Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: The Quireboys, "Bitter Sweet and Twisted"

January 29, 2024 Add Comment

It's been a long time coming but Bitter Sweet shows a maturity on its predecessor. Main difference being that it's more personal an...

Interview: Kevn Kinney, Drivin N Cryin

January 29, 2024 Add Comment

Remember, there's no "I" in Kevn SMOKIN' BLUESMEN With their first official UK release Fly Me Courageous , DRIVIN N CRYIN ...

Video Review: New Model Army, "History (The Videos 85-90)"

January 24, 2024 Add Comment

This 14-track visual ditty chronicles the often turbulent career of NMA on EMI. Fronted by the sober man's Shane McGowan Bradford's ...

Interview: John Lydon, Public Image Ltd.

January 24, 2024 2 Comments

Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? You can take the punk out of London, but you can't take London out of the punk! ...

Live Review: Red Dogs, Buckley Tivoli, 1992

January 23, 2024 Add Comment

Much has been made by the press of the fact that the RED DOGS' sound is similar to that of tonight's headliners THE QUIREBOYS. What ...

Preview: End of Year Concerts

January 23, 2024 Add Comment

Music to get you in the festive spirit Music tastes differ from person to person, but less well known is that they also vary over time. The...

Album Review: The Black Crowes, "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion"

January 22, 2024 Add Comment

Apparently written and recorded in a mere eight days, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is the follow up to THE BLACK COWES' d...

Interview: Angus & Malcolm Young, AC/DC

January 22, 2024 Add Comment

ACiDiC YOUNGSTERS This year's "Monsters of Rock" at Donington Park sees AC/DC headlining for the third time. So Mike "J...

Album Review: Metallica, "Metallica"

January 21, 2024 Add Comment

Consternation ensued amongst the Metallipublic, Bob Rock had been named as the producer! His credits include in THE CULT, MOTLEY CRUE, and B...

Interview: Al Fritsch and Mark Mangold, Drive She Said

January 20, 2024 Add Comment

Al and Mark DRIVING IT HOME Music for Nations are putting an incredible amount of muscle into promoting DRIVE SHE SAID, so much so that thei...

Live Review: Little Angels, Sheffield Poly, 1990

January 19, 2024 Add Comment

DUDE LOOKS LIKE AN ANGEL The latest British band to clinch a record deal after years of hard work building a solid reputation. This tour wil...

Edwin's Totally Free Review of Almost Everything He Spent His Hard-Earned Money on in 2023

January 19, 2024 Add Comment

Couple of A.I. metal-bots also working for free I know this is my third “best albums of whatever year” list for Revenge of Riff Raff , but t...

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!