• Sleuth @ The Nottingham Playhouse

    Funny, tense and in places downright surprising, Nottingham Playhouse’s revival of Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth is full of twists and turns that will leave you yearning for more even after the curtain falls. A masterful manipulation of tension and intrigue, this play is one of the best I have ever...
  • Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree / One More Time With Feeling

    This album is bad for your health. I know that because it’s all I’ve listened to since it was released last Friday and I’ve been nothing but melancholy since. There are a few precedents for material this mournful in popular music: Van Morrison’s ‘TB Sheets’, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Famous Blue...
  • Stranger Things: Your New Favourite Creepy Eighties Supernatural Show

    More evidence that the internet is taking over the world: Netflix has delivered yet another excellent, binge-worthy original series in the form of the supernatural show Stranger Things. The series revolves around a number of unusual events that occur over the course of a few days in Hawkins, a...
  • Album Review: Wretch 32 – Growing Over Life

    Wretch 32’s title for his third album is fitting, to say the least. As opposed to his previous album Black and White, Wretch 32 seems more confident in himself as an artist and the fact that he is able to reach this level of maturity whilst maintaining his unbelievable lyrical...
  • Review: T in the Park Festival 2016

    This year Impact headed to the highlands of Scotland for annual music event, T in the Park. Here are our thoughts on 5 of the most impressive bands from across the weekend… Blossoms Considering an early stage time and impending storms, Blossoms did well to attract such a large...
  • The Glorious Return of GBBO!

    After a delayed start due to the Olympics, The Great British Bake Off has finally returned to our screens in all of its quaint countryside glory. Not much has changed from any of the previous seasons: Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood continue as judges (because if they didn’t, there...
  • Review: Frank Ocean – Blonde / Endless / Boys Don’t Cry

    The long-awaited second studio album from the legendary Frank Ocean is here at last. It’s been four years since his first masterpiece, but the artist makes up for it with a seventeen-track album – Blonde – and two visuals, video album Endless and a zine, Boys Don’t Cry. It has been a...