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Wednesday 28th September 2011

Impact Introduces. September ’11

Nottingham University Man-Choir From Barbershop to Britten, Man-Choir is an all new, all male choir starting this year. Without auditions but with mandatory drinks afterwards, singers of any ability and experience are welcome to come along on Thursday’s 7-9 sessions. Man-Choir takes inspiration from artists as diverse as…

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Monday 26th September 2011

Best of British Festivals

We may not be blessed with great weather, but Britain has definitely got some of the best festivals in the world. Who says you can’t look good in wellies anyway? ENGLAND: Glastonbury Following two days of excessive alcohol consumption and revelry, the Friday at Glastonbury saw many looking…

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Saturday 17th September 2011

A Beginner’s Guide to The Ramones

The Ramones exploded out of New York’s CGBG’s punk scene in the mid-70s with a ground-breaking, raw sound that changed the world of popular music forever. Well, that’s enough platitudes. Simple fact, they were tighter and wrote better songs than The Sex Pistols, and were smarter than The Clash.…

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Tuesday 6th September 2011

Truck Festival 2011- Review

Now in its fourteenth year, Oxfordshire’s home-grown premier music festival, set in the green pastures of Steventon Village, returned this July with an expanded site, a more diverse crowd and a solid line-up with the likes of Bellowhead, Tribes, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, The Go! Team, Gruff Rhys and…

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Tuesday 6th September 2011

Review: Bombay Bicycle Club- A Different Kind of Fix

Bombay Bicycle Club truly are hard workers of the indie craft it seems. They have ploughed away and now produced three albums in three years, making their mark on the scene with upmost buoyancy and professionalism. Their previous two records, ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them…

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Tuesday 23rd August 2011

Tragedy at Pukkelpop 2011: A Ticket Holder’s View.

Impact’s Dan Adams was at this year’s Pukkelpop, a Belgian music festival, before disaster struck. He reported of the storm which lead to chaos on the site of the Festival. I’ve never seen a storm come in that quickly. The sky turned ominously, the wind whipped up, and…

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Friday 24th June 2011

Take That @ City of Manchester Stadium 3/6/2011

Whilst many Nottingham students were preparing for the fun and frivolities of Summer Party, I was indulging in my guilty pop pleasure by welcoming the nation’s favourite man-band to the stage in the City of Manchester Stadium. Amid over a whopping 55, 000 people, the level of screaming…

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Friday 10th June 2011

Album Review: Wild Beasts – Smother

Wild Beasts are a band that have never been shy of singing about sex. Much like the great Romantics before them, they have previously delivered a frank and beautiful take on the sordid business of promiscuity and lust. However, on Smother we see Wild Beasts incorporate not only…

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Friday 10th June 2011

Album Review: Metronomy – The English Riviera

With their third LP, Metronomy not only return with a new rhythm section in bassist Gbenga Adelekan and drummer Anna Prior, but a new sound which is a triumphant departure from the nu rave stylings of 2008’s ‘Nights Out’. Whereas their last offering was made for the dance…

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Friday 10th June 2011

Every Shade Of Blue

Blues music is rooted in African-American history and believed to have originated in the mid 1800s, when the sharecroppers sang back and forth to each other whilst working in the cotton fields of the Deep South. A lot of early material was never recorded but the first known…

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