Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Dave Sharp, The Alarm

April 30, 2023 Add Comment

SHARP TUNING ALARM guitar man Dave Sharp is currently on the road with a backing band of Yankee Hillbillies and a set of songs more akin to ...

Live Review: The Quireboys, The Marquee, 12th October, 1989

April 30, 2023 Add Comment

WHISKY IN THE BAR A clear but cold October evening in London is a far cry from the sunshine and smog of Los Angeles, but the bar r...

Album Review: Pet Shop Boys "Release"

April 30, 2023 Add Comment

After the rush to write them off as has-beens occasioned by their last, dreadful album, it's good to see the PET SHOP BOYS haven...

VIDEO: HOW TO WRITE A CURE SONG

April 29, 2023 Add Comment

Robert Smith can even do it, so obviously you can too. How to write a Cure song in one minute by Desmond Doom.

Album Review: Richard Marx, "Rush Street"

April 29, 2023 Add Comment

This album is like a million pound car with every accessory you can imagine, bar one essential part – the engine. I’m telling ya, there is n...

Video Review: Guns N' Roses, "Makin' F@*!ING VIDEOS"

April 28, 2023 Add Comment

Part. 1 - Don't Cry Part. 2 - November Rain Given the complexities of the story lines, it's something of a relief to have thes...

Interview: Billy Duffy & Ian Astbury, The Cult

April 28, 2023 Add Comment

Mike Nicholls packs his bags and heads for northern Italy to catch THE CULT on their ceremonial stomp. Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury tell him ...

SCORPIONS RETROSPECTIVE: SOME STING, SOME TALE!

April 16, 2023 Add Comment

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS F**KING LONG. BRING SUPPLIES With their niche audience somewhere between classic rockers and traditional metalheads...

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!