The Revenge of Riff Raff

Interview: Jean Michel Jarre

October 23, 2010 1 Comment Edit

SWATCH OUT! JEAN MICHAEL JARRE OVER EUROPE At a press conference announcing his first ever concert tour, Jean Michael Jarre, the French syn...

The Fly Column: Axl X Film Review

October 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

The new film by 'Turn-around-bitch-I-wanna-park-my-bike' Lee. Described as "The Angriest Man in America," Axl, called...

The Fly Column: The Dead Pool

October 23, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Every month in The Fly column we hope to run a dead pool, a list of those rock n' roll celebrities who are most likely to pop their pro...

Photo: Loud Park 2010, Day One

October 17, 2010 Add Comment Edit

An "audio photo" of the final three acts at day one of Loud Park 2010. This reveals that Korn was slightly more noisy than Stone ...

Photo: Kiss

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Kiss at a London press conference in 1996. Photo Mark Liddell

Interview: Adam Levine, Maroon 5

October 09, 2010 1 Comment Edit

Maroon 5 get to the soul of pop When a band has a massive first album, as Maroon 5 had with Songs About Jane , it can be the start of an in...

Photo: Lady Gaga

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Lady Gaga at Yokohama Arena, 17th of April, 2010. Photo: Colin Liddell

Interview: Mike Howe & Duke Erickson, Metal Church

October 07, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Mike Howe and Duke Erickson Note:- The first page of this interview is missing. ........playing so fast," opines Duke. "For a w...

The Fly Column: Coverdale and Page - the True Story

October 04, 2010 Add Comment Edit

Scene: an old abandoned castle next to Loch Ness, Scotland. A stretch-limo pulls up, and David Coverdale gets out. David [consulting Hamm...

Interview: Richard Archer, Hard-Fi

October 02, 2010 Add Comment Edit

British rock band Hard-Fi lives up to the hype Obsessed with the need for short-term profits rather than long-term gains, the British...

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!