Well butt, the internet’s at it again – and this time it’s roped in Spinal Tap and REO Speedwagon for a bit of cheeky chaos. 🤘🔥 It all started with a painfully awkward moment at Coldplay’s recent gig at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. Picture this: the Kiss Cam sweeps over the crowd and lands on […]
When you picture a rock star, you see the penthouse, not the pawn shop. 🎸💰But behind the flashy guitars, private jets, and champagne-soaked hotel rooms, there’s often a mountain of unpaid taxes, dodgy managers, and spending habits that make a Vegas stag do look tame. Here’s a list of 20 rock legends who once had […]
A Night of Mystical Mac Magic at The Bunkhouse – Friday 29 August 2025 📍 The Bunkhouse Bar & Music Venue, Swansea, SA1 3DJ🕘 Doors: 9:00PM🎟️ Tickets: £12 advance / £15 on the door ✨ Fleetwood Mac Fans, This One’s For You! ✨ If you’ve ever danced barefoot in your kitchen to Gypsy or screamed […]
From scrappy indie upstarts in tiny pubs to arena-conquering riff merchants, the 2000s were lush for British music. Britpop had fizzled, nu-metal was having a weird moment, and MySpace was the new radio. In the midst of it all, UK bands were belting out anthems, burning down the charts, and giving us all something to […]
By The Riff Report Team – blowing the lid off backstage gossip since forever 🤘 🚨 “Extreme Weather” or Extremely Sus? What’s Occurring? Steve Miller, the Joker, the Midnight Toker, and certified dad-rock icon, is in the middle of a PR thunderstorm – and we don’t just mean the kind with lightning bolts. Earlier this […]
Why spend £20 on a soggy Domino’s when you could literally fly to Italy and eat the real thing? No, you haven’t had one too many Red Bulls, mun — this is the internet’s latest dose of budget travel madness, and it comes with a side of marinara sauce. That’s exactly what travel content creator […]
Forget Wonderwall. This is WonderWILD. 😎 If you’ve got tickets to see Oasis on their long-awaited return (or you just fancy yelling “CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL” with 300 other sweaty strangers), then you need to know about the Old School Indie afterparties. We’re talkin’ unofficial, off-the-wall, Britpop and indie banger blowouts in both North and Central […]
Maid of Stone Festival 2025 – Saturday Review The Good, The Bad & The Bloody Ridiculous After Friday’s explosive mix of monster riffs and portaloo horrors (read: Tidy Times & Toilet Terrors if you missed it), we were hopeful – cautiously optimistic, like a metalhead in white trainers on a muddy hillside – that Saturday […]
Saturday, July 19, 2025 – Cardiff Castle, WalesBy The Riff Report – where the tears are real and the riffs are righteous 🤘 🌧️ THE SKY OPENED, THE EMO HEARTS DID TOO Cardiff Castle – a fortress of ancient stone and modern bangers. Saturday night saw a homegrown emotional onslaught as Funeral for a Friend […]
“It’s not just fast… it’s flippin’ collectible!” Thrash metal has never gone out of style – it just got faster, heavier, and more obsessively collected. Across boot fairs, record shops, car boots in the Midlands and Discogs rabbit holes late into the night, British metalheads have been hoarding these classics like gold. But which albums […]
By The Riff Report Blog – sponsored by absolutely no one because we’re also skint So… guess what you can do in the UK now? No, it’s not affordable housing or functional trains. It’s better… you can now buy a takeaway and pay it off in instalments. Yes. Installments. As in, “Split your £17.49 dirty […]
“History teaches us nothing…” – except how to absolutely destroy a historic venue with post-hardcore anthems and a tidal wave of nostalgia. 😅 Yes, you heard right: Funeral for a Friend – the Welsh legends who helped define a generation of eyeliner-smudged, emotionally-charged rockers – are returning for a massive outdoor headline show at Cardiff […]
The most legendary eyeliner in rock just triggered the UK’s funniest comment section Alice Cooper is coming to Cardiff’s Utilita Arena, and while Ticketmaster’s post was all business—“Don’t miss your chance to see Alice Cooper”—the Facebook comment section said: “Hold my snake, I’ve got jokes.” Let’s be honest. When you slap a zoomed-in photo of […]
If your idea of a tidy time involves 50 toms, 20 cymbals, and a rotating riser, then c’mon in – we’re about to deep-dive into the largest, loudest, most ludicrous drum kits in the history of rock and metal. 🤘 This is a tribute to the mad scientists of rhythm – drummers who looked at […]
A thunderous farewell to the godfather of metal is coming to the big screen — and it’s going to melt your face off. ⚫ “I’m going f***in’ nowhere… except the cinema.” – Ozzy, probably. Well, here we are. The end of an era — but make it loud. Mercury Studios has dropped a monster announcement: […]