Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Various, "Peace Not War Japan"

May 31, 2022 Add Comment

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE (OR AT LEAST BUY THE CD) Nowadays, we live in a time of constant crises and conflict. As soon as one flashpoint in th...

Live Review: U2, The Point, Dublin, Dec.30, 1989

May 31, 2022 Add Comment

A SORT OF HOMECOMING Dublin’s most famous sons are back in Dublin after an intense and exhausting Love Town tour of Australia, Japan and E...

Fly Column: Belsen (((WASN'T))) a Gas!

May 27, 2022 Add Comment

Have you checked your punk pronouns recently, bigot?

Live Review: Diamond Head, Milton Keynes Bowl, 5th June, 1993

May 27, 2022 1 Comment

The appearance of DIAMOND HEAD was treated with a certain mixture of respect and curiosity by the still slumbering crowd, many of whom, if ...

Interview: Ozzy Osbourne

May 18, 2022 Add Comment

FINAL ALBUM! FINAL TOUR! THAT'S WHAT WE’RE BEING TOLD. HOWEVER, OZZY OSBOURNE IS ADAMANT THAT HE’LL CONTINUE TO MAKE MUSIC, AS MARK CRAM...

Album Review: Metal Massacre (40th ANNIVERSARY)

May 17, 2022 Add Comment

It’s surreal to think that even the world’s biggest heavy metal band was also once just a group of teenage goofballs copying their favori...

Album Review: Widespread Panic, "Widespread Panic"

May 06, 2022 Add Comment

With their roots very much in the guitar-based Rock N Roll of the late Sixties/ early Seventies, Georgia's WIDESPREAD PANIC have crea...

Interview: Maynard James Keenan,Tool

May 06, 2022 Add Comment

Tool frontman: 'I haven't smashed up one hotel room' Maynard James Keenan, singer and lyricist with the U.S. heavy rock ban...

DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF RIFF RAFF (NOVEMBER 1991)

May 06, 2022 Add Comment

Click on the cover image to download a PDF file of the magazine!

Album Review: Slayer, "Decade of Aggression"

May 05, 2022 Add Comment

Normally I don't like live albums, they tend to let the band down soundwise, and after listening to them a few times, they go to the ...

Tapescript Interview: The Fly Versus Sugar (Could this be the Best/Worst Interview of All Time?)

May 03, 2022 Add Comment

Malcom Travis, Bob Mould, David Barbe Back in 1992, while visiting the offices of Riff Raff , THE FLY was suddenly asked if it/he coul...

Photo: Lemmy, 1991, Japan

May 01, 2022 Add Comment

Lemmy at Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, 10th June, 1991. Photo: Fred Varcoe

Album Review: John Mellencamp, "Whenever We Wanted"

May 01, 2022 Add Comment

Changing your surname more often than Elizabeth Taylor isn't exactly a credible rock and roll move. JOHN COUGAR, latterly JOHN COUGAR...

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!