Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Joe Elliot, Def Leppard

January 29, 2023 Add Comment

How ya doin,” booms the voice down the line from Los Angeles. The voice belongs to Joe Elliott, the singer of DEF LEPPARD, probably the larg...

Podcast: The Life and Death of David Bowie

January 10, 2023 2 Comments

Colin Liddell joins Andy Nowicki and Ann Sterzinger to look at the death and life of the "Thin White Cracked Actor Ziggy Duke Sta...

Revenge Recommends: "Brave New Soldiers" by The Pack

January 09, 2023 Add Comment

A brooding, squalling, and sometimes shrill classic goth-punk track from Kirk Brandon's first band, THE PACT. In addition to Brandon on...

EDWIN'S TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2022

January 07, 2023 Add Comment

I’ve come to terms with the fact that a top ten best albums of any year list made by independent content creators and bloggers pretty much c...

Album Review: The End "Gusto"

January 06, 2023 3 Comments

THE END are a London-based quintet, who have released their debut album, Gusto through Phil Manzanera's (of ROXY MUSIC fame) label, Mad...

Interview: Donnie Vie & Chip Z'Nuff, Enuff Z'Nuff

January 06, 2023 Add Comment

Joe Mackett finds out how ENUFF Z'NUFF have survived record label upheavals and an absent drummer saga to return better than ever wit...

Riff Raff 2.0 IX

January 05, 2023 Add Comment

The ninth issue of the second run of Riff Raff hit the news stands in April 1992 adorned with the blonde mullet of Joe Elliott on the ...

Live Review: Def Leppard, Don Valley Stadium, 6th June, 1993

January 01, 2023 Add Comment

I've always felt that Leppard use their lighting effects to excellently enhance their material, but, with the sun refusing to set u...

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!