Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Zakk Wylde

August 30, 2021 Add Comment

Wylde Man Of Rock There are some axemen whose names will be carved in the face of solid rock for time immemorial, and Zakk Wylde wi...

Preview: Firewind 2011

August 24, 2021 Add Comment

Heavy metal groups are notorious for their complex genealogies, as members switch bands and moonlight for other outfits. Greek metal wa...

Live Review: Lady Gaga, Yokohama Arena, 17th April, 2010

August 24, 2021 Add Comment

Lady Gaga is having a sweet, intimate moment. Perched on a piano stool tinkling the ivories in her underwear, she expresses her emot...

Album Review: Spear of Destiny, "Sod's Law"

August 24, 2021 Add Comment

According to ancient legend, the Spear of Destiny was the actual spear used to pierce the side of Christ as he hung upon the cross. Sinc...

Interview: Jimmy Barnes

August 24, 2021 Add Comment

In the land of Oz, JIMMY BARNES is a national institution. The gutsy, Scots-born rock'n'roll singer, who made his name back in ...

Video Review: Ozzy Osbourne, "Don’t Blame Me"

August 21, 2021 Add Comment

Don't Blame Me covers most of the same period as the The Black Sabbath Story Vol. 1 video, including Blue Suede Shoes from '6...

Revenge Recommends: "Back With a Bang" by Skrewdriver

August 20, 2021 1 Comment

Skinhead Oi band Skrewdriver were mixed up with some pretty controversial street politics and "bad optics" in the 70s and 80s. &qu...

Interview: Ozzy Osbourne

August 02, 2021 Add Comment

Diary of a not-so-mad man "I'm not the Antichrist, I'm not the Iron Man, I'm not the kind of person you really think ...

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!