Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree

July 30, 2021 Add Comment

The main dichotomy in popular music has always been between simplification and elaboration. In the 1950s, the popularity of rock represent...

Live Review: Crowded House, Wembley Arena, 24th June, 1992

July 17, 2021 Add Comment

You know the feeling – great gig, lovely songs, all the notes in the right place, the acoustics sorted out, but something just doesn't...

Album Review: Alcatrazz, "No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll"

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Alcatrazz are like the YARDBIRDS of the 80s, giving a start to YNGWIE and STEVE VAI, with GRAHAM BONNET on vocals. I've always found it ...

Preview: Gary Moore 2010

July 16, 2021 Add Comment

There's something mean and misshapen about Gary Moore, both physically and musically. With a scarred face (apparently the result o...

Photo: Rowan Robertson, Dio

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Photo: Paul Smith Riff Raff July, 1990

Interview: Ronnie James Dio

July 16, 2021 Add Comment

NEVER SAY DIE Ronnie James Dio is a legendary figurehead in the world of rock music, He has worked with some of the heaviest bands in the b...

Live Review: The Rolling Stones, Tokyo Dome, 20th February, 1990

July 04, 2021 Add Comment

ROLL ON Everyone knows the lyric: "I know it's only Rock 'n' Roll but I like it..." So, what is Rock n' Ro...

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!