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Bank Holiday Sunday, 24th August @ Tramshed, Cardiff Cardiff! Pack away your waterproofs and whip out the glitter – 'cos the Rum & Reggae Festival 2025 is bringing pure island energy to the valleys, and it's already looking spicy! 🌶️🌞 This Bank Holiday Sunday, the legendary Tramshed will transform into a mini Caribbean paradise, overflowing with rum-fuelled vibes, infectious rhythms,...

By The Riff Report – Where Tribute Bands Are Worshipped Like Metal Gods Ever found yourself stomping around the kitchen, yelling “DU! DU HAST!” into a wooden spoon, wishing Rammstein would just announce a UK date that doesn’t involve selling a kidney for a standing ticket? Same, butt. 😅 Well, stop setting fire to your toaster for pyro effects and...

Get ready to boogie, bop, and belt your heart out in the heart of Cardiff! 🕺🎤 Welcome to your ultimate guide to what’s still cooking at The Big Nite Out for the rest of 2025 – hosted at none other than the legendary Earl Haig Memorial Hall in Whitchurch, Cardiff! If you’ve not been yet, you’re missing out, butt –...

The Music of Prince at Tramshed, Cardiff – Saturday 17 January 2026By The Riff Report Cardiff fam, get ready to party like it’s 1999… for the last time! 😭💔 After 21 phenomenal funk-fuelled years, New Purple Celebration – The Music of Prince is taking its final bow, and they’ve saved a lush farewell for the Welsh capital. On Saturday 17th...

💷 £5.99?! C’mon butt, that’s a bargain AND a half! This is not a drill. 60 golden, crispy, succulent nuggets of pure joy all huddled up in a bucket for under six quid? That’s what we call value for belly. 😋 Now imagine this: you're halfway through a hungover Sunday, your stomach's making sounds like a Slipknot soundcheck, and you...

Blues fans, Fleetwood Mac lovers, and guitar purists – listen up! One of the finest tributes to the legendary Peter Green is heading back on the road, and they’re about to bring that sweet, soulful, goosebump-raising blues to a stage near you. 🤘🎶 “Man of the World: The Music of Peter Green” is more than just a show – it’s...

🎤 “Ladies and gentlemen… The Beatles!” Well, almost. If you’ve ever dreamt of stepping back into the whirlwind of the 1960s, dodging hysterical fans and screaming “Help!” as the Fab Four tear up the stage, then Swansea’s about to become your Magical Mystery Tour stop. The Bootleg Beatles – the world’s premier Beatles tribute band – are landing at the...

By The Riff Report Blog – where the weird meets the wonderful and Thom Yorke floats through stained glass windows 😱🕊️ Hold onto your existential dread and get your robes ready, butt – because 2026 is getting a bit holy! 🙌An Evening of Radiohead is officially touring cathedrals across the UK and Ireland, and it might just be the most...

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 three pints of cider, this...

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 your eyebrows off. 😎 Whether...

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 so big you need two...

⚡ 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 for blending riot grrrl rage...

“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 to the enigmatic Slipknot site,...

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 the foreseeable, Joel took a...

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 could you want?! Expect live...