• Hang the DJ: Make Your Freshers’ Week Live

    Don’t fancy Crisis or Ocean this week? Here is Impact Music‘s guide to all the exciting live events taking this week to make your Freshers’ Live. Audacity (USA) / Bruce and Carl / Losing Sleep – JT Soar Monday 22nd September If you’re a fan of bands like Fidlar and The...
  • Album Review: The Wytches – ‘Annabel Dream Reader’

    Few debut records offer the maturity and depth that can be found in The Wytches’ long-awaited first LP, Annabel Dream Reader. Although the band jokingly described their sound online as “surf doom”, this is partially accurate. For the most part, the album is a vicious affair warped with psychedelic...
  • Live Review: Sleaford Mods, Spanky Van Dykes (14/09/2014)

    After a year where everyday has seemed to result in more success, Sleaford Mods return to Nottz to check up on where they started. Acknowleding the Nottingham scene with true respect the band were preceded by a line-up of the city’s finest acts. For a band who describe themselves...
  • Festival Diaries: Latitude

    Tucked away in the flat lying pastures of rural Suffolk, I almost stumbled upon Latitude by surprise as I was driving there in the sweltering summer afternoon. Bunting and banners lined the tight country roads, and soon we saw groups of backpack-clad festival goers making their way into the...
  • Festival Diaries: Glastonbury

    Friday I got my ticket for Glastonbury for the first time this year by working in the car parks, Alas, I slept in on ticket release day. As a car park worker by day I was only available in the evenings and missed some big acts. Even so, the event...
  • Review: Blissfields Festival 2014

    Located just outside of Winchester is Blissfields, a small festival that has a community feel like no other. It’s the only festival where they openly say ‘it never rains at Blissfields’ and it’s the only festival where you can walk around and have a conversation with anyone or anybody....
  • Album Review: Christian Fitness – I Am Scared of Everything That Isn’t Me

    When I went to see Against Me! on Halloween 2007, the newly formed Future of the Left opened. Three guys in costume walked out on stage to a half empty back room upstairs in the old Birmingham Academy, berated the audience for not dressing up for the occasion and then...