Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: James, "Seven"

April 13, 2021 Add Comment Edit

Having resurrected their career with the anthem "Sit Down." Manchester's JAMES are now very much in the Big League, selling as...

Live Review: Eric Clapton, Royal Albert Hall, 21st February, 1992

April 12, 2021 Add Comment Edit

The Royal Albert Hall has become like a second home to ERIC CLAPTON. For God-knows-how-many years running, the month of February has see...

Revenge Recommends: "They Warned Us About People Like You" by The Karen

April 05, 2021 Add Comment Edit

Don't know who this guy is, but he does these brilliant improvisations based on a bit of video of someone ranting away, turning them int...

Preview: The Dark Side, Fuzztones, Thee Hypnotics, Goat

April 04, 2021 Add Comment Edit

THE DARK SIDE and the FUZZTONES are on the Situation Two label. Beggar's Banquet distribute their records and promote them. The Dark ...

Interview: Iggy Pop

April 01, 2021 Add Comment Edit

Iggy's inner artist The heroin addiction, the public self-flagellation and penis-baring, the rumors of bisexuality...these are on...

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!