Music Festivals

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: 🏆 “CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FOUND PETE!” 🏆...

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 isn’t just a fancy bit...

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 for the mosh pit in...

By The Riff Report Blog Oi oi, rockers! 🤘🎸 If your ears are still ringing and your liver’s still protesting, that can only mean one thing — MAID OF STONE FESTIVAL absolutely melted our faces off again! Set ablaze by thunderous riffs, raging amps, and lager-fuelled madness, this weekend was a proper inferno of metal and mayhem — and we...

Welcome to the wild Welsh mountainside, butt! Where the wind howls like Lemmy’s ghost and everything smells faintly of cowpat and anticipation 🐄🔥 This ain’t just another festival — this is Steelhouse, perched on a blooming mountain, built by a team of maniacs, miracle workers, and metalheads. And guess what? We’re peeling back the curtain for The Riff Report to...

📍 Catton Park, Derbyshire | 🗓️ August 7–10, 2025 Sharpen your horns, dig out your battle jackets, and start sacrificing your last clean band tee – because BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2025 is nearly upon us, and we are not ready in the best possible way. 🖤 The BOA faithful know what’s coming:🎸 Wall-to-wall riffs🥵 Circle pits in 30-degree heat (or...

Date: Thursday 3rd JulyLocation: Blackweir Live, CardiffLine-up: Slayer, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon, HatebreedTheme of the Day: Viking raids, mosh pits, and absolute carnage. 🧨 HATEBREED – OPENING THE PIT OF DOOM First up, Hatebreed came swinging like a dragon with a hangover. Jamey Jasta stormed the stage with a mission: ignite the crowd. And mun, did he deliver. 💥 From...

🌭 The Ultimate Guide to Guts, Grub & Guttural Growls at Slayer’s Blackweir Fields Gig – 3rd July 2025 C’mon butt, Slayer ain’t just bringing the riffs to Cardiff… they’re bringing the munchies too. And trust us, when you’re headbanging your skull into oblivion at Blackweir Fields in Bute Park, you’re gonna want something more than just air and adrenaline...

📍 Cardiff. Blackweir Fields. July 3rd. The world’s angriest thrash band is back – and if you've got a spare twenty quid, you could be screaming along to “Raining Blood” live and loud this week. Yes, really. Slayer, the band that once made entire arenas feel like the gates of hell had opened, are tearing through Cardiff for one of...

C’mon butt, Day 2 of Blackweir Live was a lush emotional rollercoaster drizzled in ‘90s nostalgia, raw lyrics, and some proper Canadian sass 🍁. The legend that is Alanis Morissette took to the stadium stage – and let’s just say, Cardiff felt every damn word. From whispered verses to wailing choruses, this wasn’t just a concert… it was a collective...

Well, Glastonbury 2025 has wrapped up – and what a belter it was! From The Prodigy melting minds on the Other Stage 🔥 to surprise sets in the woods, and yes, even Neil Young scaring off half the Pyramid crowd like some apocalyptic folk prophet… it’s safe to say it was one for the books. But now, as we crawl...

“Diolch, Glasto! You’ve been lush!” 🎤 Glastonbury 2025 was a sonic rollercoaster of mud, magic, and mayhem. From legendary icons to surprise guests and viral moments that had TikTok in a meltdown, we’ve rounded up the must-watch tracks that absolutely slayed Worthy Farm this year. Whether you were front row in a bucket hat or watching from your sofa with...

A Firestarter’s Legacy Ignites the Other Stage – Glastonbury 2025 🖤 You could feel it in the air before they even stepped on stage. That buzz. That anticipation. That tribal thump in your chest, pulsing like an electric heart ready to burst. And when The Prodigy finally hit the Other Stage at Glastonbury 2025, they didn’t just play a gig....

A Saturday Headliner That Left the Field (and the Fans) Divided Glastonbury. The holy grail of music festivals. The place where legends are born, careers are crowned, and magic happens beneath Somerset skies. It’s where Bowie mesmerised, Beyoncé redefined, and McCartney had the boomers crying into their cider. 🏕️🎶 So, when it was announced that Neil Young — one of...

A Rock ‘n’ Roll Romance Amid the Madness Glastonbury’s got a knack for pulling out iconic moments, hasn’t it? One minute you’re dodging stray glitter cannons in a mosh pit, the next you’re getting emotional over a love story playing out live on stage. And this year, it was none other than Sir Rod Stewart who delivered one of the...