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Alright you beautiful riff merchants… if you’re reading this with one eye open, a head like a dropped amp, and a vague memory of shouting along to a song you don’t even like… solidarity, butt.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Alright you beautiful riff merchants… if you’re reading this with one eye open, a head like a dropped amp, and a vague memory of shouting along to a song you don’t even like… solidarity, butt.
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Picture this, butt. Palm trees swaying. Sunshine glinting off the lagoon. A Disney resort soundtrack humming away like nothing in the world could ever be sad again.
Now imagine John Lennon casually signing the legal death certificate of The Beatles.
Yep.
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Now imagine John Lennon casually signing the legal death certificate of The Beatles.
Yep.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Picture this, butt. Palm trees swaying. Sunshine glinting off the lagoon. A Disney resort soundtrack humming away like nothing in the world could ever be sad again.
Now imagine John Lennon casually signing the legal death certificate of The Beatles.
Yep.
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Now imagine John Lennon casually signing the legal death certificate of The Beatles.
Yep.
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Some people write the songs.Some people stand under the lights.And then there are the quiet architects behind the curtain, nudging legends toward immortality without ever demanding the spotlight.
One of those figures has sadly left the building.
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One of those figures has sadly left the building.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Some people write the songs.Some people stand under the lights.And then there are the quiet architects behind the curtain, nudging legends toward immortality without ever demanding the spotlight.
One of those figures has sadly left the building.
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One of those figures has sadly left the building.
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Yes, Really. And No, You’re Not Imagining It.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Yes, Really. And No, You’re Not Imagining It.
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Greek prog/tech death metal legends. 8 albums deep. Zero messing about.
Alright butt, listen up 🤘Athens’ own Acid Death have thrown down a very grown-up, very serious call to arms.
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Alright butt, listen up 🤘Athens’ own Acid Death have thrown down a very grown-up, very serious call to arms.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Greek prog/tech death metal legends. 8 albums deep. Zero messing about.
Alright butt, listen up 🤘Athens’ own Acid Death have thrown down a very grown-up, very serious call to arms.
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Alright butt, listen up 🤘Athens’ own Acid Death have thrown down a very grown-up, very serious call to arms.
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Leave it to Slipknot to kick over another table while everyone else is still arguing about the menu.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Leave it to Slipknot to kick over another table while everyone else is still arguing about the menu.
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WITH KORN SCREAMING “ARE YOU READYYYYY” INTO YOUR SOUL 🤘🔥
Forget fireworks. Bin off Auld Lang Syne. And respectfully tell the BBC countdown to do one.
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Forget fireworks. Bin off Auld Lang Syne. And respectfully tell the BBC countdown to do one.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
WITH KORN SCREAMING “ARE YOU READYYYYY” INTO YOUR SOUL 🤘🔥
Forget fireworks. Bin off Auld Lang Syne. And respectfully tell the BBC countdown to do one.
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Forget fireworks. Bin off Auld Lang Syne. And respectfully tell the BBC countdown to do one.
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Right. Stop scrolling. Cancel your plans. Phone your mum.Because this image has just dropkicked British snack culture straight into a new dimension.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Right. Stop scrolling. Cancel your plans. Phone your mum.Because this image has just dropkicked British snack culture straight into a new dimension.
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The Lost Venues, the Surviving Rooms, and How the City’s Sound Grew Teeth 🎸🏴
Swansea has never been a quiet city. Even when the venues vanished, the amps unplugged and the doors got boarded up, the noise never really left.
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Swansea has never been a quiet city. Even when the venues vanished, the amps unplugged and the doors got boarded up, the noise never really left.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Lost Venues, the Surviving Rooms, and How the City’s Sound Grew Teeth 🎸🏴
Swansea has never been a quiet city. Even when the venues vanished, the amps unplugged and the doors got boarded up, the noise never really left.
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Swansea has never been a quiet city. Even when the venues vanished, the amps unplugged and the doors got boarded up, the noise never really left.
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Where Welsh riffs were born, broke strings, and kept going anyway
If Swansea had a volume knob, Derrick’s Music would be the shop that snapped it clean off and lobbed it into the sea. This isn’t just a retailer. It’s a cultural landmark. A proving ground.
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If Swansea had a volume knob, Derrick’s Music would be the shop that snapped it clean off and lobbed it into the sea. This isn’t just a retailer. It’s a cultural landmark. A proving ground.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Where Welsh riffs were born, broke strings, and kept going anyway
If Swansea had a volume knob, Derrick’s Music would be the shop that snapped it clean off and lobbed it into the sea. This isn’t just a retailer. It’s a cultural landmark. A proving ground.
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If Swansea had a volume knob, Derrick’s Music would be the shop that snapped it clean off and lobbed it into the sea. This isn’t just a retailer. It’s a cultural landmark. A proving ground.
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Before smartphones. Before broadband. Before the algorithm decided you were really into air fryers and Viking tattoos… there was BBC Ceefax.
And it was quietly brilliant.
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And it was quietly brilliant.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Before smartphones. Before broadband. Before the algorithm decided you were really into air fryers and Viking tattoos… there was BBC Ceefax.
And it was quietly brilliant.
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And it was quietly brilliant.
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For nearly three decades, The Jerry Springer Show wasn’t just daytime TV. It was a weekly experiment in how far civilisation could bend before snapping. Chairs flew. Secrets spilled. Dignity packed its bags and left the building by episode three.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For nearly three decades, The Jerry Springer Show wasn’t just daytime TV. It was a weekly experiment in how far civilisation could bend before snapping. Chairs flew. Secrets spilled. Dignity packed its bags and left the building by episode three.
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Right from the jump this one smacks like an amp cranked past eleven and kicked into the pit. No bonkers ballet or CGI babies here — WAR is a sonic battlecry wrapped in grit, grit and more grit.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Right from the jump this one smacks like an amp cranked past eleven and kicked into the pit. No bonkers ballet or CGI babies here — WAR is a sonic battlecry wrapped in grit, grit and more grit.
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Right. Picture the scene.
Grey skies. Cold hands. That unmistakable post-Christmas fog where nobody knows what day it is, your bank account is still crying, and the only sensible mission is a beer run 🍺🤘
So off we trot. Hoodies up. Wallets braced.
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Grey skies. Cold hands. That unmistakable post-Christmas fog where nobody knows what day it is, your bank account is still crying, and the only sensible mission is a beer run 🍺🤘
So off we trot. Hoodies up. Wallets braced.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Right. Picture the scene.
Grey skies. Cold hands. That unmistakable post-Christmas fog where nobody knows what day it is, your bank account is still crying, and the only sensible mission is a beer run 🍺🤘
So off we trot. Hoodies up. Wallets braced.
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Grey skies. Cold hands. That unmistakable post-Christmas fog where nobody knows what day it is, your bank account is still crying, and the only sensible mission is a beer run 🍺🤘
So off we trot. Hoodies up. Wallets braced.
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There’s heavy… and then there’s drag-you-under-and-don’t-let-go heavy.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There’s heavy… and then there’s drag-you-under-and-don’t-let-go heavy.
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Right then, butt.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Right then, butt.
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Grief, loyalty, loss — and the most radical refusal in rock history 🤘🖤
On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on the planet.
Frontman of Led Zeppelin.Stadiums flattened. America conquered.
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On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on the planet.
Frontman of Led Zeppelin.Stadiums flattened. America conquered.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Grief, loyalty, loss — and the most radical refusal in rock history 🤘🖤
On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on the planet.
Frontman of Led Zeppelin.Stadiums flattened. America conquered.
theriffreport.co.uk/27/12/2025/r...
On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on the planet.
Frontman of Led Zeppelin.Stadiums flattened. America conquered.
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Leftovers in the fridge, telly glowing, chaos paused. This is the one, mun.
Boxing Day is a strange, beautiful limbo. The turkey’s gone cold, the Quality Street tins are already 80 percent purple ones, and no one knows what day it is anymore.
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Boxing Day is a strange, beautiful limbo. The turkey’s gone cold, the Quality Street tins are already 80 percent purple ones, and no one knows what day it is anymore.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Leftovers in the fridge, telly glowing, chaos paused. This is the one, mun.
Boxing Day is a strange, beautiful limbo. The turkey’s gone cold, the Quality Street tins are already 80 percent purple ones, and no one knows what day it is anymore.
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Boxing Day is a strange, beautiful limbo. The turkey’s gone cold, the Quality Street tins are already 80 percent purple ones, and no one knows what day it is anymore.
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Right, butt… hold onto your tights because the multiverse has officially glitched.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Right, butt… hold onto your tights because the multiverse has officially glitched.
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Album Review | The Riff Report 🤘
Right then butt, strap in. This one hits like a leather-jacketed headbutt in a thunderstorm.
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Right then butt, strap in. This one hits like a leather-jacketed headbutt in a thunderstorm.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Album Review | The Riff Report 🤘
Right then butt, strap in. This one hits like a leather-jacketed headbutt in a thunderstorm.
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Right then butt, strap in. This one hits like a leather-jacketed headbutt in a thunderstorm.
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Today we raise a pint, a fist, and probably the volume knob to celebrate Shane Greenhall – riff architect, groove commander, and one of the key engines powering the Crows’ relentless rise 🖤🎸
From sweat-soaked club floors to roaring festival fields, Shane’s
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From sweat-soaked club floors to roaring festival fields, Shane’s
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December 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today we raise a pint, a fist, and probably the volume knob to celebrate Shane Greenhall – riff architect, groove commander, and one of the key engines powering the Crows’ relentless rise 🖤🎸
From sweat-soaked club floors to roaring festival fields, Shane’s
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From sweat-soaked club floors to roaring festival fields, Shane’s
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Right then butt, tighten your boots and hide the weak lager, because Misery Goblin are here to drag Irish metal back into the mud, teeth-first, snarling and loving every second of it. This is no polished, posh prog nonsense.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Right then butt, tighten your boots and hide the weak lager, because Misery Goblin are here to drag Irish metal back into the mud, teeth-first, snarling and loving every second of it. This is no polished, posh prog nonsense.
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Alright butt, Christmas has staggered off into the distance clutching a leftover turkey sandwich, the telly’s still shouting about sales, and your bank balance is already in a pit of despair… which can only mean one thing.
It’s Boxing Day, mun.
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It’s Boxing Day, mun.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Alright butt, Christmas has staggered off into the distance clutching a leftover turkey sandwich, the telly’s still shouting about sales, and your bank balance is already in a pit of despair… which can only mean one thing.
It’s Boxing Day, mun.
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It’s Boxing Day, mun.
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“The Australian music industry is parasitic” – and they’re done 💔🔥
Well this one’s gone down like a dropped amp on concrete, butt.
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Well this one’s gone down like a dropped amp on concrete, butt.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“The Australian music industry is parasitic” – and they’re done 💔🔥
Well this one’s gone down like a dropped amp on concrete, butt.
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Well this one’s gone down like a dropped amp on concrete, butt.
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In 1987, English-Irish punk-folk rabble-rousers The Pogues did something quietly revolutionary. They took Christmas music, dragged it out of the cosy living room, sat it on a pub step at 2am, and forced it to admit that not everyone is having a magical time.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In 1987, English-Irish punk-folk rabble-rousers The Pogues did something quietly revolutionary. They took Christmas music, dragged it out of the cosy living room, sat it on a pub step at 2am, and forced it to admit that not everyone is having a magical time.
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