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“Swansea is the graveyard of ambition.” – and also, apparently, the best bloody place to blow up a Portaloo full of drugs. WHAT’S OCCURRING, YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARDS? Right then, c’mon butt… let’s get one thing straight – Twin Town isn’t just a film. It’s a full-throttle fever dream soaked in piss, petrol, and Super Furry Animals. Released in 1997, directed...

Sunburnt, hungover, covered in glitter and mud, and still finding plectrums in places we daren’t mention – The Riff Report Crew has officially made it back down the mountain. Steelhouse Festival 2025? Proper lush, mun. But also… absolutely feral. 😵‍💫 Let us walk you through what the hell just happened – once we finish scraping the mud off our Docs...

Once upon a time, before the bus lanes and coffee chains took over, there was a sacred strip of nightlife chaos, a neon-lit battlefield of sticky floors, VK-fuelled bravery, and legendary bad decisions… Welcome to The Kingsway, Swansea – our dearly departed dancefloor of dreams. 💃🔥 At The Riff Report, we’re all about celebrating the loud, the proud, and the...

There are rock festivals. There are Welsh rock festivals. And then there is Steelhouse. A festival perched high above the South Wales valleys at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, where the views are magnificent, the road up is mildly terrifying, the weather is permanently plotting something and thousands of rock fans willingly haul themselves onto a mountain every summer because apparently we all...

The Riff Report Blog - Chaos in the Cables Edition ⚡📡 Well, butt… if you thought things couldn’t get worse after porn sites started demanding your ID like a dodgy bouncer at a Llanelli nightclub, think again. Now the actual internet is waving the white flag in parts of the UK — and no, we’re not joking. Openreach has confirmed...

🗓️ April 26, 1975 – July 26, 2021 | Written by The Riff Report 🤘 “The faster you hit, the harder it hurts.” That could’ve been Joey Jordison’s personal mantra. A drumming phenom. A masked legend. A one-man wrecking crew behind the kit who reshaped what heavy metal drumming could be. And today, we raise the horns and a tear-stained...

Festivals don’t just appear fully formed like some mystical tented city in a field. Nah, they’re built pint by pint, riff by riff, and often by a gang of slightly mad mates with big dreams. That’s the story of Kendal Calling – the little Cumbrian bash that grew from a 900-capacity party in a park to a 40,000-strong beast of the British festival calendar....

By The Riff Report Blog | July 25, 2025 Ozzy Osbourne – the Prince of Darkness, the Bat-Biting Godfather of Metal, the man who made chaos a career – is gone. And while fans are mourning across the globe, lighting candles, spinning Blizzard of Ozz, and whispering “Sabbath bloody Sabbath” into the void… others are booting up eBay faster than...

C’MON BUTT, IT’S HAPPENING! The tents are out, the beers are chillin’ (ish), and the riffs are calling – The Riff Report Blog have officially rolled up to Steelhouse Festival 2025 like a convoy of caffeinated rock gremlins. 🖤 We’ve made it up the mountain, through the madness of Merthyr traffic and at least three arguments about which turning to...

📅 Effective from: July 25, 2025 📜 Law responsible: Online Safety Act 🔐 Welcome to: The Age of Verified Bonking Well, that’s it. The days of anonymously sneaking a “quick browse” through your favourite “hub” are officially over. Thanks to the UK’s new Online Safety Act, anyone who wants to access ahem “adult entertainment” now needs to verify their age...

A Riff Report Blog Post Full of Nostalgia, Rarity, and Potential Riches 📀🔥🤘 You ever stumble across an old CD in your attic, look at the cover, and go “Blimey, I forgot I even had this”? Well, guess what – that little silver disc might be worth more than your first car. Seriously. In the mad world of music collectors,...

By The Riff Report Blog There’s a certain kind of silence that falls over the squared circle when a wrestling legend passes on. It’s not just the echo of boots no longer stomping the mat, or the absence of roaring promos—it’s the stillness of knowing a piece of your childhood has just walked off into the sunset. Or in this...

The Prince of Darkness has always drawn a crowd — but this time, it’s not for a gig. It’s for something far more heartfelt. 🥀 As Birmingham opens a public Book of Condolence for Ozzy Osbourne, fans from across the UK (and beyond!) are descending on the city that birthed metal to pay their respects to one of the most...

🗓️ Posted: July 24, 2025✍️ By The Riff Report Blog Team🎤 @theriffreportuk “WHATCHA GONNA DO… WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD NO MORE?” The wrestling world – and pop culture at large – has been rocked to its very core today, as news breaks that Hulk Hogan, WWE Hall of Famer and one of the most recognisable figures in the history of...

…Wait, what? HERESY! 😱 When you think of Metallica riffs, the automatic response is: Hetfield. Hetfield. More Hetfield. The man is a walking down-pick machine with wrists made of pure titanium. But what if we told you there are riffs — real, certified bangers — that weren’t written by James Hetfield? 😳 Cue the Lars gasp. Cue the fanbase meltdown....