The Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Wayne Hussey, The Mission

October 29, 2014 Add Comment Edit

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED "I am a bit of an old fogey," Wayne Hussey tells me proudly. Surely, Wayne, you cannot be ser...

Revenge Recommends: "Infected" by The THE

October 18, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Back in 1986, when The THE released their second album Infected , they little realized that the deadly Ebola virus would be sweeping t...

Interview: Eddi Reader

October 18, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Ex-pop star finds bliss in Scottish folk Sometimes you have to go away to come home. That seems to have been the case for Eddi Reader...

Album Review: U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"

October 14, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Radiohead get round their songwriting poverty by developing initially startling soundscapes that simply dont belong on a rock record....

Album Review: Edwyn Collins, "Losing Sleep"

October 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Back in the day – the day being the early 1980s – Edwyn Collins and his then band Orange Juice practically invented the indie guitar po...

New Release: "Play Ball" by AC/DC

October 08, 2014 Add Comment Edit

The first track available from AC/DC forthcoming album Rock Or Bust , due out this December, the first album without Malcolm Young....

Interview: David Gleeson, Screaming Jets

October 04, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Fuck Rock N' Roll Tear on Thought in comparison to its predecessor All For One sports a much punkier attitude. It's fu...

Quote: James Dean Bradfield on "Sons and Fascination"

October 03, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Welsh guitar wizard James Dean Bradfield on one of his favourite albums, Simple Minds' 1981 classic Sons and Fascination :

New Release: "Doom Philosophy" by Sorrow's Path

October 01, 2014 Add Comment Edit

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, last and most, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "The 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!