Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: The Nymphs, "The Nymphs"

September 02, 2023 Add Comment Edit

THE NYMPHS, no not some hormone-charged, pheromone-soaked girlie band, but a sonic-charged American quintet fronted by a young female ...

Interview: Alice Cooper

September 02, 2023 Add Comment Edit

You'd think dragging ALICE COOPER out of rehearsals in order to obtain an interview would be a dodgy move, but not so for Joe "Kill...

Album Review: Lisa Dominique, "Gypsy Ryder"

September 02, 2023 Add Comment Edit

LISA DOMINIQUE, to the uninitiated the name conjures to mind a lady killer figure that has spawned a media surge in many a metal magazine. R...

Album Review: Overkill, "Horrorscope"

September 01, 2023 Add Comment Edit

After a long hard haul, OVERKILL are back, but not quite as you will remember them. Gone are the days when they had Bobby Gustafson pouring ...

Interview: Paul Gilbert & Eric Martin, Mr. Big

September 01, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Melodic rockers MR BIG are back in town with their third album Bump Ahead. Joe Mackett tracks them down. Pat Torpey, Billy Sheehan, Paul Gi...

Album Review: Meatloaf, "Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell"

September 01, 2023 Add Comment Edit

The skills of Messrs Loaf and Steinman are a marriage made in heaven. The prologue, all roaring Harleys, leads into "I'd Do Anythin...

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!