Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Steve Hogarth, Marillion

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Hog's Eye I first saw MARILLION back in 1983 at Birmingham Odeon. They were a special band: so different, so refreshing, so youthf...

Live Review: The Scream, Astoria, 6th December, 1991

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The "American Dream" promotions have been dragging bands kicking and screaming to our shores in order to play the Astoria Theatre ...

Album Review: Manic Street Preachers, "Generation Terrorists"

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With so much hype and press behind them in the last year, one immediately starts looking for faults. However, 18 tracks down the line and I ...

Album Review: Bootsauce, "The Brown Album"

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Montreal 's BOOTSAUCE present us with their debut album, so-called apparently, as the band believed that The Brown Album , musically, ca...

Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5

May 28, 2023 1 Comment Edit

Levine: "Who is this Liddell bloke and why is he phoning me up in the middle of the night to ask me dumb questions?" Maroon 5 get...

PREVIEW: DANGER

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In the Danger Zone Heavy melodic rockers DANGER are a five-piece outfit from Glasgow with a relatively strong following up and down the coun...

Album Review: Claytown Troupe, "Out There"

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When CLAYTOWN TROUPE left their old label Island after their debut Through the Veil took them from playing sweaty little clubs to headlining...

Interview: Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon

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TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC "I can't really pick what song I like the best or shit like that. It's not that simple to me, m...

Album Review: Love/Hate, "Wasted in America"

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This is excellence with a turbo engine. LOVE/HATE came in like a whirlwind and have continued to tear houses down and uproot trees. Wasted i...

Photos: Simple Minds, Cannock Chase, 2011

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Simple Minds had something to prove in 2011. They weren't just 80s has-beens who recorded the oh-so-ironic "Don't You Forget ...

Live Review: Monster Magnet, Koko's London, 25th November, 2011

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The atmosphere is positively jovial tonight; I keep bumping into smiling strangers saying 'hallo!' a lot. How lovely. This kind of ...

Live Review: The Black Crowes, The Marquee, 7th June, 1990

May 01, 2023 1 Comment Edit

THE CROWE HAS LANDED The Crowes swagger onstage looking like they'd feel more at home at a 70s music convention than anywhere else...

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!