Revenge of Riff Raff

BUDGE UP AND MAKE ROOM FOR BUDGIE

April 30, 2022 1 Comment

BUDGIE were this really great Welsh power trio that is considered one of the earliest heavy metal bands; except that unlike BLACK SABBATH, L...

Album Review: Noiseworks, "Love Versus Money"

April 28, 2022 Add Comment

Ever since I heard their powerful, classy debut album in 1988, I've always believed that world domination was just around the corner...

Live Review: AC/DC, Saitama Super Arena, 12th March, 2010

April 22, 2022 Add Comment

Hell Ain't a Bad Place to be and neither is Saitama tonight with the biggest rock band on the planet in town. Opened around ten ye...

Interview: Michael Schenker & Robin McAuley, MSG

April 02, 2022 Add Comment

More Than a Feeling Michael Schenker and Robin McAuley pull the plugs on their new album and dig deep into the heart of a successful...

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!