Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Tom Araya, Dave Lombardo, & Kerry King, Slayer

February 28, 2024 Add Comment Edit

US thrash titans SLAYER believe that metal is a winner with the kids. That's why they're coming back with a cranium-crunching double...

TOKYO GIG PICKS (MARCH 2024)

February 27, 2024 2 Comments Edit

The Melvins Nowadays the Japanese and Western music scenes have pretty much gone their separate ways, but, as recent shows by Taylor Swift s...

Album Review: Muse, "Origin of Symmetry"

February 26, 2024 Add Comment Edit

By 2001 when MUSE released this their second album, the music press had been through at least ten years of drastic downsizing. This meant th...

Album Review: Trey Gunn Band, "The Joy of Molybdenum"

February 23, 2024 Add Comment Edit

With their latest release, The ConstruKction of Light , prog rock monster KING CRIMSON beat themselves with their own weapons. After promisi...

Interview: Lisa Dominique

February 19, 2024 Add Comment Edit

TIT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL LISA DOMINIQUE's temper is truly an ugly sight to behold Sniffing loudly, she turns on a petulant h...

Live Review: Fish, Hammersmith Odeon, 1st April, 1990

February 12, 2024 Add Comment Edit

incommuni-commando? NO FOOLS HERE... The scene was set. Battle-torn London on a Sunday evening, April Fool's Day to be more exact. The p...

Album Review: The Mission, "Carved in Sand"

February 12, 2024 Add Comment Edit

WAYNE'S WORLD I’ve always lumped THE MISSION in with THE CULT. Both have religious overtones, both have a hard-rocking, mystical, goth-t...

Interview: Hotei

February 12, 2024 Add Comment Edit

ROCK ICON WON'T REST ON JAPANESE SUCCESS It's the morning after his long anticipated New York gig, and Tomoyasu Hotei seems relaxed ...

Live Review: Mr. Big, Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, 20th June, 1991

February 12, 2024 Add Comment Edit

"If you're a red hot firecracker I will light your fuse." ...and a fuse was lit by MR. BIG at their recent Forum concert. Eric...

Preview: Monsters of Rock '91

February 12, 2024 Add Comment Edit

HELL AIN'T A BAD PLACE TO BE This year's monsters of rock festival, taking place at Donington Park, has become somewhat of a controv...

Interview: Trevor Church, Haunt

February 07, 2024 Add Comment Edit

I interviewed guitarist/singer/songwriter Trevor Church of the superb HAUNT, who, I suppose, are part of this whole "New Wave of Tradit...

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!