By The Riff Report – Where time travel’s optional, but air guitars are mandatory 🕶️ From Excellent to Bogus… and Still Brilliant? If Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was like chugging SunnyD while cramming for history class, then Bogus Journey is its goth cousin who discovered death metal and philosophy. Gone are the historical hijinks […]
By The Riff Report – History never rocked this hard 🤘 🕶️ So, what’s occurring? What do you get when you mix time travel, air guitar, and two of the most lovable morons ever to grace a movie screen? You get Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, mun – a film so gloriously daft it might’ve […]
By The Riff Report – where the amps are loud, and the brain cells optional You ever watch a movie so gloriously stupid that you feel more intelligent after watching it? That’s Airheads, butt! 💥 A film that asks the all-important question: What if a struggling rock band held a radio station hostage just to […]
A Download Festival Quest for the AgesBy The Riff Report 🏆🖤🤘 Picture this: It’s Day 3 of Download Festival 2025. You’re sunburnt, sleep-deprived, slightly hungover (or still drunk?), and stumbling through the arena like a gremlin with a Greggs addiction. You check your shorts pocket for your phone… and instead you pull out THIS: 🏆 […]
The Steelhouse Golden Ticket is a special edition pass given to the first 1,000 people who purchase any type of weekend ticket for the next Steelhouse Festival. Whether you’re camping under the stars or glamping with a flask of Penderyn whisky, if you’re one of the first 1,000 – boom, you’ve got one. But this […]
Well folks… today is a good day. Scratch that — today is a flipping EPIC day. Because nestled in my inbox like a golden riff from Slash himself was the email that gets every rocker’s heart thumping harder than a double kick drum. 💌 “Your tickets for Steelhouse Festival have been dispatched.” Say it louder […]
By The Riff Report’s unofficial mountain goblin correspondent 😈🏔️ You’ve seen the graft. You’ve heard the chaos. But now we’re digging through the glorious afterbirth of a rock ‘n’ roll mountain festival to uncover the truly weird, the heartwarmingly daft, and the tales whispered in the wind through soggy tents and empty Strongbow cans 🍻💀 […]
A thunderous farewell to the madmen who built the riff-filled temple we all worship in. Thank you, you beautiful bunch of riff-summoning lunatics. 🖤 You gave us chaos. You gave us metal. You gave us the kind of proper noise that shook the cobwebs out of every teenage skull from Birmingham to bloody Brazil. You […]
C’mon butt! The pride of Cwmaman, Stereophonics, are back home in Cardiff for two massive nights at Principality Stadium – and here’s your ultimate guide to making the most of it, from setlist spoilers to sneaky pint prices. 🍺🎤 📅 GIG DATES When? Where? 🎟️ TICKETS Still available (just about) via: Prices:Standing – ~£85–£100Seating – […]
We’ve covered the sound. We’ve covered the size. Now we’re tackling the real mosh pit of pain — arena food and drink prices.Let’s dive into the UK’s loudest venues and see who’s robbing you blind and who’s (kind of) playing fair. 💰🥤 🎸 1. AO Arena – Manchester 🎸 2. The O2 Arena – London […]
📍 Full Address: Hangar 18 Music Venue50 Plymouth StreetSwanseaSA1 3QQWales, UK Tucked just behind the city centre, this place is basically Area 51 for riffs. Unmarked doors, concrete exterior, and an inside full of face-melting decibels. You don’t find Hangar 18 — it abducts you. 🛸 🔊 WHAT’S OCCURRING AT HANGAR 18? This isn’t just […]
📍 Full Address: The Bunkhouse Bar & Music Venue11 Park StreetSwanseaSA1 3DJWales, UK Just a two-minute sprint from Wind Street (or crawl, depending how many snakebites you’ve had). It’s technically underground — and spiritually even deeper. 😈 🔥 WHAT’S OCCURRING AT THE BUNKHOUSE? Imagine a rock dive bar had a baby with a rehearsal room […]
📍 Full Address: Patti PavilionVictoria Park,Mumbles Road,SwanseaSA1 4PQWales, UK Sat just off the seafront in Victoria Park, The Patti is more than just bricks and mortar — it’s a relic, a time machine, a Wales-shaped heart with speakers attached. 🖤 🏛️ A VENUE WITH SOUL (AND FEEDBACK) The Patti Pavilion ain’t just a music venue […]
📍 Full Address: Tramshed CardiffClare Road,Grangetown,CardiffCF11 6QPWales, UK Just a ten-minute strut from Cardiff Central Station, nestled in Grangetown’s old tram depot — hence the name, ya clever sausage. 😏 🚋 WHAT’S OCCURRING AT TRAMSHED? Tramshed is where old-school grit meets modern gig glory. This place is huge but intimate, brutal but beautiful, and every […]
📍 Full Address: Fuel Rock Club5 Womanby StreetCardiffCF10 1BRWales, UK Right in the beating heart of Cardiff’s Womanby Street, the unofficial strip of rebellion, riffs, and regretful kebabs. You can smell the history (and Jäger) in the bricks. 🍻🏴 🎸 WHAT’S OCCURRING AT FUEL? Cardiff’s one and only dedicated rock and metal venue, Fuel is […]