The Revenge of Riff Raff

Preview: KT Tunstall

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Suddenly, Scottish singer-songwriter is a hit 'Girl with a guitar' – what does that s...

Preview: Gary Moore 2010

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There's something mean and misshapen about Gary Moore, both physically and musically. With...

Interview: Lemmy & Wurzel, Motorhead

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Despite the collapse of the tour, the Heads' Lemmy and Wurzel remain unrepentently optimistic...

INTERVIEW: DAWN RICHARDSON, 4 NON-BLONDES

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The Quirky Bigger, Better, Faster, More! is hitting the right mark on both sides of the Atlantic. ...

The Fly Column: Fly/ Nirvana T-Shirt Shock!

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Following their stunning set on the MTV Awards, where they came off second best in a dramatic pu...

Interview: Kieran Webster "The View"

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You're 19 or 20 and already people expect you to be a role model. This is the situation fa...

Interview: Mark "the Shark" Shelton and Bryan "Hellroadie" Patrick, Manilla Road

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First of all, Marshabaloosh is the evil deity that makes you stub your toe, step on a nail, ...

Album Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd "The Last Rebel"

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To some Lynyrd Skynyrd are rollicking country rock with 'real' songs and anthems about, ...

Interview: Stuart Adamson, Big Country

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DIE HARD It's been a long time coming but it seems that Big Country have finally d...

Preview: Soul Asylum

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NONE BUT THE GRAVE Soul Asylum are best known for 1988's Hang Time LP, a bristling coll...

Album Review: Dread Zeppelin, "Un-Led-Ed"

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A Led Zep covers album? Hmmm... but there's a little bit more to it than that. Un-Led-Ed ...

Album Review: Poison "Native Tongue"

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Native Tongue is a progression of sorts, with new guitarist Richie Kotzen contributing a welcom...

Revenge Recommends: "Electric Man" by Rival Sons

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Great bluesy rock. Don't worry about the rather meaningless lyrics - just some guy getting...

Interview: Grant Richardson, Slide

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SOLID ROCK Slide are a classy young band who play an accomplished brand of bluesy rock. Th...

Lady GAGA Without Her 'Slap' Might Make You GAG

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On stage she is a chameleon-like icon of potent and powerful feminine imagery, channeling the vo...

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!

About REVENGE

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 80s and 90s. A genuine working class rock mag, written and edited in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, it was just too R n’R for its own good, falling behind more trainspotterly publications like Q, Kerrang, and Mojo. This website is an archive and kind of shrine to the writing of its greatest writers, who heroically defy the forces that destroyed the once mighty magazine by continuing to write about music, or at least listen to it through their shattered eardrums.