Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: David Byrne, "Look Into the Eyeball"

February 19, 2022 Add Comment

In an article in the New York Times , David Byrne once said that he hated World Music, surprising for someone whose own music incorpo...

Album Review: Jethro Tull, "The Zealot Gene"

February 17, 2022 Add Comment

At first I was gonna say, “Haha, you stupid rubes! The Zealot Gene is just an Ian Anderson solo album! This emperor has no codpiece!” T...

Interview: David Gleeson, Screaming Jets

February 17, 2022 Add Comment

Fuck Rock N' Roll In comparison to its predecessor SCREAMING JETS' new LP Tear on Thought sports a much punkier attitude. It...

ONE FINAL LOOK AT THE ALBUMS OF 2021: FINAL FRONTIER EDITION

February 09, 2022 Add Comment

While we’re already in the second month of 2022, I realized that I either forgot or didn’t even know that a couple of bands whose albums I t...

The Fly Column: Are the Cult the Baddies?

February 08, 2022 Add Comment

Whatever happened to Ian Astbury out of the Cult? The Fly Column has it from good authority that a few years ago the shamanistic frontman of...

Preview: Children of Bodom

February 02, 2022 Add Comment

Death metal band with some unlikely covers Taking their moniker from the lakeside location of an infamous murder in their native Finl...

Live Review: David Bowie, Docklands Arena, 27th March, 1990

February 01, 2022 Add Comment

The Vision Thing Whether you like David Bowie or not you can't fault his irresistible appeal and charismatic charm. Many had trav...

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!