Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: "Point of Entry," Judas Priest

August 18, 2020 Add Comment

Priest's 1981 album Point of Entry , their seventh, is usually viewed as a dip in quality after British Steel (1980) . I concur. Yo...

Live Review: Dare, The Astoria 18th October, 1989

August 07, 2020 Add Comment

Mancunian act Dare are pretty new on the live circuit. Up to date they have headlined numerous club shows following an extremely succe...

KISS Immortalised in Japanese Art (Not by Their Music, LOL)

August 05, 2020 Add Comment

In this episode of the Kong Show, a special treat for KISS fans. Elizabeth Hilderbrand talks to Kamasami Kong about the Ukiyo-e Proje...

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!