a few weeks back, he talked about, "stepping away from the big guitars" to create the music for h...

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!