Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Richard Pinhas

March 30, 2024 1 Comment

It isn’t easy being a guitar prophet. When I reach RICHARD PINHAS, the storied French musician begs off the interview. He’s feeling rough, h...

Album Review: Kaiser Chiefs, "The Future is Medieval"

March 29, 2024 Add Comment

Bloody typical! KAISER CHIEFS best album is their poorest selling. 2011’s Future Is Medieval was the band’s fourth album. Behind the ...

Live Review: The Cult, Wembley Arena, 24th November, 1989

March 27, 2024 Add Comment

HEAVY METAL PLUNDER Nowadays, THE CULT are in the "big boys" league, and after their recent successful stint supporting AEROSMITH ...

Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins, "Gish"

March 10, 2024 2 Comments

The word "cosy" springs to mind with this album. I think of it as a rather dirty fuzzy carpet that I can walk around on in my bare...

Book Review: American Hair Metal: Can't Get Enough!

March 05, 2024 Add Comment

Trying not to spare the Blush(er) Steven Blush wrote the bible on American hardcore punk, titled, confusingly enough, American...

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!