Cancel the quiet weekends.

Hide the bank card.

And somebody start checking the last train home from Cardiff.

Wales has got gigs. Lots of bloody gigs. 🤘

Welcome to The Riff Report Wales Gigs & Tours Tracker, our rolling guide to rock, metal, punk, alternative, indie and other suitably noisy shows heading across Cymru.

From enormous arena productions in Cardiff to sweaty grassroots gigs in Swansea, metal carnage in Buckley, alternative nights in Newport and major tours heading north to Llandudno and Wrexham, there is plenty happening across Wales.

And we’re not just talking about a couple of shows either.

Spiritbox. I Prevail. Fear Factory. Creeper. Manic Street Preachers. Suede. Papa Roach. Enter Shikari. Placebo. The Darkness. Kasabian. Electric Callboy. Saxon. Megadeth. Trivium. Skindred.

Yeah.

Our wallets are absolutely knackered.

This tracker covers confirmed shows we can currently verify from September 2026 onwards. Live music calendars move ridiculously quickly, particularly at grassroots level, so new dates will continue appearing.

Right then.

Calendars out.

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🍂 September 2026

September wastes absolutely no time getting stuck in.

🎸 Friday 11 September

Inspiral Carpets + Trampolene
📍 Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff

🤘 Saturday 12 September

Megadeth UK vs Brian Maiden
📍 Fuel Rock Club – Cardiff

A tribute-band showdown bringing the sounds of two absolute metal institutions into one wonderfully ridiculous evening.

🎸 Monday 14 September

Boyce Avenue + Modern Oli
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🤘 Thursday 17 September

Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea UK Tour

Spiritbox + JINJER + Dying Wish
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Now THAT is a bill.

Spiritbox bring their arena-sized metal assault into Cardiff with JINJER and Dying Wish joining the carnage.

Expect riffs.

Expect pits.

Expect several thousand people discovering muscles in their neck they didn’t know existed.

🎸 Friday 18 September

ARKAYLA
📍 The Rockin’ Chair – Wrexham

North Wales gets in on the action with ARKAYLA heading into Wrexham.

🎸 Friday 18 September

Wing!
📍 Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff

💥 Saturday 19 September

This Is Floyd – Through The Years Tour
📍 ICC Wales – Newport

🐷 Sunday 20 September

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

With Meryl Streek + SHLUG
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

The magnificently named riff monsters roll into the Tramshed for a rescheduled Cardiff date.

Heavy. Loud. Probably slightly unhinged.

Exactly how we like it.

🔥 Wednesday 23 September

I Prevail

📍 DEPOT – Cardiff

I Prevail bringing their massive modern metalcore sound into DEPOT sounds like the sort of evening Cardiff will still be feeling the following morning.

🤘 Saturday 26 September

I AM DRUG
📍 Fuel Rock Club – Cardiff

🎸 Sunday 27 September

The Amazons
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🔥 Tuesday 29 September

Gurriers – Album Launch Show
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

September alone should probably come with a financial warning.

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🎃 October 2026

You thought September was busy?

Oh mate.

💀 Saturday 3 October

Fear Factory

📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

Industrial metal heavyweights Fear Factory hit North Wales for what should be one of the heaviest nights on the Welsh autumn calendar.

The Tivoli and Fear Factory?

That room could require structural inspection afterwards.

🎸 Monday 5 October

Yonaka
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🤘 Tuesday 6 October

Indecision
📍 Fuel Rock Club – Cardiff

🖤 Thursday 8 October

Creeper

Creeper + Calva Louise + Starbenders
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

Creeper and Cardiff have all the ingredients for a beautifully theatrical alternative-rock riot.

🎸 Thursday 8 October

Quireboys
📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

A very different flavour of rock ‘n’ roll happening up north on the same night.

🎸 Saturday 10 October

Toploader
📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

💀 Saturday 10 October

Robbed Zombie + Six Sins Till Sunday
📍 Fuel Rock Club – Cardiff

🎸 Wednesday 14 October

Cabaret Voltaire – Final UK Tour
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🔥 Thursday 15 October

The Wonder Stuff + Inspiral Carpets

📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff University Students’ Union

Two names with decades of British alternative history between them sharing one Cardiff bill.

🎸 Sunday 18 October

Transvision Vamp / Wendy James
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🎻 Thursday 22 October

The Rock Orchestra

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Rock and metal classics given the full orchestral treatment.

Big strings.

Big guitars.

Maximum drama.

🔥 Friday 23 October

Deaf Havana
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🎸 Friday 23 October

The Reytons
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

🐉 Friday 23 – Saturday 24 October

BANG! 2026

Featuring The Bug Club, GANS and more
📍 Pontio – Bangor

An important reminder that the Welsh live scene exists well beyond the M4 corridor. Bangor joins the autumn madness with two days of music.

🎸 Saturday 24 October

Reef
📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

🔥 Thursday 29 October

Tooth
📍 The Bunkhouse – Swansea

🎸 Friday 30 October

Levellers

Levellers + Ned’s Atomic Dustbin + The Meffs
📍 Venue Cymru – Llandudno

Now we’re talking.

Levellers celebrating Levelling The Land, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and The Meffs all heading to North Wales makes this one hell of an October date.

🎶 Saturday 31 October

Gentleman’s Dub Club
📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

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🔥 November 2026

November is where the Welsh calendar goes completely off the rails.

🐉 Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4 November

Manic Street Preachers + Suede

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Two nights.

Two enormous British alternative-rock bands.

And one of Wales’ greatest musical exports returning home.

The Manic Street Preachers and Suede co-headline run lands in Cardiff for consecutive nights on 3 and 4 November.

For Welsh music fans, these could be genuinely special shows.

🎸 Wednesday 4 November

GANS – The Evolution Tour
📍 The Bunkhouse – Swansea

🎸 Saturday 7 November

Courteeners

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

🤘 Saturday 7 November

Black Stone Cherry

📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff University Students’ Union

Southern-rock riffs indoors in Cardiff?

Yes please.

💀 Monday 9 November

Papa Roach – Rise Of The Roach

Papa Roach + LANDMVRKS + Sleep Theory
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Someone check whether Cardiff Arena has insurance for this one.

Papa Roach’s Rise Of The Roach tour hits Wales with LANDMVRKS and Sleep Theory in support.

We’re expecting Last Resort to be audible somewhere around Newport.

💀 Thursday 12 November

Onslaught
📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

British thrash metal hitting North Wales.

Lovely stuff.

🤘 Thursday 12 November

Juliet’s Not Dead
📍 Fuel Rock Club – Cardiff

🎻 Thursday 12 November

London Symphonic Rock Orchestra
📍 Swansea Grand Theatre

Orchestral versions of AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and other rock giants roll into Swansea.

🎸 Friday 13 November

The Undertones
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🔥 Saturday 14 November

Enter Shikari

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

One of Britain’s most unpredictable live bands taking over Cardiff Arena.

Electronic chaos.

Post-hardcore.

Massive singalongs.

Possibly several people launching themselves through the atmosphere.

🤘 Saturday 14 November

earthtone9
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🎸 Tuesday 17 November

Reverend And The Makers
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🤘 Tuesday 17 November

Mason Hill
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🖤 Saturday 21 November

Bloc Party + Interpol

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

That is an outrageous amount of early-2000s alternative nostalgia under one roof.

The two bands bring their co-headline tour to Cardiff on 21 November.

Skinny jeans may spontaneously reappear across South Wales.

🎸 Wednesday 25 November

Tyketto
📍 The Tivoli – Buckley

🔥 Wednesday 25 November

Big Special
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🎸 Thursday 26 November

Blossoms + The Royston Club
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

🎸 Thursday 26 November

Shed Seven
📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

🎸 Thursday 26 November

Midge Ure
📍 Venue Cymru – Llandudno

🤘 26–30 November

Planet Rockstock 2026

📍 Trecco Bay Holiday Park – Porthcawl

Ah yes.

A holiday park.

In November.

Full of rock fans.

What could possibly go wrong?

Planet Rockstock returns to Porthcawl for another end-of-year gathering of the rock tribe.

🎸 Friday 27 November

When Rivers Meet
📍 The Corn Exchange – Newport

🎸 Friday 27 November

Squeeze + Billy Bragg
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

🔥 Friday 27 November

Bleech 9:3
📍 Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff

🤘 Saturday 28 November

James And The Cold Gun
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🎸 Saturday 28 November

The Australian Pink Floyd Show
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

🎸 Saturday 28 November

Embrace – Celebrating 30 Years
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

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🎄 December 2026

Christmas?

Never heard of it.

We’ve got gigs.

💀 Thursday 3 December

Forever Nu – Toxicity & IOWA 25th Anniversary Special
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

Featuring tributes to the nu-metal generation including Chopsuey, Slip-NOT, A7Xperience and Propa Roach.

Baggy jeans strongly encouraged.

🎸 Friday 4 December

Swansea Sound
📍 Le Pub – Newport

🎸 Saturday 5 December

Swansea Sound
📍 The Bunkhouse – Swansea

🎸 Friday 4 December

Ocean Colour Scene + The Enemy

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

A seriously tasty British rock double-header.

🎸 Friday 4 December

Ash – 1977 30th Anniversary Tour

📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

Thirty years of 1977.

We’re choosing not to think about what that says about our age.

🖤 Saturday 5 December

Covenant – 1986–2026 Legacy UK Tour
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🖤 Monday 7 December

Placebo – 30th Anniversary Tour

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Placebo celebrate three decades with a Cardiff date focusing on material from Placebo and Without You I’m Nothing.

One for anyone who ever spent their teenage years staring moodily through a bus window.

🎸 Wednesday 9 December

The Hunna – Farewell Tour

📍 DEPOT – Cardiff

A final Welsh goodbye as The Hunna’s farewell run heads into Cardiff.

✨ Sunday 13 December

The Darkness

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Justin Hawkins and company bringing glam, riffs, ridiculous vocals and enough swagger to power half of South Wales.

🎸 Sunday 13 December

Dave Hill’s Slade
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🎸 Sunday 13 December

Belle & Sebastian
📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

🎸 Tuesday 15 December

Trevor Horn
📍 Tramshed – Cardiff

🔥 Wednesday 16 December

Kasabian + The Vaccines

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Kasabian’s Nothing Better Than This Tour hits Cardiff with The Vaccines joining the party.

That should make for one very lively pre-Christmas Wednesday.

🐉 Saturday 19 December

Florence Black

📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff University Students’ Union

Welsh heavy rock rounding off the year properly.

No Christmas jumper required.

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🤘 2027 – The Riffs Keep Coming

Think your bank account gets January off?

Absolutely not.

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❄️ January 2027

🏴‍☠️ Thursday 14 January

Alestorm

Alestorm + Battle Beast + Wizardthrone
📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

Pirate metal in Cardiff in January.

Frankly, that’s the sort of nonsense we support wholeheartedly.

💀 Friday 15 January

Wage War

Wage War + Invent Animate + Wind Walkers
📍 Y Plas – Cardiff

A seriously strong modern metalcore bill.

⚡ Wednesday 27 January

Electric Callboy

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Electronicore.

Metalcore.

Party music.

Absolute chaos.

Electric Callboy taking their arena show into Cardiff has the potential to be one of 2027’s most gloriously ridiculous gigs.

🤘 28–31 January

Winter’s End 2027

📍 Trecco Bay – Porthcawl

The Planet Rock crowd returns to South Wales for another weekend of riffs beside the seaside.

🔥 Sunday 31 January

Black Stone Cherry – The Celebrate Tour

📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

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💀 February 2027

🎸 Tuesday 2 February

DMA’S
📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

🔥 Monday 8 February

Nothing But Thieves – The Stray Dogs World Tour

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Another major alternative-rock arena show for Wales.

🤘 Saturday 13 February

Esprit D’Air
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🎸 Monday 15 February

The Classic Rock Show
📍 Venue Cymru – Llandudno

🎸 Wednesday 17 February

The Classic Rock Show
📍 New Theatre – Cardiff

Two Welsh opportunities to get your classic-rock fix.

🎹 Sunday 21 February

Rick Wakeman – The Wizard Of Prog
📍 New Theatre – Cardiff

⚔️ Tuesday 23 February

Saxon – Gods Of Thunder

📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

British heavy metal royalty coming back to Wales.

Denim.

Leather.

Air guitars.

You know the drill.

🎸 Thursday 25 February

10cc
📍 Venue Cymru – Llandudno

🔥 Friday 26 February

Cam Cole
📍 The Globe – Cardiff

🤘 Friday 26 February

Godsticks
📍 The Bunkhouse – Swansea

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🌧️ March 2027

🎸 Saturday 6 March

The Fratellis – 20 Years Of Costello Music

📍 The Great Hall – Cardiff

🪕 Friday 12 March

The Dead South
📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

🎸 Saturday 13 March

Legends Of Manchester Indie Fest
📍 Sin City – Swansea

💀 Monday 15 March

MEGADETH

Megadeth + Black Label Society + Testament

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Read that support bill again.

Megadeth. Black Label Society. Testament.

In Cardiff.

On a Monday.

Good luck getting anything productive done at work on the Tuesday.

🎻 Saturday 20 March

London Symphonic Rock Orchestra
📍 ICC Wales – Newport

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🌸 April 2027

🎸 Thursday 1 April

Francis Rossi
📍 New Theatre – Cardiff

💀 Sunday 4 April

Trivium + In Flames

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Two generations of modern metal collide when Trivium bring In Flames along for their Cardiff arena date.

That’s Easter sorted.

Chocolate afterwards.

Circle pit first.

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🌼 May 2027

🐉 6–8 May

FOCUS Wales 2027

📍 Various venues – Wrexham

One of Wales’ most important showcase festivals returns, filling Wrexham with emerging artists, established names and industry activity.

🔥 Saturday 8 May

SKINDRED – YOU GOT THIS Tour

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Newport’s finest taking over a Welsh arena.

Benji Webbe. Cardiff. Thousands of people. Newport Helicopter.

We’re already knackered just thinking about it.

🎸 Sunday 23 May

Weezer

📍 Utilita Arena Cardiff

Yep.

Weezer are coming to Wales.

Everyone prepare accordingly.

🎸 Saturday 29 May

Toby Lee
📍 The Gate – Cardiff

🔥 Sunday 30 May

The Block Party
📍 The Bunkhouse – Swansea

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☀️ July 2027

🤘 Saturday 3 July

Buckstock 2027

📍 Buckley Town FC – Buckley

Another North Wales rock gathering firmly on our radar.

🏔️ 23–25 July

Steelhouse Festival 2027

📍 Hafod-Y-Dafal Farm – Ebbw Vale

The mountain calls again.

One of Wales’ great rock traditions returns in July as Steelhouse Festival heads back to Hafod-Y-Dafal Farm for another weekend of riffs above the clouds.

Pack:

• Waterproofs
• Boots
• Sun cream
• More waterproofs
• Beer money
• Emergency waterproofs

Anyone who’s done Steelhouse knows we’re not joking.

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🐉 Wales Is Absolutely Spoilt For Live Music

Look at that calendar.

And those are only the dates announced and confirmed so far.

We’ve got massive international metal tours.

Classic rock legends.

Alternative heroes.

Welsh heavyweights.

Grassroots bands.

Tribute nights.

Festivals.

Pub-sized rooms.

University halls.

Theatres.

Holiday parks.

And arenas full of thousands of sweaty people screaming choruses together.

That is exactly why The Riff Report believes Welsh live music deserves shouting about.

Cardiff might attract plenty of the enormous tours, but venues in Swansea, Newport, Wrexham, Bangor, Buckley, Llandudno, Porthcawl and communities across Wales remain absolutely vital to the scene.

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🍺 Don’t Forget The Grassroots Venues

The massive arena shows are brilliant.

But don’t ignore the small stuff.

Places such as Fuel Rock Club, The Globe, Clwb Ifor Bach, The Bunkhouse, Le Pub, The Tivoli, The Gate and countless smaller Welsh venues are where scenes actually live.

Tonight’s band playing in front of 80 people could be tomorrow’s Download Festival headliner.

Go early.

Watch the supports.

Buy a shirt.

Grab a pint.

Tell your mates.

Keep the venues alive.

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📣 Got A Welsh Gig We’ve Missed?

This tracker will continue growing as new tours are announced.

If you’re a:

• Band
• Promoter
• Venue
• PR company
• Festival organiser
• Photographer
• Gig-goer who spends far too much time checking tour announcements

…and you’ve spotted a Welsh rock or metal show that belongs here, give The Riff Report a shout.

Grassroots shows are particularly welcome.

You don’t need pyro.

You don’t need a tour bus.

You don’t need 50,000 monthly listeners.

If you’re making noise somewhere in Wales, we want to know about it.

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⚠️ Check Before You Travel

Dates, venues, support acts and timings can change.

Always double-check the official band, promoter, ticket provider or venue information before booking travel or setting off.

Because driving two hours across Wales only to discover the gig was rescheduled is the sort of character-building experience nobody actually needs.

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🤘 See You Down The Front

2026 is finishing brutally strongly.

2027 already looks ridiculous.

And Wales continues proving that when it comes to live rock and metal, Cymru punches miles above its weight.

So choose your gigs.

Gather the troops.

Book the trains.

Destroy the bank balance.

And we’ll see you somewhere down the front.

KEEP WALES LOUD. 🐉🤘🔥

The Riff Report

Rock. Metal. Festivals. Gigs. Chaos.

Proudly independent. Proudly Welsh. Always loud.