Ben Edge

Having recently celebrated their one-year anniversary, four-piece Brown Lion Zoo are relative newcomers to the Nottingham music scene, and yet the lads have already made an indelible mark upon local fans. Armed with an expansive range of lo-fi, melody-driven tunes, the UoN students triumphed at BandSoc’s battle of the...

TITLE: Wasp Factory AUTHOR: Iain Banks GENRE: Psychological Fiction PUBLISHER: MacMillan Publishers PUBLISHED: 1984 PAGES: 184 As the nights grow darker so does our taste in literature. Impact’s chosen book of the month is a perverse horror classic: The Wasp Factory – the controversial, arresting debut from acclaimed novelist Iain Banks. There’s something horrific...

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...

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...

A grief-stricken and beautifully honest debut from one of the most significant musicians in modern pop music. Considering the volume of mesmerising releases he’s put his name to, it’s incredible to think that Process is only Sampha’s debut album. Brimming with potential, the South Londoner first appeared back in...

Upon publishing his pivotal general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein produced a series of gravitational field equations for the great minds of the time to solve. Little did he know that the solution would predict a phenomenon that would draw in much astonishment, scepticism and confusion. This was the...