Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Nymphs, Marquee, 1992

March 29, 2022 Add Comment

The natives are getting restless. Inger's late. Rumour has it that she can't find her favourite floppy stage hat. Truth is the k...

Interview: Michael Lee, The Cult

March 29, 2022 Add Comment

Straight from the Horse's Mouth Since splitting from THE LITTLE ANGELS, drummer Michael Lee has come in for an awful lot of flak ...

Album Review: Sepultura "Chaos AD"

March 29, 2022 Add Comment

The Boys from Brazil are well established in the thrash camp, but they're not afraid of experimenting. Even on their heaviest tracks...

Album Review: Britny Fox, "Bite Down Hard"

March 24, 2022 1 Comment

And here it is -- sure proof that ya don't have to dress like a Regency fop to make an impact. Gone are the frilly shirts, brocade ...

Live Review: Faith No More, Hammersmith Odeon, 27th April, 1990

March 24, 2022 Add Comment

It seems from the word go that this evening’s proceedings are very likely to get somewhat vigorous. This it does from the moment the ba...

Album Review: Scorpions, "Rock Believer"

March 20, 2022 Add Comment

If you even think of buying the standard version of the new SCORPIONS album, you’d best stop yourself before doing something foolish. I ...

Interview: Jeff Waters, Annihilator

March 19, 2022 Add Comment

LIGHTNING STRIKES "We're definitely known as a band which changes its line-ups, I guess too frequently," begins ANNIHILATOR ma...

Album Review: Voivod, "Synchro Anarchy"

March 17, 2022 Add Comment

It’s hard to say Synchro Anarchy is VOIVOD to a fault without making it sound like a criticism, but it does seem as though the only obje...

THE 20 GREATEST AMERICAN HARDCORE PUNK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

March 16, 2022 1 Comment

L.A. Weekly posted a list of the 20 greatest hardcore albums of all time which I thought was pretty terrible since it wasn’t clear wha...

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!