Revenge of Riff Raff

EDWIN'S "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER" TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2021

January 28, 2022 2 Comments

January's almost over but it's not too late to take a long, lingering, riff-laden look back at 2021. Here, then, better late than ne...

Live Review: Faith No More, Sheffield Octagon, 27th January, 1990

January 27, 2022 3 Comments

What can you say about a band whose guitarist falls over during the first song? Drunk? Crazy? Maybe. But that's exactly what he did...

Riff Raff IV

January 27, 2022 Add Comment

The fourth issue of Riff Raff hit the news stands in April 1990 with some guy with a guitar on the cover, selling for the princely sum o...

INTERVIEW: PAUL 'EVO' EVANS, WARFARE

January 26, 2022 Add Comment

I had the joy of talking to Paul “Evo” Evans, drummer and singer for underground NWOBHM metal favorites WARFARE. And, while I think the inte...

Interview: Stump Monroe, The Almighty

January 22, 2022 Add Comment

Power Tourin' There's no doubt that the ferocity of their third album Powertrippin' has taken THE ALMIGHTY to a new leve...

PREVIEW: ANGRY ANDERSON 1991

January 19, 2022 Add Comment

ANGRY ANDERSON's been rather silent for some time, since Kyle's and Jase took a stroll up the aisle. Bit of a waste of time writing ...

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!