Revenge of Riff Raff

Book Review: "Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper" - Alice Cooper and Steve Gaines

March 19, 2021 Add Comment Edit

As a hardcore Alice Cooper fan, I was first surprised to learn that Alice Cooper even wrote – or, rather, dictated – a memoir back in 19...

Album Review: Teardrop Explodes "Kilimanjaro"

March 15, 2021 Add Comment Edit

I've had this nestling, relatively unlistened to, in my CD collection for some time. It's the big debut album by THE TEARDROP EX...

Album Review: GG Allin, "Always Was, Is, and Always Shall Be"

March 14, 2021 Add Comment Edit

Anyone vaguely familiar with GG Allin probably only knows him as that disgusting punk rocker who takes a shit onstage. And, I suppose, t...

Live Review: Bruce Dickinson, The Hummingbird, Birmingham, June 26th, 1990

March 08, 2021 1 Comment Edit

This gig was almost a 'maiden over,' to use a cricketing term. The audience made it clear they were there for Bruce Dickinson, a...

Interview: Richard Archer, Hard-Fi

March 07, 2021 Add Comment Edit

British rock band Hard-Fi Lives Up to the Hype Obsessed with the need for short-term profits rather than long-term gains, the British...

The Secret History of Suggs From Madness

March 07, 2021 4 Comments Edit

Suggs (on the right) in an MA jacket Suggs is a pretty big name in the UK, and his band MADNESS is regarded as one of the defining groups of...

Video: The Smiths Debut Five New Songs at the Irvine Magnum in 1985

March 07, 2021 Add Comment Edit

On September 22, 1985, The Smiths played the Magnum Leisure Centre in Ayrshire, Scotland, a rather out-of-the-way venue. With the pressure o...

Album Review: Accept, "Too Mean to Die"

March 05, 2021 Add Comment Edit

This here new ACCEPT album, Too Mean to Die , is literally nearly exactly what I expected with almost no surprises whatsoever. It’s the aura...

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!