Metal
Nottingham’s rock and metal scene started in the 1960s, when the now defunct Nottingham Boat House hosted Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and Saxon. In 1980, The Undertones played the first ever gig at the newly opened Rock City and since then, the venue has played host to the likes of Deftones, Megadeth, Nirvana and Faith [...]

With 20 venues and over 200 bands from all over the Mindlands, Sunday 25th October will be a busy and exciting day for music fans and is a great way to give to charity and see a variety of local bands. This is a list of all the bands that will be playing. However, you [...]

In 2007 The Twilight Sad produced ‘Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters,’ one of the best albums of the year, but it slipped under most people’s radar. Now they are back with ‘Forget the Night Ahead.’ The lead singer’s thick Scottish accent is used in beautiful harmony with a backdrop of hazy noise and distortion which suddenly [...]

We have The Go! Team, Los Campesinos, and now Dananananaykroyd to take overly excited music to the masses. This band have a history of going crazy, which has resulted in broken bones and their tour being postponed for several months. But they are finally back and ready to show Nottingham what they have to offer. Prepare [...]

Leeds have produced many great bands this year from Sky Larkin to The Sunset Rubdown. Currently touring with Dananananaykroyd and coming off a string of EP’s including the recent ‘The Most powerful EP in the world’ release which gained positive reviews and they are winding to take over the world. A single from their new [...]

Imagining two catholic school girls engaged in a knife fight is a difficult concept to grasp, until that is you listen to Alexisonfire. Originating from Ontario, Canada the post-hardcore quintet describe their music as, among other enigmatic imagery, an altercation between two young girls involving sharp weapons and you can kind of see their point. [...]

Bombay Bicycle Club released their first EP in 2007, and then another one the same year. Two years later and they have finally released their debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose. At their Nottingham gig Impact’s Charlotte Krol sits down and chats about, band names, their love of Reading festival [...]

So this band have been around for a while, their first album released in 2007 titled All Our Cymbals was a blend of tribal and experimental instruments and vocals that put them between Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors, but didn’t get much recognition. However, they have produced something inspiring and their tour with Bat For [...]

When LA band, HEALTH came to the Chameleon they tore down the curtains and walls of the place with their incredible sound of feedback plus more feedback. The sonic destruction feels like another language in guitar musical history which was created when Kevin Shields decided to shred ears in 1988 with Isn’t Anything and again in [...]

Impact takes a look at what is right at our front door by looking at musical societies in the University Of Nottingham. We ask President Alexander Christopher Hale to tell us a few things about High Soc, the alternative indie society that is more than just a badger is a shirt, or a bunch of people with similar musical tastes.