Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne

July 31, 2022 Add Comment

Collingwood (far right) Offbeat band a hit with white-collar songs American popular music is notoriously restrictive in its choice o...

Bono on Desert Island Discs

July 12, 2022 Add Comment

On 1st July 2022 U2 frontman Bono made his appearance on the BBC's long-running Desert Island Discs show to pick his 8 records to be str...

Interview: Mark Plunkett, Little Angels

July 11, 2022 1 Comment

ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD Scarborough's LITTLE ANGELS have had to grow up in public almost as fast as the unsurpassable BE...

Metallica Destroy Donington

July 02, 2022 Add Comment

To play or not to play? That was the question. METALLICA said YES! Donington went ahead and was heavier than ever. We bring you an upda...

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!