Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Mark Morris & Ian McKean, Balaam and the Angel

July 20, 2024 Add Comment

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES Having rarely appreciated the finer points of Gothic "jangly guitar" bands, I never bothered to take much ...

Live Review: Gary Moore, Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, 12th May, 1989

July 20, 2024 Add Comment

MORE OF MOORE CAN ONLY BE BETTER Somebody's judgment must be wrong. Last year, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN played the Budokan; last week GARY...

Interview: Jack Morer & Steve Augeri, Tall Stories

July 19, 2024 Add Comment

Once in a while an album is released which comes along with none of the pomp and circumstance traditionally associated to quality product. I...

Interview: Bill Zebub (plus free "Black Metal" DVD giveaway!!!)

July 04, 2024 Add Comment

Man, it took me a long time to transcribe this interview, but, thankfully, Bill Zebub didn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s so damn humble that,...

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!