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Well… that escalated quickly, mun. 😈After absolutely rinsing their album celebration show at Circuit, Kingston, Skindred have gone and done the most Skindred thing possible — added even MORE chances to catch them live and electric during the release week of their brand-new album You Got This 🤘 If you missed out first time round, fear not. Benji and the...

Stop the clocks. Spill the beer. Alert the group chat.Green Day are officially heading to Super Bowl LX, and honestly… this is wild in the best possible way 🤯🔥 Yes, that’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool taking their snarling, fist-punching punk anthems to the biggest sporting stage on the planet. From sweaty clubs to global stadiums, from...

A deeper historical dive Pirate radio didn’t just bend the rules of British broadcasting — it smashed them with a crowbar, rewired the system, and dared the establishment to catch up. Long before legal stations embraced youth culture, underground broadcasters were already shaping how the UK would listen, speak, and move to music. ⚓ The 1960s: Why Pirate Radio Had...

Help keep the riffs loud, the coffee strong, and the chaos rolling Right then, butt — let’s talk about something gloriously unglamorous but absolutely essential to keeping The Riff Report Blog alive, kicking, and shouting about bands at irresponsible volumes. 🔥 Running an independent Welsh rock & metal blog isn’t just gigs, pits, and late-night copy filed on a dying...

Some gigs are loud.Some gigs are historic.And then there are moments so audacious they permanently bend the DNA of music. September 1969 was one of those moments. Inside London’s sacred musical coliseum — the Royal Albert Hall — Deep Purple weren’t just tuning up. They were preparing to do something that, at the time, felt borderline illegal: plug rock amps...

Muse axe shows due to “unforeseen circumstances” – and the fallout is brutal, butt 🎪💥 This one’s hit like a dropped amp off the main stage. Two UK festivals have cancelled outright after Muse pulled out of their headline slots, citing the ever-mysterious “unforeseen circumstances”. No replacement. No reschedule. Just refunds, stunned inboxes, and a lot of fans staring at...

Steel yourselves, metal maniacs, because this one’s proper biblical. A brand-new film titled The Ballad of Judas Priest has officially been locked in for its world premiere in February 2026, and it’s promising to show Judas Priest in “all its metal glory.”No soft focus. No sanitised legends-only edit. Just amps, sweat, leather, and steel. C’mon butt — that alone is...

Don’t You (Forget About Me) 🎸🔥 Hold onto your denim jackets, butt — Black Stone Cherry have gone and done something very tasty. The Kentucky riff-slingers have just dropped their own take on Don’t You (Forget About Me), the legendary anthem originally delivered to the world by Simple Minds — and it absolutely slaps. This isn’t some gentle, piano-led nostalgia...

This one lands heavy, butt. A sobering reminder that even the most joy-fuelled, nostalgia-drenched nights in rock can brush up against some very dark corners of reality. An 18-year-old has been sentenced after plotting a bomb attack targeting the opening night of Oasis’ long-awaited reunion tour in Cardiff. The plan, according to court proceedings, was inspired by the Southport attack,...

Somewhere between a decapitation, a geyser of fake blood, and a cosmic middle finger to genre rules, GWAR have gone and done it again. This time, the Scumdogs of the Universe have wrapped their spiked gauntlets around Pink Pony Club by pop’s current glitter-cannon queen Chappell Roan — and somehow turned it into a triumphant, blood-splattered anthem of outsider joy...

Every few years, the same question bubbles up from festival fields, pub debates, Facebook comments, and slightly drunk uncles in Queen T-shirts: “Why haven’t Queen ever played Glastonbury?” And every time, Brian May calmly — and very firmly — shuts it down. No rumours. No “maybe one day.” No “never say never.” Just a flat-out nope, unless Glastonbury fundamentally changes...

Birmingham forged heavy metal. Ozzy Osbourne unleashed it on the world. 🤘🔥 There are cities that host music… and then there’s Birmingham, which straight-up invented a genre in a cloud of factory smoke, detuned riffs, and glorious chaos. Out of that industrial grind rose one man who didn’t just sing heavy metal — he became it. That man? Ozzy Osbourne...

Right then, butt — this one’s all about atmosphere. Candlelight Concerts are rolling into Swansea, transforming one of the city’s most iconic buildings into a glowing sea of candlelight for a night of live music that hits you square in the feels. No towering speaker stacks. No blinding screens. Just musicians, melodies, and the kind of warm flicker that makes...

Another sacred temple of live music is temporarily dimming the lights, pulling the amps, and putting the kettle on for the builders. 🏗️ The legendary Half Moon in Putney — a pub so soaked in music history it practically hums when you walk past — has officially closed its doors for a major revamp. And yeah… this one stings. 🏛️...

Strap in, butt, because the long-rumoured Ozzy Osbourne biopic has officially shuffled out of the “yeah, maybe one day” pile and into this is actually happening territory. Casting has moved from pub-table fantasy booking to real-world decisions, and the actor set to portray the Prince of Darkness himself has already been chosen. And here’s the juicy bit… 🧠 Jack Osbourne...