Revenge of Riff Raff

Photo: The Kill Thrill Kult

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The Kill Thrill Kult meet Riff Raff columnist the Fly (3rd from left) sometime in 1993. Photo: Record company flunky

Album Review: Sofie Livebrant, "From Here to Here"

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The cover art strongly hints at Swedish songbird Sofie Livebrant’s musical talent. Looking like death warmed up (and in dungarees!), she’s o...

Revenge Recommends: "Wish You Were Here" by Lia Ices

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Pretty much a perfect cover version of Pink Floyd's classic song. The American singer's "bruised" and ethereal voice is a ...

Photos: Little Barrie in Tokyo, 2010

February 10, 2023 Add Comment

Little Barrie at Daikanyama Unit, Tokyo, 10th December, 2010. Photos by Colin Liddell. R ead the gig review here .

Interview: Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden

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ALL THIS AND BRAINS TOO! Swashbuckling swanker Bruce Dickinson is something of a workaholic to say the least! Having taken a much needed b...

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!