Revenge of Riff Raff

Live Review: Electric Boys, The Borderline, April 1992

August 26, 2024 Add Comment

A couple of years ago Phonogram were touting the ELECTRIC BOYS as their next big thing. Then the band had a few problems, the DAN REED NETWO...

Album Review: YES, "Fly From Here"

August 09, 2024 Add Comment

Virtuoso prog-rock legends YES are back with their first studio offering in 10 years. Produced by former frontman Trevor Horn, Fly From ...

Interview: Paul Di'Anno & Steve Hopgood, Killers

August 09, 2024 1 Comment

The raw edge of British rock returns as KILLERS are released to wreak havoc and blow a few eardrums. Peter Grant investigates... KILLING FOR...

Album Review: Anthrax, "The Sound of White Noise"

August 08, 2024 Add Comment

"This is a journey into sound" runs the intro into ANTHRAX's latest album, and the statement doesn't lie. With ex-ARMOURE...

Album Review: Raging Slab, "Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert"

August 03, 2024 Add Comment

DMBC is a delicious strip of Southern fried boogie you're likely to hear either side of LYNYRD SKYNYRD. The tunes on offer are meticulou...

Interview: Steve Howe, YES

August 03, 2024 Add Comment

CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE Veteran YES guitarist Steve Howe explains the emotional expression behind his playing with veteran Prog Rocker Mike Har...

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!