Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: Drive She Said, "Drivin' Wheel"

March 26, 2023 1 Comment

Imaginatively entitled Drivin' Wheel , this is the American AOR band DRIVE SHE SAID's debut album. As I figured it was drivin...

VIDEO: HOW TO WRITE A SISTERS OF MERCY SONG

March 26, 2023 Add Comment

Andrew Eldritch could do it, so can you. How to write a Sisters Of Mercy song in one minute by Desmond Doom.

RIFF RAFF DEEP LORE: ONE-BAND FANZINES AND "POP FACTORY"

March 19, 2023 1 Comment

For fuck's sake, I am probably the wrong person to document this shit, but I don't see anyone else making the effort -- or likely to...

Interview: Monty Colvin, Dane Sonnier, Alan Doss & Ben Huggins, Galactic Cowboys

March 12, 2023 Add Comment

Space Invaders An intriguing band are the GALACTIC COWBOYS. They have recently released their self-titled debut album: a potent mix ...

Album Review: Chie Ayado "Love"

March 12, 2023 Add Comment

Despite controlling a vast music market, the Japanese music industry craves one thing more than any amount of number one singles and alb...

Interview: Jeff Healey

March 11, 2023 Add Comment

Blind Man's Bluff? Mark Liddell finds Jeff Healy in outspoken mode as the highly respected guitarist trashes the myth makers . L...

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!