Revenge of Riff Raff

Video Review: "The Elvis Files" (documentary)

July 30, 2023 Add Comment Edit

I smell of corpse here, or maybe a dead horse that's been whipped too long, or possibly a a headless chicken still running round the far...

SHAM PAIN SHITTY NOVA: OASIS'S WORST GIG EVER

July 28, 2023 Add Comment Edit

James Hargreaves details what happened and what was said at Oasis's legendary-for-all-the-wrong-reasons concert at Wembley Stadium on 22...

The Fly Reveals: What Happened to the Dude Who "Dry-Humped" Kate Bush in "Running Up the Hill" Video

July 25, 2023 Add Comment Edit

It was one of the most striking videos of the 80s and helped to sell the key song in what was a sort of comeback album for Kate Bush, Britai...

Live Review: Marillion, The Astoria, 7th November, 1989

July 24, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Steve Hogarth: smell the gloves. The Kings of London Town There was a time when no-one could have conceived a MARILLION without FISH. Ho...

Interview: Ronnie Sweetheart & Roger Ericson, The Throbs

July 23, 2023 Add Comment Edit

New-York based reprobates THE THROBS (being hailed by some as New York's answer to GUNS N' ROSES) recently seen kicking serious butt...

Preview: Muse, 2007

July 22, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Lyrically musing on what’s wrong with the world The great thing about being a teenager, or even a 'twentager,' is that you thin...

Interview: Stone Gossard, Pearl Jam/ Temple of the Dog

July 16, 2023 Add Comment Edit

DOG GONE IT! Those familiar with the sub-pop scene of Seattle in the late 80s or with SOUNDGARDEN who toured here last year to promote their...

Album Review: Summerlin, "You Can't Burn Out If You're Not On Fire"

July 16, 2023 Add Comment Edit

I blame the Yorkshire weather. Growing up, the five young lads in SUMMERLIN must have spent a lot of time indoors watching American TV impor...

ALBUM REVIEW: SKID ROW, "SLAVE TO THE GRIND"

July 16, 2023 Add Comment Edit

It's the return of the "rock sex god" and all-round bad boy, Sebastian Bach (or 'Bas' as he's affectionately known...

Live Review: Romeo's Daughter, Hammersmith Odeon, 3rd November, 1989

July 15, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Too much has already been written about the smouldering sensual beauty of the gorgeous Leigh Matty, so I won't go on anymore. Predictabl...

Interview: Merv Goldsworthy and Andy Barnett, FM

July 13, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Having already notched up a major comeback British tour with new six-stringer Andy Barnett, melodic rock messiahs FM kicked back into the gr...

Interview: Lee Dorian, Cathedral

July 11, 2023 Add Comment Edit

CATHEDRAL's latest album The Ethereal Mirror signals a watershed for the whole Doom Metal genre. Why? Because Columbia Records has s...

Album Review: Iron Maiden, "A Real Live One"

July 11, 2023 Add Comment Edit

The concept of releasing two separate albums documenting MAIDEN's live progress is baffling to me ,but this is how the Irons prefer it, ...

Album Review, Genesis, "We Can't Dance"

July 11, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Well, this has been the year of the big releases hasn't it? I mean VAN HALEN were busy F.U.C.K.ing around while METALLICA went black to ...

Interview: Gary Helsinger, Green Jelly

July 10, 2023 Add Comment Edit

"We suck," say GREEN JELLY. But nobody's this good at being this bad. Inspired lunacy. No sacred cow is left unru ffled, with ...

Album Review: Magnum, "The Spirit"

July 10, 2023 Add Comment Edit

With a recording career that dates back to 1978, it really is about time those MAGNUM chappies released a decent live album. And now that Th...

FINNISH METAL IS "BIG IN JAPAN"

July 03, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Finnish metallers Korpiklaani in action Hanoi Rocks, Children Of Bodom, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Negative, Amorphis, The 69 Eyes, Twili...

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!