Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Jason Bieler & Matt Kramer, Saigon Kick

September 28, 2021 Add Comment

KICKING THE HABIT New Atlantic Records' signings SAIGON KICK, who you may have seen recently opening up for EXTREME on their UK tour, ar...

KISHIDAN DRUMMER'S "THIRD REICH" HAIRCUT

September 27, 2021 Add Comment

Blink and you might miss it but this clip of top Japanese rock band Kishidan shows the drummer (白鳥雪之丞, Shiratori Yukinojō, Yukki) with an ...

Revenge Recommends: "Premonition" by Simple Minds

September 16, 2021 Add Comment

1979 was a pivotal year in British history. Margaret Thatcher had just been voted in over a fractured Labour Party and the deindustrailiz...

Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters Step Out of the Shadow

September 10, 2021 1 Comment

NOTE: This was a rehash article, using quotes from articles published elsewhere Calling Out to the World Stepping out from under the large ...

Come As You Are

September 07, 2021 Add Comment

Cobain, Nihilism, Nirvana In his amusingly-titled article Smells Like Dead Junkie , Jim Goad, an iconoclastic icon if ever there was one, t...

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!