Revenge of Riff Raff

Preview: Rattlesnake Kiss

November 22, 2023 1 Comment Edit

Birmingham's hottest new rock act, RATTLESNAKE KISS, who have been the subject of a number of showcases recently, are reportedly on the ...

Live Review: Cumbria Rock '90, Derwent Park, Workington, 14th July, 1990

November 21, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Wolfsbane, Saxon, & Romeo's Daughter OH 'CUM' ALL YE FAITHFUL Why do British rock fans spend hours bemoaning Donington's...

Album Review, Manic Street Preachers, "Know Your Enemy"

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

After years of promising to fulfil their potential, Welsh rockers, the Manics finally came through with a great album in 1998's ...

Interview, Danny Bowes & Luke Morley, Thunder

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Bowes and Morley THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! Apart from the phenomenal global success of DEF LEPPARD, the UK has failed to come up with a mega succ...

Album Review: No Sweat, "No Sweat"

November 20, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Irish rockers NO SWEAT have delivered up a shrieking scorcher of a debut album. Having seen the band live, I was most anxious to get my hand...

Live Review: Manic Street Preachers, The Astoria, London, 20th February, 1992

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Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. For ages, MANIC STREET PREACHERS were shaping up to be nothing more than a SIGUE SIGUE ...

Interview: Angus Young, AC/DC

November 19, 2023 1 Comment Edit

AC/DC STILL DELIVERS NO-GIMMICK ROCK "If it ain't broke don't fix it," goes the old adage. And if it's a money-...

Album Review: Concrete Blonde, "Walking in London"

November 19, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Walking in London - not the easiest task, as anyone who's ever tried to scythe a pathway down Oxford Street through the living Hell of ...

Live Review: Loud, The Borderline, 14th February, 1992

November 18, 2023 Add Comment Edit

The Borderline has become, of late, a harbour for bands playing 'special' secret showcase gigs, only problem being that they are so ...

Interview: Vinnie Paul, Pantera

November 18, 2023 1 Comment Edit

VULGAR HOSTILITIES About a year or so ago, I came across an album by some band called PANTERA whilst working for a radio station here in Lon...

The Last PiL Reviews Anyone Will Ever Need to Read

November 16, 2023 Add Comment Edit

Here's Johnny (and a lot of other guys) Initially I was just gonna review the new PUBLIC IMAGE Ltd. album End of World , but I like you ...

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!