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    Impact’s Music Essentials: New Wave

    Poppy Read-Pitt picks her ten favourite songs in the New Wave genre for Impact’s Music Essentials. ...
  • Film Review: Leto

    Leto (pronounced “lee-air-ta”) translates into ‘summer’ or ‘summertime’. It’s this choice of title that foreshadows what is an intrinsically reminiscent film. Based on the memoirs of Natalya Naumenko, Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto invites the audience to 1980s Leningrad where, through Natalya’s eyes, we learn about the development of the city’s lively rock...
  • LIVE: Blondie at Theatre Royal Concert Hall

    Blondie is undoubtedly one of the most influential rock bands of the last century. Their first album was released all the way back in 1976, when lead singer Debbie Harry was only twenty two years old. Time has no effect on the band it seems, with Debbie Harry at...
  • Album Review – Blondie: Pollinator

    Three years after commemorating their 40th anniversary, the iconic American band Blondie have released their 11th studio album, Pollinator. While listeners can commend the band’s ability to innovate and modernise after a hugely successful career, if the album doesn’t sound much like Blondie, that’s because largely it isn’t. Fondly recalling...
  • Music’s Fashion Moments

    Everyone knows fashion and music go hand in hand: models in music videos, singers as designer darlings. Impact takes a look at some of the most stylish music videos to date. Duran Duran- Girl Panic! If any music video screams “style” its this one. It doesn’t only feature model legends like...