Revenge of Riff Raff

INTERVIEW: NODDY HOLDER & DAVE HILL, SLADE

December 12, 2023 Add Comment Edit

ANOTHER 'TRICK' IN THE WALL Twenty years after their first Number One, Slade are back, looking to new heights and a fresh bi...

Interview: David Glen Eisley & Earl Slick, Dirty White Boy

December 12, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Eisely and Slick COOOOL CATS... "I think we've played it down more than any of those bands. And to come to the defence of those ban...

Album Review: Coroner "Grin"

December 12, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Very heavy. Very hard, precise rhythms. Very gut-wrenching vocals, as if singer-bassist Ron Boyce is spewing out Satan. The lyrics, if you...

Interview: Simon Forrest & Frank Healy, Cerebral Fix

December 11, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Birmingham-based band CEREBRAL FIX are releasing their 3rd LP late October. Called Bastards , it's their second LP through Roadrunner. D...

Live Review: Joe Satriani, Leeds Colosseum, 24th May, 1990

December 11, 2023 Add Comment Edit

GOD WAS 'ERE The guitarist who has been nicknamed "God" by his followers and fans, due to his technical prowess and perfectnes...

Album Review: Crowded House, "Woodface"

December 10, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Hey, you lot at the back of the class, quit sneering! OK, so CROWDED HOUSE ain't mean dude rock n' rollers from Hell, they've go...

Interview: Michael Padget, Bullet for My Valentine

December 09, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Innovation is a fine thing, but it has its drawbacks. For a rock band, trying to create a unique sound that has never been heard before ...

Album Review: New England, "You Can't Keep Living This Way!"

December 09, 2023 Add Comment Edit

A riot of noise and guts is my first reaction on hearing NEW ENGLAND's debut album You Can't Keep Living This Way , on the independe...

Interview: Mick Jones, Foreigner

December 09, 2023 Add Comment Edit

After the release of Inside Information , Lou Gramm decided to follow his solo career, leaving FOREIGNER on ice for a while. So Mick Jones d...

Live Review: FM, Hammersmith Odeon, 3rd November, 1989

December 07, 2023 Add Comment Edit

FM are introduced by a Capital Radio DJ. It is very good of them to promote the gig, but it would be much better if they'd include some ...

Preview: Rattlesnake Kiss

November 22, 2023 1 Comment Edit

Birmingham's hottest new rock act, RATTLESNAKE KISS, who have been the subject of a number of showcases recently, are reportedly on the ...

Live Review: Cumbria Rock '90, Derwent Park, Workington, 14th July, 1990

November 21, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Wolfsbane, Saxon, & Romeo's Daughter OH 'CUM' ALL YE FAITHFUL Why do British rock fans spend hours bemoaning Donington's...

Album Review, Manic Street Preachers, "Know Your Enemy"

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

After years of promising to fulfil their potential, Welsh rockers, the Manics finally came through with a great album in 1998's ...

Interview, Danny Bowes & Luke Morley, Thunder

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Bowes and Morley THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! Apart from the phenomenal global success of DEF LEPPARD, the UK has failed to come up with a mega succ...

Album Review: No Sweat, "No Sweat"

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Irish rockers NO SWEAT have delivered up a shrieking scorcher of a debut album. Having seen the band live, I was most anxious to get my hand...

Live Review: Manic Street Preachers, The Astoria, London, 20th February, 1992

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. For ages, MANIC STREET PREACHERS were shaping up to be nothing more than a SIGUE SIGUE ...

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!