Riff Raff

ALBUM REVIEW: THE SOUP DRAGONS "HOTWIRED"

August 19, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Every big, successful band generates numerous shadow and clone bands. Sometimes one of the clones gets quite big and may even have a ret...

INTERVIEW: NODDY HOLDER & DAVE HILL, SLADE

August 17, 2018 Add Comment Edit

ANOTHER 'TRICK' IN THE WALL Twenty years after their first Number One, Slade are back, looking to new heights and a fresh bi...

Album Review: Hellwell, "Beyond the Boundaries of Sin"

May 22, 2018 Add Comment Edit

"All's well that ends Hellwell," you might well say, in the process ripping the quote from the bleeding throat of William ...

Album Review: Mumford and Sons, "Sigh No More"

May 22, 2018 Add Comment Edit

This is one CD that I've had in my collection ever since it was given to me by a promoter back in 2010. I listened to it a bit and r...

Video: Bad News & More Bad News

March 21, 2018 Add Comment Edit

This Is Spinal Tap was phenomenal because it not only captured the essence of British Heavy Metal band but also its detail. A remarkab...

VIDEO REVIEW: WHITE LION, "ESCAPE FROM BROOKLYN"

March 21, 2018 Add Comment Edit

And escape their did, to make our world a better place with really girly songs about children crying and all the shite that smacks of...

INTERVIEW: MAX VANDERWOLF & TB QUAGMIRE, NAKED SUN

March 19, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Usually flamboyant, musically extravagant — that in a nutshell is New York quintet NAKED SUN, who have their debut self-titled album o...

Interview: Anna Calvi

March 18, 2018 Add Comment Edit

English-Italian diva pens torch songs for the new millennium With her hard-to-pin-down sound, bee-sting lips and bottomless blue ey...

Interview: Carl Barat

March 16, 2018 Add Comment Edit

In 2010, at the height of my career as a music journalist, round about the time I was turning down an offer to interview Adele becaus...

Album Review: Simple Minds, "Big Music"

March 16, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Ever since their fledgling days in late 70's Glasgow, Simple Minds have always had a restless quality at the heart of their music. ...

TOP 50 BEST-SELLING MUSICIANS IN USA (BY ALBUM SALES)

March 16, 2018 Add Comment Edit

Here are the top-50 best selling artists in the USA by albums sold. British artists are in bold . 1. The Beatles ....178 million un...

Album Review, Manic Street Preachers, "Know Your Enemy"

November 26, 2017 Add Comment Edit

After years of promising to fulfil their potential, Welsh rockers, the Manics finally came through with a great album in 1998's ...

Revenge Recommends: "Remember Me" by British Sea Power

November 09, 2017 Add Comment Edit

This song from British Sea Power's 2003 debut album The Decline of British Sea Power is ostensibly about the aging process, but ...

Album Review: "Achtung Baby" U2

November 06, 2017 Add Comment Edit

Another chapter of history is about to take shape as U2 serve up their first studio album since 87's Joshua Tree and 88's Rattl...

Maxi Single Review: Kishidan "One Night Carnival"

November 04, 2017 Add Comment Edit

I only ever watch the Japanese pop charts to see the videos of cute girl singers. But, just occasionally, among all the derivative po...

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!