Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Tears For Fears, The Mann, Philadelphia, 21st June, 2022

June 24, 2022 Add Comment

Tears For Fears, putting the flat earthers to bed TEARS FOR FEARS does not get the same respect that THE HUMAN LEAGUE, NEW ORDER, and DE{ECH...

WHO KNEW? GEORGE MICHAEL WAS A MASSIVE JOY DIVISION FAN

June 16, 2022 Add Comment

Doom new wavers JOY DIVISION and upbeat funk-popster GEORGE MICHAEL are not two names you expect to see in the same bar. But it turns out, t...

Photo: Angus Young with a Couple of Italian "Fans"

June 10, 2022 Add Comment

A rare and never before published photo of Angus Young with a couple of Italian "fans" from the "private collection" of ...

Album Review: Depeche Mode "Exciter"

June 07, 2022 Add Comment

With a name like a dubious aphrodisiac jelly, the latest effort by the ever-boyish Depeche Mode, promises more of the 'pervy' ly...

Interview: Alan White, YES

June 03, 2022 Add Comment

All White on the Night For YES, 1991 has definitely been something of a milestone, not only for the band but also for the thousands of ...

Interview: Grant Richardson, Slide

June 02, 2022 Add Comment

Let him "slide" inside, ladies. SOLID ROCK SLIDE are a classy young band who play an accomplished brand of bluesy rock. The b...

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!