• Live Review: Dot To Dot Festival 2016

    It was a bank holiday Sunday. The sun was shining. The birds were singing. Obviously, there was no better way for the Impact Music team to spend the day than exploring 2016’s Dot to Dot Festival. Established in Nottingham in 2005, D2D has since spread to both Bristol and...
  • Live Review: InMe, The Venue (23/05/2016)

    A grey Monday evening in Derby kicked off a short tour for InMe, thankfully things were considerably more exciting inside the Venue (that is its actual name). The mainstays of the British rock scene set out to prove why they are such a dominant live force, and have a...
  • Preview: Sziget Festival 2016

    Sziget might well be the closest to freedom any festival experience could possibly offer. Based on its own idyllic island in the middle of the gorgeous Danube, Sziget provides festivalgoers with a week of pure wonder. The festival consists of seven days of some of the best music 2016...
  • Preview: Dot To Dot Festival 2016

    Established in Nottingham back in 2005, Dot To Dot Festival now spreads across the inner-city venues of Manchester and Bristol as well, all in order to platform some of the most exciting, upcoming artists from across the world. Having previously featured acts like The xx, Florence & The Machine and...
  • Preview: Download Festival 2016

    Returning to the hallowed grounds of Donington for its fourteenth year, the UK’s biggest rock and metal festival looks set to become a three-day haven for everything heavy this June. Boasting the strongest line-up yet across its four stages it is undeniable that there is something for all fans...
  • Live Review: Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Bodega (24/04/2016)

    Climbing the sacred steps of The Bodega, for possibly the final time, set the tone for an emotionally charged and intimately open night. A rapidly growing crowd greeted Sam Airey with great delight as he graced the stage. Quickly gaining the respectful audience’s full attention Airey impressed from the...
  • Interview: Benjamin Francis Leftwich

    Announcing his second album After The Rain, soulful singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich has returned from a three year hiatus with a massive nationwide tour, most of which has already sold out. We managed to catch up with him before his fantastic headline set at Nottingham’s Bodega at the start...