Maddy Hay

Happy International Women’s Day! The Impact Music team are celebrating by listening to their favourite songs by women, for women. Here’s a selection from our playlist along with some lyrical highlights… (to listen to the full thing, head to our Spotify!). Your Best American Girl – Mitski “Your mother...

March is upon us and spring (finally) approaches! With sunny evenings just around the corner, Nottingham was treated to a healthy dose of luminous Chamber-Pop, in the form of visits from Laurel and Toothless (of Bombay Bicycle Club fame). Here’s what Impact Music thought… Laurel, Rescue Rooms Red Room...

You’ve seen it on the backs of buses; the brash talking bass thumping Nottingham bred duo Sleaford Mods have returned with album number four – English Tapas, and they’ve only gone and teamed up with Rough Trade to produce it! If I’m being honest, I stuck the album on...

Phenomenal. I didn’t think Stormzy would let me down or anything, but I didn’t expect this level of excellence. Gang Signs & Prayer is a masterpiece, possibly the best UK album I’ve heard in the past 5 years, I haven’t felt this strong about an album since To Pimp...

Not much seems to happen in February. As part of the student calendar, it’s sort of a non-month that flies by so quickly that we’ve barely recovered from January exams before we have to wake up, smell the pancakes and ready ourselves for March deadlines. However, living in Nottingham...

Canadian rapper Drake’s highly anticipated world tour has finally begun. After selling out most of his UK dates within minutes, he added numerous extra dates between January and February. Despite many of those dates being rescheduled for the second time, Drake was sure not to disappoint UK fans. In...

We’re warming back up to our gig-going now that exams are well and truly forgotten. Last week, Nottingham saw visits from Kate Nash and Wilkinson. Here’s what Impact Music thought… Kate Nash (Rescue Rooms, 11/02/17) Kate Nash delivers a performance of style evolution, girl power and straight talking. Gone...