Cardiff, are you ready for a kind of magic? Because The Bohemians – hailed as “The World’s Most Exciting Queen Tribute” – are bringing thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening) to the Cardiff Christmas Festival! ⚡🎄 Whether you’re a die-hard Queen fanatic or you just like yelling “Galileo!” at the top of your lungs after […]

Welcome to the loudest, greasiest, most leather-clad corner of the UK festival calendar – the Rock & Blues Custom Show! Held every year at Pentrich in Derbyshire, this beast of a weekend is part biker rally, part rock festival, and all-out mayhem. Think roaring engines, tattoo sleeves, denim vests, and enough guitar solos to melt […]

Why does Malaysia get fry heaven while we get the crumbs, mun? Brace yourselves, fellow carb crusaders — for McDonald’s has truly broken our hearts this week 💔 Somewhere far away, in a glorious, greasy paradise known as Malaysia, McDonald’s is serving XXL fries the size of a toddler’s torso. Yup, a bucket of fries […]

⚡ Swansea, brace yourselves! Skating Polly are heading your way, and they’re not tiptoeing in quietly — they’re crashing through the doors of Sin City on October 8th, 2025 with a punk-fuelled fury you won’t forget anytime soon. 🤘 This isn’t your average Tuesday night gig, butt. This is Skating Polly, the Oklahoma-born trio known […]

“Worse forwards than backwards”? Try “worse when your site crashes and nobody gets what’s going on.” Slipknot fans were tamping this weekend after a mysterious countdown clock on the band’s cryptic teaser site 742617000027.net hit zero… and then? Absolutely. Bugger. All. 😵‍💫 🕒 THE COUNTDOWN TO… CONFUSION? Since late June, Maggots worldwide had been glued […]

He’s the Piano Man, the Uptown Guy, the living legend who gave us decades of bangers and bottles of red and white. But at 76, Billy Joel’s hit a bit of a bump in the road – or rather, a slip. Literally. In February 2025, during what turned out to be his final gig for […]

Listen up, Swansea! Put down your lukewarm Carling and grab your fanciest beer-drinking flannel because The Rock & Hammer Ale, Cider & Craft Festival is smashing back into Hangar 18 like a hungover Viking with a thirst for chaos! 🛠️🍺 WHAT’S OCCURRING THEN? 🤘 A festival of booze, bands, and bad decisions – what more […]

HOT UNDER THE COLLAR TOUR 2025With special guests Junkyard Drive🎸🔥🦘 Oi oi, Cardiff! Ready for a night of sweat, riffs, and Aussie chaos? Because The Lazys are storming into The Globe on 5th September, and they’re not coming quietly. These Aussie hard rock hellraisers are bringing their “Hot Under The Collar” European tour straight to […]

Yes, this is real life. No, we can’t believe it either. Just when you thought the Oasis reunion chaos couldn’t get any madder — after five nights of anthems, scraps on “Gallagher Hill,” and resale tickets costing more than your nan’s mortgage — some absolute legend has listed a plastic Pepsi bottle filled with “Heaton […]

Ahhh Germany – land of bratwurst, beer steins the size of your head, and riffs heavier than a tank rolling through the Black Forest. If there’s one country that truly gets metal, it’s our Teutonic cousins. From leather-clad legends to modern-day pit-starters, German heavy metal doesn’t just slap – it blitzkriegs your face off. 💥 […]

💀 SWANSEA!! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK!? 💀 If you’ve ever cranked up “Ace of Spades” in your car, air-guitared to “Sweet Child O’ Mine” in your bedroom, or sang “We Will Rock You” at full pelt down Wind Street at 1am… then brace yourselves, because the Monsters of Rock LIVE ‘25 is crashing into […]

📍 The Globe, Cardiff – 2nd November 2025🎟️ Get Tickets Now! Hold onto your crab claws and prepare for robo-shenanigans – Evil Scarecrow are back, and they’re dragging their glorious madness to Cardiff this November! 🔥 The kings of absurd, theatrical metal are bringing their Premature Obsolescence Tour to The Globe, Cardiff on Sunday 2nd […]

“Tyrone, Buk Lau, Abdo… where the hell are you bois?!” 🕵️‍♂️🔍 There was a time – a glorious, slightly unhinged time – when YouTube prank calls ruled the internet, and at the centre of that madness stood Ownage Pranks. From awkward fast-food orders to scammers getting verbally bodied by characters like Tyrone, Buk Lau, Rakesh, […]

“From the LBC to the Liberty – Swansea’s gone full Doggystyle and we are NOT OK.” 📢 BREAKING: Snoop Dogg is now a part-owner of Swansea City Football Club.Yes. You read that right.No, you’re not hallucinating off leftover festival vape pens.Yes, this is real life. And within approximately 4.2 seconds of the news dropping, the […]

Get Ready to Headbang on the Mountain! What’s occurring, rockers? Steelhouse Festival 2025 is almost upon us, and The Riff Report has got the ultimate soundtrack to your tent-pitching, beer-sipping, air-guitaring mountain mayhem! 🏕️🍻🎸 We’ve dug through the riff vaults and pulled together this official Steelhouse 2025 Spotify playlist, featuring bangers from every band on […]