Daisy Foster

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....

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...

Leeds Festival, it’s never going to be the warmest festival and it is usually overshadowed by Reading. However, armed with a few layers of thermals, Impact sought out the charms of the festival located in a field just off the M62. There is little disagreement that Arctic Monkeys stole the show, performing...

As much as I love The Gaslight Anthem, I can’t quite get over the feeling that they were carefully designed as the ultimate guilty pleasure for guys like me. It’s not that they are bad, but their particular brand of nostalgic longing for a mythical golden age of Americana...

In the midst of the often laughably misguided wave of seemingly relentless 90’s nostalgia currently invading every aspect of popular culture, an exciting new batch of bands have arrived on the DIY punk scene to breathe new life into a dying genre. In the wake of the underground success...