• Live Review: Ed Sheeran

    The concert opened with home-grown talent Callum Burrows, better known as Saint Raymond. Having already had success over in LA with HAIM, he commanded the stage with the confidence of someone who was headlining. Accompanied by his passionate band, Saint Raymond clearly felt at home. Turning the crowd into...
  • Live Review: Hockley Hustle (19/10/14)

      After Hockley Hustle’s four year haitus, Sunday showed the city couldn’t bear to stay quiet any longer, with acts performing in every nook and cranny of Hockley available. All in the name of raising money for charity, over 400 bands, singers, rappers and DJ’s invaded the city centre. April...
  • Album Review: Kimbra- ‘The Golden Echo’

    On her 2nd LP the Melbourne based songwriter shows off a fantastic collection of indie pop songs which consistently excite through their joy and variety. The Golden Echo is a long album. It clocks in at over an hour and could have been longer, being cut down to 12...
  • Introducing: Asgeir

    A recent explosion of young electro based artists has started to create a little monotony, but Nordic project Asgeir has created a sound of his own. Iceland is undergoing a revolution and the volcanic island’s musical scene has come a long way since the days of Bjork and the...
  • Interview: Rae Morris

    After a whirlwind summer, Rae Morris was winding down with one of her last festivals of the year, Leeds Festival. She has toured with Bombay Bicycle, produced a spectacular EP and become a favourite of BBC’s music scene. Impact interviewed Rae Morris just before her headline slot on the BBC...
  • Album Review: The Drums – Encyclopedia

    It’s been two years now since we have been graced with an album from The Drums, the last of which was 2012’s dark and more developed Portamento. In that time they have gone through a few changes, the most significant being the loss of guitarist Connor Hanwick, leaving The...
  • Interview: Nico Vega

    Sunday morning is not a good slot for a festival, behind performing at a time parallel to The Arctic Monkeys (sorry Nero but was there anybody watching you?) Sunday morning performances are probably the least attended of the whole weekend. However, the bleary-eyed, slightly fuzzy-headed people that stumbled into...