Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: U2, "No Line on the Horizon"

September 28, 2022 Add Comment

Bono (on the left), shortly after his demotion to lance corporal. 2009's No Line on the Horizon represents a minor return to...

Preview: Japandroids, Japan, 2013

September 20, 2022 Add Comment

With a name like Japandroids, it must only have been a matter of time for the up-and-coming indie rockers to gravitate towards these sh...

Live Review: Scorpions, Pine Knob Music Theater, Michigan, 30th August, 2022

September 05, 2022 Add Comment

Since I work at night, I had to make up an excuse and play hooky to check out the SCORPIONS, who were initially going to be playing with WHI...

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!