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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 our doorstep, and we can...

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 Park atmosphere and grass” for...

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. 💥 So, grab your Warsteiner, throw...

💀 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 Sin City Swansea on Friday...

📍 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 November 2025, and if you’ve...

“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, and Abdo, Ownage Pranks was...

“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 internet did what it does...

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 this year’s lineup. Whether you're...

From Java Joy to Courtroom Drama – The Stirrer That Got Stirred Up If you ever had a cup of McDonald’s coffee in the ‘80s or ‘90s, you might remember a curious little plastic spoon – sleek, short, perfectly sized for mixing your milk and sugar. Innocent enough, right? Well, c’mon butt… this tiny utensil caused such a stir that...

Once upon a time (in the year 2000), the UK gathered around the telly to watch ten strangers locked in a house with no phone, no internet, and absolutely zero chill. And from that chaotic social experiment rose legends, memes, meltdowns and... Nasty Nick. 😈 But was he a plant? Did Big Brother peak in the noughties? And what the...

Move over, Axl. Step aside, Slash. There’s a new lineup of rock queens in town, and they’re bringing the jungle with them. 💅🎸 Bra’s N’ Roses, the ultimate all-female Guns N’ Roses tribute band, are storming the stage at Hangar 18 Music Venue in Swansea on Saturday, 23rd August 2025, and we’re here for the chaos, the riffs, and the...

"Don’t you open that trap door… You’re a fool if you dare!" 😱🌀🍄🪦🫣 🎬 The Basics Show: The Trap Door First Aired: 1984 Creators: Terry Brain & Charlie Mills Episodes: 40 glorious slices of weirdness Voiced by: Willie Rushton (yes, the legend himself) Format: Stop-motion claymation Theme Tune: An absolute banger, seared into every ‘80s kid’s brain 🔥🎶 💀 The...

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it." – Robin Williams Today, we raise a glass (and probably spill it laughing) in memory of one of the greatest comedic and dramatic talents to ever walk this weird little planet. Robin Williams would’ve turned today. And even though he’s no longer with us physically, his voice, heart,...

The end of an era on a Manchester wall. There it was. Bold. Beautiful. Blinding. A mural in Manchester that didn’t just stop traffic – it made history. “The Band With the 3 Stripes – live ’25” – painted in stark Adidas black and white, like a battle flag for every Manc, mod, and music nerd who’s ever belted out...

“Learn your ABCs, ya filthy animal!” 🅰 A is for Axe Not the smelly body spray — this is the term for your trusty six-string weapon. Whether it’s a Les Paul or a battered Strat covered in stickers and beer stains, an axe is what separates the posers from the players. 🎸🪓 🅱 B is for Breakdown When the song...