Support Independent Rock & Metal Journalism โ Keep The Riffs Coming! ๐ธ๐ฅ๐
Right then, riff loversโฆ whatโs occurring?
The Riff Report has always been about one thing: celebrating the music, bands, festivals, venues and glorious lunatics who make the rock and metal community what it is. ๐ค
From sweaty little grassroots venues and bands playing their first proper shows to enormous festival stages, album releases, interviews, gig reviews, festival guides, photography and all the ridiculous stories we stumble across along the way โ we bloody love this scene.
And now, you can become an even bigger part of it.
Welcome to The Riff Report Patron Memberships! ๐๐ค
This is your chance to support independent, proudly Welsh rock and metal journalism while unlocking a few extra goodies along the way.
No massive media corporation.
No suits sitting around a boardroom deciding whether a guitar solo has enough “engagement”.
Just The Riff Report โ powered by riffs, festival fields, questionable amounts of caffeine and the occasional emergency Greggs. ๐๐ฅ
๐ธ RIFF ROOKIE โ FREE
ยฃ0 โ Absolutely Nowt
Everybody starts somewhere, mun.
Riff Rookie is our completely free membership and your ticket into The Riff Report community.
You don’t need to throw money at us to be part of this madhouse. Rock and metal should be about community, and that’s exactly what we’re trying to build.
๐ค Riff Rookie includes:
- ๐ธ Free Riff Report membership
- ๐ฐ Rock & metal news
- ๐ช Festival updates
- ๐ค Gig and album coverage
- ๐ฌ Community access
- ๐ Membership of the growing Riff Report riff army
Cost: ยฃ0
Yep.
FREE.
More money left for gigs, merch and overpriced festival chips. Result. ๐๐
๐ฅ RIFF SUPPORTER
ยฃ3 Per Month
Fancy chucking a few quid into the virtual Riff Report petrol tank?
The Riff Supporter tier is for readers who enjoy what we’re doing and want to help keep independent music coverage alive.
Your support helps us continue covering bands, gigs, festivals and the grassroots scene without turning the website into an advertising apocalypse.
๐ฅ You’ll get:
- Everything included with Riff Rookie
- โค๏ธ Direct support for independent Welsh music journalism
- ๐ฐ Early access to selected Riff Report features
- ๐๏ธ Selected Patron-only festival and gig posts
- ๐ฌ Supporter recognition within the community
- ๐ค Riff Supporter status
And, naturallyโฆ
Our eternal gratitude.
Possibly accompanied by an imaginary Greggs sausage roll. ๐
๐ท ยฃ3 per month
Less than plenty of gig venue pints.
Probably.
Depends where you’re drinking. ๐บ
๐ค RIFF REBEL
ยฃ5 Per Month
Right.
Now we’re turning the amps up.
Riff Rebels are the readers who want to get a little closer to the madness behind The Riff Report.
You’ll help support our independent coverage while getting additional content from gigs, festivals, interviews and everything else happening in Riff Report land.
๐ค Riff Rebel membership includes:
- Everything from Riff Rookie and Riff Supporter
- ๐ค Exclusive interviews and bonus content
- ๐ธ Additional gig and festival photography
- ๐ช Behind-the-scenes festival coverage
- ๐ณ๏ธ Vote on selected future features, lists and reviews
- ๐ Occasional competitions and giveaways
- ๐ฅ Riff Rebel member status
๐ท ยฃ5 per month
Basically, you’re buying The Riff Report an imaginary pint every month.
And unlike your mate Dave, we promise not to disappear when it’s our round. ๐๐บ
โก RIFF LEGEND
ยฃ10 Per Month
Okayโฆ
You absolute bloody legend.
This is the big one.
Riff Legend is for those who want to seriously support what we’re building here at The Riff Report.
Your membership helps us travel to gigs and festivals, discover new bands, create original features, produce interviews and continue shining a massive Welsh dragon-shaped spotlight on the rock and metal community. ๐๐ฅ
โก Riff Legends receive:
- Everything included in the previous membership tiers
- โก First look at selected major Riff Report features
- ๐ค Extended interview content where available
- ๐ฐ Patron-exclusive articles
- ๐ช Festival diaries and behind-the-scenes madness
- ๐ณ๏ธ Opportunities to help choose upcoming Riff Report content
- โค๏ธ Your name on the Riff Report Wall of Legends if you’d like it there
- ๐ค Riff Legend membership status
And most importantlyโฆ
You’ll know you’re directly helping independent rock journalism keep doing what it does best:
Supporting the bloody music.
๐ท ยฃ10 per month
Maximum support.
Maximum riffs.
Zero apologies. ๐ค๐ฅ
๐ WHY SUPPORT THE RIFF REPORT?
The Riff Report is proudly independent.
We’re not some enormous entertainment empire with offices overlooking London and a meeting scheduled to discuss the quarterly performance of Metallica memes.
We’re a Welsh rock and metal publication built because we genuinely bloody love music.
We want to cover the massive bands everyone knows.
But we also want to be standing inside a tiny venue watching a new band absolutely demolish a room containing 80 people.
We want to tell you what’s happening at festivals.
We want to interview the bands.
We want to photograph the gigs.
We want to celebrate grassroots venues.
We want to discover tomorrow’s festival headliners before they’re tomorrow’s festival headliners.
And we want to have a laugh while doing it.
Because rock journalism doesn’t need to sound like somebody swallowed a music degree.
Sometimes a riff is just absolutely filthy.
And somebody needs to say it. ๐๐ค
๐ช WHERE DOES YOUR SUPPORT GO?
Supporting The Riff Report helps towards the everyday costs involved in running and growing an independent music publication.
That can include things like:
๐ธ Website and hosting costs
๐ Travelling to gigs and festivals
๐ธ Photography and content creation
๐ค Interviews and original features
๐ช Festival coverage
๐ฐ Keeping the website running and improving it
๐ฅ Supporting more grassroots and emerging bands
Ultimately, every membership helps us create more Riff Report content.
More bands.
More gigs.
More festivals.
More interviews.
More ridiculous rock stories.
And almost certainly more mud. ๐ง๏ธ๐
Because apparently Britain hasn’t discovered the concept of a dry festival field yet.
โค๏ธ THE MAIN RIFF REPORT ISN’T GOING BEHIND A MASSIVE PAYWALL
This bit matters.
Patron memberships aren’t about suddenly locking everything away and demanding a tenner before you’re allowed to discover who’s playing Download.
The Riff Report will continue producing free rock and metal content.
Patron membership is about giving people who enjoy what we do the opportunity to support it โ with some extra content and perks as our way of saying:
Cheers, butt. You’re a legend. โค๏ธ
Simple as that.
๐ธ CHOOSE YOUR RIFF LEVEL
๐ธ Riff Rookie โ FREE
Join the community and come along for the ride.
๐ฅ Riff Supporter โ ยฃ3/month
Help support independent Welsh rock journalism and unlock some additional content.
๐ค Riff Rebel โ ยฃ5/month
Get closer to the action with bonus content, photography, voting and more.
โก Riff Legend โ ยฃ10/month
Maximum support for The Riff Report with our biggest collection of Patron benefits.
Whatever level you choose โ even if you stay completely free โ you’re part of this community.
Every read.
Every share.
Every comment.
Every band recommendation.
Every person who tells their mate:
“Have you seen this mad Welsh rock blog?”
It all helps. ๐คโค๏ธ
๐ BUILT IN WALES. POWERED BY THE ROCK COMMUNITY.
The Riff Report started with a simple idea:
Celebrate rock and metal without taking ourselves too bloody seriously.
That hasn’t changed.
We’re going to keep shouting about bands.
We’re going to keep standing in muddy festival fields.
We’re going to keep supporting grassroots music.
We’re going to keep chasing riffs.
And we’re going to keep building this weird, wonderful little community one metalhead at a time.
So whether you’re a Riff Rookie, Riff Supporter, Riff Rebel or full-blown Riff Legendโฆ
Welcome aboard.
Grab your battle jacket.
Get the horns up.
And somebody stick the kettle on.
We’ve got riffs to report. โ๐ค๐ฅ
KEEP THE RIFF REPORT LOUD.
KEEP IT INDEPENDENT.
KEEP THE RIFFS COMING.
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