Riff Raff 2.0 IX

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 cover. The price was £1.75 (around a week's wages at the tme). It had 64 thrill-packed pages, including interviews with Mr Elliot, of course, along with transcribed chats with Jan Cyrka, Doug Pinnick (King's Cross), Woody Weatherman, (Corrosion of Conformity), Mark Rankin (Gun). Christian Riou (Clayton Troupe), Kee Marcello (Europe), Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Gary Brooker (Procul Harum), and Steve Howe (Yes), among others.

Editorial was by Joe Mackett, Peter Grant, Mike Harris, Lyn Guy, Marion Garden, Mark Liddell, Nick Douglas, Alan McCrorie, Billy Kulke, Chris Collingwood, and a few others,

with pictures by Paul Smith, Dave Clark, and Phil Kehoe.

Also shitloads of album reviews and live reviews of Eric Clapton, Manic Street Preachers, Loud, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gun, etc.

Colin Liddell
Revenge of Riff Raff
5th January, 2023

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!