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📅 25.5.2005 | 🎮 Habbo Hotel History | 🕯️ Metal Royalty Remembered There are moments in online history that feel bigger than they have any right to. You remember where you were, what avatar you were rocking, and how your dial-up internet sounded trying to load the lobby. One of those moments? That legendary Ozzy Osbourne meet and greet in...

By The Riff Report Crew | In tears with a pint in hand 🍻😭 There are moments in rock history that feel like lightning in a bottle. And then there are people – icons – who are the lightning. Four such thunderbolts once walked (or stomped) this Earth: Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Chester Bennington, and Keith Flint. 🤘 We lost...

1. Led Zeppelin 🎤 Genre: Hard Rock / Blues RockThe hammer of the gods, mun. From “Stairway to Heaven” to “Whole Lotta Love,” Zeppelin laid the foundations of modern rock like a thunderous Celtic army. Bonham’s drums? Thunder. Page’s riffs? Legendary. Plant’s voice? Howling down the valleys of Eryri. 2. Queen 🎤 Genre: Rock / Glam RockA band so mighty...

From Friday, July 25, 2025, thousands of websites could be blocked in the UK under the Online Safety Act, a sweeping new law that’s set to completely change how Brits access the internet — particularly sites that feature adult or user-generated explicit content. Whether you’re casually scrolling Reddit, following spicy content on X (formerly Twitter), or visiting subscription-based sites like...

Grab your passports and your bat detectors, because there’s a new campaign soaring through the skies – and it’s got BLACK SABBATH written all over it. 🤘🛫 Fans of legendary frontman and Brummie icon Ozzy Osbourne have officially launched a petition to rename Birmingham Airport in his honour, and let’s be honest – it's about bloody time. Hundreds have already...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has spent decades claiming to “protect” artists from piracy… but somewhere along the way, they started looking less like the guardians of music and more like cartoon villains with a law degree. From suing dead pensioners to fining mums thousands for their kids’ downloads, their crusade against illegal music sharing has been so...

By Order of the Prince of Darkness Himself 🎤 “ALL ABOARD!!!” screams through the speakers. The sky darkens. Bats take flight. A pint of something suspicious fizzes over your boots. You know what time it is. 🕯️ Ozzy Osbourne didn’t just leave Black Sabbath and fade into the Brummie fog. He went solo, and for the next four decades, he...

"He never lost his roots... he was a Brummie through and through." Tuesday, July 22, 2025 – The day the volume dropped.The day the bat finally flew off into the dark.The day the world lost Ozzy Osbourne, age 76 – our beloved Prince of Darkness. News of his death broke like a thunderclap across the rock community, and within hours,...

“WE’RE GOING OFF THE RAILS ON A CRAZY TRAIN…” AND WE’RE TAKING YOU WITH US! The Riff Report is officially in mourning mode – but make no mistake, this is a celebration too. A celebration of a man who bit the head off a bat, shocked the Queen, and became the godfather of metal all while making us scream, headbang,...

We’ve got Planet Rock cranked up, tears running down our faces, and No More Tears playing like it's the end of the world, butt. Ozzy. The Prince of Darkness. The Madman. Our Bat-Biting Brummy Legend. 🦇 It’s not just music—it’s the voice that raised a thousand devil horns, soundtracked a million nights of mayhem, and made the weird kids feel...

As the bat bites back, so do we… To honour the one and only Ozzy Osbourne — the bat-munchin’, reality-bendin’, riff-screamin’ Prince of Darkness — The Riff Report is officially switching to Dark Mode. Not just for style, but as a full-blown, leather-clad, eyeliner-smudged, devil horn salute to a man who changed rock forever 🤘🦇 Whether he was barking at...

The Madman. The Godfather. The Bat-Biting Legend. When you talk about the Mount Rushmore of rock and metal, Ozzy’s there — probably carving it with his own bloody fingernails while cackling maniacally. 🦇 But now, as the final curtain starts to lower on one of the loudest, wildest, and most influential lives in music history, we’re all left feeling the...

Cream Classics Returns to Cardiff – Full Guide for Ravers, Relics & Rhythm Addicts Oi oi! Cardiff’s about to get proper nostalgic as Cream Classics returns to Tramshed on Saturday 15th November 2025, and we’ve got the lowdown for everyone still clinging to the dream that their knees can handle eight hours of dancing. Spoiler alert: they can’t. But we’ll...

“I Wanna Be Adored” – Swansea, your wish is their command! Oi oi, Swansea! 🎸 Dust off the bucket hats, zip up your parkas, and chuck on the baggiest jeans you can find – because The Complete Stone Roses are swaggering into Sin City on September 13th, and they’re bringing Madchester magic with them! 🕺💫 This ain’t just any tribute...

The Riff Report Blog | November 2025 Preview Get ready to burn, baby, burn — because iconic Irish alt-rockers ASH are making a fiery return to South Wales for one night only! 🔥 📍 Swansea Sin City📅 Sunday, 16 November 2025🎟️ Tickets from £27.50 + booking fees👉 Book now on TicketWeb 🚀 AD ASTRA TOUR HITS SWANSEA Yes butt, you...