• Live Review: Southern, Rescue Rooms (09/02/15)

    Supporting Hudson Taylor on their UK tour, the Belfast sibling duo kickstart their set with ‘Shout It’, an energetic track immediately showcasing their intricate vocal harmonies and accomplished instrumental work. Punctuated with Blues-style guitar riffs and solos redolent of The White Stripes, the pair deftly catch the crowds’ attention...
  • Album Review: Drake – ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’

    This is an exciting time for hip-hop fans; releases from the likes of Lil Wayne, Kanye, Wu-Tang, Kendrick Lamar and Lupe Fiasco are coming thick and fast, and then out the blue; a brand new album from ChampagnePapi himself. Over airy trap flavoured Boi-1da beats Drake drops the sung...
  • Live Review: Pond, Rough Trade Nottingham (18/2/15)

    ‘Look at us, do we look like we’ve ever been late for anything in our lives?’. An hour after they were meant to, the band take to the stage guilt free. In their defence they have a point, a punctual Pond would have come as a shock. Although they’re...
  • Album Review: Peace – ‘Happy People’

    Despite having already been treated to half of the ten songs on their new record Happy People, question marks still remained over Peace. Are they just the Nineties pretenders as the cynics claim? Would they fall victim to the archetypal second album clichés of making everything sound bigger without...
  • Live Review: Black Honey, Rescue Rooms Red Room (3/2/15)

    Brighton four-piece Black Honey kick their UK tour off in Nottingham with unsurpassable confidence and songs that speak to every dissatisfied 20 something living in Britain today. Aside from having the most fabulous hair in rock since Robert Smith, lead singer Izzy Bee is one of the most exciting...
  • Live Review: The Staves, Rescue Rooms (04/02/15)

    To inherit the crown of Brit folk-rock in a world after Mumford and Sons revivalism is a big burden to carry. The Staves return from a stay in the United States and kick off a new tour in our very own Nottingham, they don’t just emulate what they heard out there but...
  • Live Review: Peace, The Bodega (05/02/15)

    The B’town band Peace are touring the country playing intimate shows, and with 3 sold out nights at Nottingham’s own Bodega, Impact magazine went to experience some of those famous Peace vibes. Coming onto stage to meet a packed out Bodega, Peace opened with ‘Higher than the sun’ from...